- Docente: Giorgio Sartor
- Credits: 6
- SSD: BIO/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will achieve knowledge on the interaction between xenobiotic chemicals (benzene and its derivatives, aromatic compounds, organo-chlorinated and organo-phosphorous compounds and heavy metals) with environment and living organisms. Students will achieve also knowledge on toxicity due to reactive oxygen specie.
Course contents
Xenobiotics and pollutants;
Interaction between xenobiotics and organisms
Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Specie
Metabolism of xenobiotics
Phase I enzymes (Cyt P450)
Phase II enzymes
Degradation pathways of aromatic compounds
Biotrasformation of metals.
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching notes available on-line
Teaching methods
Frontal lesson
Assessment methods
Power point presentation (10 slides max) followed by a
discussion.
Links to further information
http://www.gsartor.org/pro/index.html
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Sartor