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MANARA & MANNAIONI: Farmacologia e Doping - Masson
MOTTRAM: Farmaci e Sport - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
MCARDLE ET AL. – Alimentazione nello Sport – Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and understanding: The student should deepen the knowledge of the programs of the Pharmacology and Nutraceutics courses taken in the three-year Motor Sciences Degree Course or in similar courses of other Schools and Universities. In partcular, the student should know the origin and classification criteria of drugs, integrators, supplements, nutrients and nutraceutics, the fundamental principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, as well as the interindivdual response variability according to genetic factors, age and sex and the criteria for evaluation of the risk to benefit ratio.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The student should know the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, toxicity and pharmacological interactions of the principal classes of drugs used in sports and in motor activity pathologies in different stages of life, as well as the toxicology of drugs of abuse and drugs used to improve physical performance, the pathologies that ensue and the possible detoxification treatments.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry
Teaching Methods
The Course takes place in the second semester of the I year by means of one or two frontal oral classes of 2 h per week.
Type of Assessment
Oral Profit Exam. The assessment takes into account the costant commitment of the student in all the phases of the formative process. In particular, the following are verified: the knowledge and learning of the basic notions delivered during the frontal lessons and through the teaching material and the devolpemnt of critical sense on the topics of the subject. The oral exam or the written test are carried out in fornt of the teacher in public form exclusively on the dates indicated in the exam calendar.
Course program
Pharmacological aspects of doping and drug and behavioral addiction. Antidoping analysis methodologies. WADA Prohibited List: compilation criteria and novelties of the latest update.
General pharmacology: in-depth analysis of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, epidemiological aspects of drug abuse, farmacogenomics and gene doping.
Special pharmacology: mechanism of action, collateral effects and abuse liability of central stimulants, narcotic analgesics, anabolic steroids, hormones, oxygen tansport enhancers, antiinflammatory drugs.
Pharmacology and nutrition: anorexic drugs, integration and supplementation.