PHARMACOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- MICHELE MORARI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- BIO/14
Training objectives
- Acquire the fundamental pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic knowledge that allows the understanding of the pharmacological profile and the mechanism of action of drugs. Acquire the pharmacological knowledge essential to prescribe and administer the drugs of current use in dentistry.
Prerequisites
- Needed knowledge of anatomy, microbiology, biochemistry, and physiology
Course programme
- General Pharmacology
Pharmacodynamics: receptor and non receptor-mediated drug mechanisms of action, drug-receptor interactions and signal transduction, agonists and antagonists, dose effect curve, therapeutic index, the variability of drug effects.
Pharmacokinetics: absorption, routes of administration, distribution, metabolism, elimination, doses and posology.
Organ system pharmacology
Pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system, antihistamine drugs, local anesthetics, anxiolytics, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, anticoagulants and pro-coagulants, lipid-lowering draugs, , opioids, antibiotics for dentistry. Didactic methods
- Lectures
Learning assessment procedures
- Written exam: the examination encompasses 31 with multiple-choice questions on all topics of the course
Reference texts
- Katzung, “Farmacologia generale e clinica”. XI edizione italiana, Piccin, 2021
Amico-Roxas, M. e collaboratori, "Farmacologia in odontoiatria", UTET, Torino
