20410804 - PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY

Develop theoretical and experimental skills in the botanical-pharmaceutical field, through the study of drugs of plant origin.
Provide the basic knowledge on the origins and development of the pharmacopoeia in its ethnobotanical origins and on the phototherapeutic use of the most important medicinal species.
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Programme

Phytotherapy, Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology. Historical development of the use of medicinal plants from the ancient time to the modern age. Medical school in the ancient times. Natural pharmacy, medicinal plants. Drugs and Natural products.
(1 CFU)
Plants Biodiversity of pharmaceutical interest. Main families of medicinal interest and common pharmacological features. Study of the main plant species of medicinal and interest: botanical description, geographical distribution, part of the plant used, active principles of pharmaceutical interest, mechanism of action, pharmaceutical forms.
(2 CFU + LAB)
Products of primary and secondary metabolism. Role of secondary metabolites in plants. Compartmentation and accumulation. Secretion and secondary metabolism. Metabolism of secretion and secretory systems. The biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites. Mechanisms to produce substances of pharmaceutical interest. Endogenous and exogenous factors, which influences the production of active ingredients in plants of pharmaceutical interest.
(2 CFU)


Core Documentation

Maugini E. Maleci Bini L. Maritti Lippi M. Botanica Farmaceutica Ed Piccin 2014 9° edizione

Attendance

Obligatory frequency only for laboratory tests

Type of evaluation

The evaluation will be based on an written and an oral test.

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Programme

The professor receives every day by appointment via e-mail: alessandra.cona@uniroma3.it

Attendance

In presence (remote teaching for the categories of students authorized by the University)