CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Atomic structure, orbital and electron configuration; isotopes, chemical bonds, Lewis theory, IUPAC and traditional nomenclature; solutions: properties and concentrations, chemical reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics, acids and bases, buffers; Carbon hybridization, sigma and pi bonds, isomerism and chirality; functional groups. aa, proteins and lipids simple and complex; carbohydrates, simple and complex, nitrogenous bases, ATP, NAD and FAD, Metabolism of glucose, triglycerides and proteins. Haemoglobin and myoglobin. Bioenergetics. Lipoproteins metabolism. Cholesterol metabolism. Nitrogen metabolism. Hormone metabolism and cellular activation. Aminoacids metabolism; liver special metabolisms; ROS.
1-Chemistry, biochemistry and applied biology, 2008, ZANICHELLI
2-Chemistry and propedeutic biochemistry, Edi-ermes
3-Chemistry for biomedical sciences, George Sackheim, Dennis Lehman, 2012, Edises.
The course will be organized in 40 hours of lectures with presentation of slides (tendentially in Italian but, in cases of recently published material, also in English). During the explanation in the classroom the students are invited to interact with the teacher with questions and curiosities. During the lessons, the teacher will also present cases and daily facts that can help understand the application / importance of the subjects taught. Students are required to attend classes as established in the academic regulations of the course of study and to sign the attendance sheet in order to take the exam. The teacher undertakes to make available the presentations projected in lectures and other material of interest (articles) through the University computer platforms (i.e. e-learning) to which the students have access.
The teacher's presentations may contain links to web pages for further information. To receive students, make an appointment by email with the teacher.