FFI010B - biological tests of drugs

courses

ID:

FFI010B

Duration (hours):

12

CFU:

1.5

SSD:

ANATOMIA UMANA

Located in:

CHIETI

Url:

Course Details:

PHARMACY/CORSO GENERICO Year: 5

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Course Objectives

The course aims at proposing a comprehensive view of basal procedures and assays used for the biological evaluation of newly synthetized compounds, nanomaterials and drug delivery.

Course Prerequisites

Human Anatomy

Teaching Methods

12 hours of lectures

Assessment Methods

Oral examination

Texts

SOLOMON, BERG, MARTIN-Biologia-EDISES.
ALBERTS, JOHNSON, LEWIS et al.-Biologia molecolare della cellula-ZANICHELLI

Cell organization and communication.
In vitro cell culture models: primary cell cultures, normal and cancer cell lines.
In vitro metabolic activity and cytotoxicity assays.
Study of the intracellular trafficking in response to different pharmaceutical systems by means of flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy.