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.