ID:
500191
Duration (hours):
16
CFU:
2
SSD:
BIOCHIMICA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 16/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The main objectives of the course are to train students to understand the chemistry and biochemistry as a preliminary basis for the course of Biochemistry. It is given further emphasis to the main metabolic pathways and their regulation at the molecular level, cellular and tissue and, in order to provide students with the biochemical knowledge to be applied in the practice of health rehabilitation, the arguments are treated by integrating chemical, physiological and pathological human biochemistry.
Course Prerequisites
It is a requirement for students enrolled in the Study Courses of the Class of Degrees of the Health Professions of the Rehabilitation Health Professions, including the Chemistry Course, who have obtained an overall score of less than 20% of the maximum score (i.e. a score on the admission test lower than 18) to complete Additional Educational Obligations (OFA) in order to make up the gaps in their knowledge.
It is a requirement that students complete the requisite additional educational obligations (OFA) prior to undertaking the Biology and Biological Chemistry (AF 50346) examinations in the initial year of the course.
In order to fulfil the OFA, students are required to attend ad hoc tutoring sessions in the Biochemistry subjects and complete a test comprising 10 exercises. The test will be marked out of 10, with a minimum of 6 correct exercises required to pass.
The lecturers responsible for the respective subjects will provide the necessary organisational details regarding the courses in question, publish the relevant teaching materials via the Kiro platform and set up two or more OFA appointments during the course of the academic year. It is the responsibility of the students to fulfil any additional training obligations by the end of the first year of the course.
It is a requirement that students complete the requisite additional educational obligations (OFA) prior to undertaking the Biology and Biological Chemistry (AF 50346) examinations in the initial year of the course.
In order to fulfil the OFA, students are required to attend ad hoc tutoring sessions in the Biochemistry subjects and complete a test comprising 10 exercises. The test will be marked out of 10, with a minimum of 6 correct exercises required to pass.
The lecturers responsible for the respective subjects will provide the necessary organisational details regarding the courses in question, publish the relevant teaching materials via the Kiro platform and set up two or more OFA appointments during the course of the academic year. It is the responsibility of the students to fulfil any additional training obligations by the end of the first year of the course.
Teaching Methods
The course will take place with oral lectures that will make use of multimedia systems. .
Assessment Methods
The examination of the Biochemistry course includes a written exam in general and inorganic chemistry and organic, the passing of which is crucial to take the written exam in propedeutic biochemistry. Both written tests will focus on the main topics of the course contents.
The test is considered passed with a grade of NO less than 18/30.
Appropriate testing arrangements will be made for students who fall within the categories of Specific Learning Disabilities (SAD) and Special Educational Needs (SED).
The test is considered passed with a grade of NO less than 18/30.
Appropriate testing arrangements will be made for students who fall within the categories of Specific Learning Disabilities (SAD) and Special Educational Needs (SED).
Texts
no particular texts
Contents
Introductory Biochemistry: • atomic number, mass number. isotope definition. Atomic theory: structure of atoms according to the atomic theory. • Periodic Table. chemical bonds. intermolecular bonds. Sp hybridization, sp2, sp3. Brute formulas and structure. • States of matter. changes in state. Gas Laws. • Valenza, number of oxidation. chemical nomenclature. Classification of chemical reactions. • Chemical kinetics. Thermochemical. • Solutions, solubility, saturation. Ways of expressing concentrations. Physical properties of the solutions. osmotic pressure. Dialysis membranes. • Chemical equilibrium. • electrolytic dissociation. Definition of acids and bases. Definition of pH. Definition of buffer solution, and mechanism of action. Determination of the pH of a buffer solution and physiologic buffers. • Potential redox. • Outline the main elements and inorganic compounds that have biological importance. • Classification, essential structures and reactions of various classes of organic compounds. Definition and examples of isomerism. Biochemistry • Chemistry of amino acids, amino acids with special function (porphyrins, catecholamines, creatine, histamine, serotonin and melanin), monosaccharides, polysaccharides, lipids, and nucleotides. • The digestion of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, and purine and pyrimidine nucleotides. • Proteins: Structure. globular proteins: myoglobin and hemoglobin. Mechanism of action and diseases related to them. Fibrous proteins: collagen and elastin. Structure and related conditions. • Fat-soluble and water soluble vitamins. Coenzymes derived from vitamin and mechanisms of action. • Enzymes: Classification. Mechanism of action: Michaelis-Menten equation. Definition of Km and Vmax. Mechanisms of competitive and non-competitive inhibition. Mechanisms of enzyme regulation. • Bioenergetics and oxidative phosphorylation. Chemioosmotic assumptions and the membrane transport systems. • carbohydrate metabolism: glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, glycogen synthesis and glycogenolysis, the pentose phosphate shunt. main and adjustment stages. • The citric acid cycle (TCA). • Lipid metabolism: fatty acids and triacylglycerols. main and adjustment stages. Cholesterol metabolism and steroids. main and adjustment stages. • Nitrogen Metabolism: nitrogen removal. Degradation and synthesis of amino acids.
Course Language
Italian
More information
The instructor will be on hand throughout the duration of the course, by appointment via e-mail (visai.professionisanitarie@unipv.it).
To help students with their education and exam preparation, a tutoring course has been introduced.
To help students with their education and exam preparation, a tutoring course has been introduced.
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