SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff Credit Value: 6
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:

Detailed Course Content

  • Biochemistry

    Program of the course

    Radioactivity

    Biochemistry

    • Carbohydrates
    • Lipids
    • Amino acids and proteins
    • Enzymes
    • Metabolism of Carbohydrates
    • Electrical Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation
    • Metabolism of Lipids
    • Metabolism of Proteins
    • Metabolism of Nucleotides
    • Biological Fluids
    • Vitamins
    • Hormones

  • Pharmacology

    Introduction to Pharmacology.

    Drugs development process.

    Elements of Pharmacokinetics: absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination.

    Elements of Pharmacodynamic and types of drug receptors.

    Elements of drugs interaction.

    Elements of drug abuse and addiction.

    Allergy and idiosyncrasy.

    Drugs and teratogenic risk.

    Serotonergic, adrenergic and GABAergic neurotransmission.

    Treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders.

    Anti inflammatory agents.


    Anti histaminic drugs.



    Treatment of asthma and anaphylactic shock.

    Monoclonal antibodies.

    Radiopharmaceutic agents.

    Contrast media.









Textbook Information

  • Biochemistry

    TEXTS OF REFERENCE

    1. Chemistry Biochemistry and Applied Biology
      Massimo Stefani, Nicholas Taddei
      And home. Zanichelli


    2. Chemicals for Biomedical Sciences
    George I. Sackheim
    Dennis D. Lehman
    EdiSES


    3. Biochemistry
    Campbell / Farrell
    EdiSES

  • Pharmacology

    Farmacologia per le professioni sanitarie; Rossi F., Cuomo V., Riccardi C.,
    Edizioni Minerva Medica