GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY 3

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: CHIARA BURGALETTO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Provide the student with the basis of pharmacology necessary for the performance of the role of biotechnological technician.

§  Know the role of drugs 

§  Know how the drugs modify the body

§  Know the PK parameters

§  Know the mechanism of action of drugs

Course Structure

Frontal lectures

Required Prerequisites

Requested background: none

Class attend: mandatory

Test: written exam

Delivery of educational material: slides

Information for students with disabilities and / or SLD: To guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with the laws in force, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and / or dispensatory measures, based on the teaching objectives and specifications needs. It is also possible to contact the CInAP contact person (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and / or SLD) of the Department of Biomedical and Biotechonological Sciences.

Attendance of Lessons

Mandatory

Detailed Course Content

  • Routes of drug administration*
  • Drug absorption *
  • Drug distribution *
  • Drug metabolism *
  • Drug elimination  *
  • PK parameters *
  • Receptor classification *
  • Agonists and antagonists *
  • Signal transduction *
  • Tolerance
  • Noradrenergic transmission *
  • Cholinergic transmission*

Textbook Information

Karen L. Whalen,  Le basi della Farmacologia, 4^Edizione, Ed Zanichelli 

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Written exam

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

  • Routes of drug administration*
  • Drug absorption *
  • Drug distribution *
  • Drug metabolism *
  • Drug elimination  *
  • PK parameters *
  • Receptor classification *
  • Agonists and antagonists *
  • Signal transduction *
  • Tolerance
  • Noradrenergic transmission *
  • Cholinergic transmission*
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