SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE

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