PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES I
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- CLAUDIO NASTRUZZI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- CHIM/09
Training objectives
- After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Apply the scientific principles relative to the design, manufacture and quality control of liquid and semi-solid pharmaceutical formulations.
2. Fabricate magisterial and galenic preparations based on liquid and semisolid forms.
3. Perform the pharmaceutical compounding and dispensing, assays of Italian and European Pharmacopoeias on on liquid and semisolid forms. Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the principles of Physics, General and inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Biochemistry.
Course programme
- - Definition of medicines and dosage forms
- Classes of medicines
- National and International Pharmacopoeias and Formulary
- Medicines (Marketing Authorisation) Regulations
- Liquid dosage forms
- Solutions and their properties, solubility and dissolution process
- Disperse systems, colloidal systems
- Surface and interfacial phenomena
- Classes and properties of surfactants and emulsifiers
- Micelles and microemulsions: phase diagrams, pharmaceutical applications
- Suspensions: physico-chemical characteristics, preparation, excipients, stability
- Emulsions: physico-chemical characteristics, preparation, excipients, stability
- Parenteral preparations
- Formulations for peptides and proteins
- Advanced drug delivery systems: liposomes, nanosystems, polymeric prodrugs
- Principles of sterilisation procedures
- Packs and packaging for medicines
- Ophthalmic preparations
- Preparations for cutaneous applications Didactic methods
- Classes
Seminars Learning assessment procedures
- The methods by which the effective acquisition of knowledge and skills provided, is based on an oral assessment to be carried out on the blackboard.
The evaluation of knowledge will be conducted with questions designed to ascertain the actual acquisition by students of knowledge and skills described in the "Aims"). Final assessment (final grade) will be obtained by a careful analysis of the responses of the student taking into account both the purely technical notional and the display capacity of the student. Reference texts
- Aulton. Tecnologie farmaceutiche. Progettazione e allestimento dei medicinali
di Michael E. Aulton, Kevin M. Taylor
Editore: Edra
Edizione: 4
Data di Pubblicazione: aprile 2015
EAN: 9788821438707
ISBN: 8821438708
Pagine: 912
Loyd V. Allen.
Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy.
Editore: Pharmaceutical Press; 22nd Revised edition
A.T. Florence, David Attwood.
Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy.
Editore: Pharmaceutical Pr; 5th edizione
P. Colombo, F. Alhaique, C. Caramella, B. Conti A. Gazzaniga, E. Vidale.
Principi di Tecnologia Farmaceutica. Seconda Edizione
Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.
ISBN 978-8808-18251-7
