INTERNAL MEDICINE, PHARMACOLOGY AND CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Module FARMACOLOGIA

The PHARMACOLOGY course provides student with a preparation upon  general principles of pharmacology such as pharmacokinetics, including the routes of administration, the mechanisms of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of the drug, as well as pharmacodinamic. The student will study the most significant drug classes used for cardiac, pulmonary and central nervous system diseases that are in close relationship with the Motor Sciences and  the principal classes of drugs used in sports and subject to restriction of use as well as  the doping.

At the end of the course, students will be able to know the correct use of  of drugs, their therapeutic indications and routes of administration; recognize side effects of the most significant drugs used in medical practice and  the main classes of drugs used in sports and those subjected to restriction of use.

General principles of pharmacology: Definition of drug, medicament, toxic, xenobiotic

PHARMACOKINETICS:  ROUTES OF ADMINISTRATION ABSORPTION, DISTRIBUTION, METABOLISM , ELIMINATION OF DRUGS 

PHARMACODYNAMICS: SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

DRUGS OF THE SYMPATHIC AND PARASYMPATHIC SYSTEMS

DRUGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY DISEASES

NON-STEROID AND STEROID ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS

DRUGS FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

MUSCLE RELAXANT DRUGS

ANTI-SPASTIC DRUGS

DOPING

ANTIDEPRESSANTS

 BENZODIAZEPINES

Taglialatela M, Conforti A, Leone R, Mattioli F, Moretti U, Pignataro G, Vanzetta M.( 2018)  Farmacologia (Sorbona Ed. Idelson-Gnocchi)

M. Amico-Roxas, A. Caputi, M. Del Tacca: Compendio di Farmacologia generale e speciale (UTET)