FITOCHIMICA - BIOTECNOLOGIE FARMACEUTICHE APPLICATE ALLE PIANTE OFFICINALI

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year - Curriculum Scienze Erboristiche e dei Prodotti Nutraceutici
Teaching Staff
  • Phytochemistry: Giuseppina Arico'
  • BIOTECNOLOGIE FARMACEUTICHE APPLICATE ALLE PIANTE OFFICINALI: Valeria PITTALA'
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: CHIM/08 - Pharmaceutical chemistry
Taught classes: 84 hours
Term / Semester: 1° and 2°

Detailed Course Content

  • Phytochemistry

    PROGRAMME:

    GENERAL (2 CFU)

    Primary and secondary metabolism

    Biosynthetic pathways in vascular plants

    Secondary metabolites: roles and functions

    Definition of officinalis plant, medicinal plant, drug, phytocomplex

    Factors influencing the content of active ingredients in a drug.

    CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS (4 CFU)

    Acetate pathway: fatty acids and polyketides

    Scikimate pathway: aromatic amino acids and phenylpropanoids

    Mevalonate pathway : terpenoids and steroids

    Alkaloids :Alkaloids deriving from ornithine, Alkaloids deriving from tyrosine, Indolic alkaloids, minor alkaloids

    Carbohydrates


Textbook Information

  • Phytochemistry

    PAUL M. DEWICK: Medicinal Natural Products.