- Medicine and Surgery
- Single Cycle Master Degree (6 years)
- Medicine and Surgery [H4102D]
- Courses
- A.A. 2024-2025
- 5th year
- Pharmacology
- Summary
Course Syllabus
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Aims
Main aim of the course is to provide students with gastrointestinal pharmacology. The course will present and describe available pharmacological strategies for the treatment of gastric pathologies (gastric acidity, ulcers, esophageal reflux), gastrointestinal motility, emesis, hepatic and pancreatic diseases, gut inflammation. Mechanism of action, therapeutic properties, drug interactions, and side effects will be presented.
Contents
Main classes of drugs, mechanisms of action, drug interactions and precautions.
Detailed program
Drugs for the treatment of gastric acidity, peptic ulcer, esophageal reflux.
Drugs for the control of gastrointestinal motility: prokinetics and treatment of stypsis and diarrhea.
Drugs for the treatment and prevention (vaccines) of hepatic and pancreatic diseases.
Anticancer drugs for the treatment of gastrointestinal neoplasia.
Work in groups: the microbiome.
Prerequisites
Fundamental knowledge on cell biology and general pharmacology
Teaching form
4 2-h frontal lessons.
1 interactive lesson: work in groups
Textbook and teaching resource
Bertram G. Katzung “Basic and clinical pharmacology” 14th Edition. LANGE
Goodman & Gilman “The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics” 13th Edition, Laurence L. Brunton, Randa Hilal-Dandan, Björn C. Knollmann. McGraw-Hill Education
Rang & Dale “Pharmacology” 14th Edition, Elsevier.
Semester
Second
Assessment method
As for the vertical track (multiple choice test and oral examination on the topics covered during the lecture)
Office hours
On appointment (write to: laura.musazzi@unimib.it)
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Key information
Staff
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Laura Musazzi