MEDICINA INTERNA E FARMACOLOGIA
Module FARMACOLOGIA

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: GIUSEPPINA CANTARELLA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The PHARMACOLOGY course provides student with a preparation upon  general principles of pharmacology such as pharmacokinetics, including the routes of administration, the mechanisms of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of the drug, as well as pharmacodinamic. The student will study the most significant drug classes used for cardiac, pulmonary and central nervous system diseases that are in close relationship with the Motor Sciences and  the principal classes of drugs used in sports and subject to restriction of use as well as  the doping.

At the end of the course, students will be able to know the correct use of  of drugs, their therapeutic indications and routes of administration; recognize side effects of the most significant drugs used in medical practice and  the main classes of drugs used in sports and those subjected to restriction of use.

Course Structure

classroom lecture with ppt projections

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the physiology and pathophysiology of the main organs and systems.

Detailed Course Content

General principles of pharmacology: Definition of drug, medicament, toxic, xenobiotic

PHARMACOKINETICS:  ROUTES OF ADMINISTRATION ABSORPTION, DISTRIBUTION, METABOLISM , ELIMINATION OF DRUGS 

PHARMACODYNAMICS: SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

DRUGS OF THE SYMPATHIC AND PARASYMPATHIC SYSTEMS

DRUGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY DISEASES

NON-STEROID AND STEROID ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS

DRUGS FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

MUSCLE RELAXANT DRUGS

ANTI-SPASTIC DRUGS

DOPING

ANTIDEPRESSANTS

 BENZODIAZEPINES

Textbook Information

Taglialatela M, Conforti A, Leone R, Mattioli F, Moretti U, Pignataro G, Vanzetta M.( 2018)  Farmacologia (Sorbona Ed. Idelson-Gnocchi)

M. Amico-Roxas, A. Caputi, M. Del Tacca: Compendio di Farmacologia generale e speciale (UTET)

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Principi generali di farmacologia: Definizione di farmaco, medicamento, tossico, droga, xenobiotico
2 FARMACOCINETICA VIE DI SOMMINISTRAZIONE ASSORBIMENTO DISTRIBUZIONE DEI FARMACI METABOLISMO DEI FARMACI ELIMINAZIONE DEI FARMACI
3FARMACODINAMICA TRASDUZIONE DEL SEGNALE:
4FARMACI DEL SISTEMA SIMPATICO E PARASIMPATICO
5FARMACI PATOLOGIE APPARTO CARDIOVASCOLARE
6FARMACI ANTIINFIAMMATORI NON STEROIDEI E STEROIDEI
7FARMACI PER LA MALATTIA DI PARKINSON
8FARMACI MIORILASSANTI
9FARMACI ANTISPASTICI
10DOPING
11ANTIDEPRESSIVI E BENZODIAZEPINE

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The evaluation of the student includes an oral exam which consists in submitting to the examiner three questions, one of pharmacokinetics, one of pharmacodynamics and one of special pharmacology relating to exercise sciences

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

What is doping? What are the inherent characteristics of the drug that enable its successful absorption ? How and where does drug metabolism occur ? 
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