FITOCHIMICA - BIOTECNOLOGIE FARMACEUTICHE APPLICATE ALLE PIANTE OFFICINALI

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year - Curriculum Scienze Erboristiche e dei Prodotti Nutraceutici

Learning Objectives

• Phytochemistry

  The student after completing the course, should be able: 1) To acquire the principle of pharmaceutical science in the field of phytochemistry; 2) Define the physicochemical properties of natural products. 3)Illustrate, how to separate, identify and estimate the different active chemical constituents of the medicinal plants. 4) Acquire good knowledge about the uses of the different active constituents (essential oils – carbohydrates – bitter principles – resins – tannins) of the medicinal plants.

Detailed Course Content

• Phytochemistry

  PROGRAMME:

  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.

  Role and Functions of the more important secondary metabolites.

  Action mechanism of the more important secondary metabolites.

  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

  Extraction Techniques.

Textbook Information

• Phytochemistry

  PAUL M. DEWICK: Medicinal Natural Products.