PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

00166

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in PHARMACY

Disciplinary Sector:

Pharmaceutic Biology

Is part of:

PHARMACOGNOSY AND PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY - INTEGRATED COURSE

Location:

CHIETI

Divisions:

Cognomi A-G - Professor: MENGHINI LUIGI
Cognomi A-G - Professor: FERRANTE CLAUDIO
Cognomi H-Z - Professor: MENGHINI LUIGI
Cognomi H-Z - Professor: POLITI MATTEO

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Prerequisites:

Animal biology and plant biology

Objectives

Study of the plants in the morphological-functional aspects (from the cellular level, to tissues and organs) and the reproductive system. The systematic analysis of the main species, belonging to algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes, spermatophytes, containing active metabolites of medicinal interest , and their uses.
The Pharmaceutical Botany module, integrated to the Pharmacognosy module, has as main objective the acquisition, by the student, of knowledge of the vegetative and reproductive organization of the plant organisms and their taxonomy with particular reference to the species of officinal interest with implications application.

Contents

- General botany
- Sistematic botany

Extended Syllabus

Introduction
Pharmaceutical Botany, definition and objectivests.
Plants as a source of substances of pharmaceutical interest.
Levels of organization: cell, tissue, organ. Flowers, fruits and seeds.
Metabolic functions (photosynthesis, cell respiration, transpiration, growth, reproduction) and phyto-hormones.

Reproduction
Sexual and vegetative reproduction.
Life cycles: aplonte, diplonte, aplodiplonte. Reproductions in higher plants (angiospermae).

Systematic and taxonomy
Definition and objectives. The specie. Classification criteria of the vegetable domain. Nomenclature. Morphologic and chemical characters. Biochemistry and secondary plant metabolites.

Tallophyta
Algae: general remarks about structure, ecophysiology and antropopharmaceutical importance. Systematic: Cyanothyta , Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta, Chlorophyta.

Fungi: general remarks, ecophysiology and pharmaceutical importance.

Cormophyta
Lichens: general remarks, structures, reproduction and classification. Lichens of commercial and industrial interest.
Bryophyta: general remarks.

Tracheophyta
Pteridophyta: general remarks, structures, reproduction and classification. Samples of pharmaceutical interest.

Spermatophyta
Gymnospermae: general remarks, structures, reproduction and classification. Main samples of pharmaceutical interest.
Angiospermophytae: General remarks, reproduction, floral morphologies, fruit and seeds morphologies.
Magnoliopsida
Characters and monographs of medicinal plants belonging to main families.
Liliopsida
Characters and monographs of medicinal plants belonging to main families.

Herbarium
How to prepare an herbarium. Collection, drying and mounting samples. Local ethnobotany.

Recommended Bibliography

-E. Maugini, L. Maleci Bini, M. Mariotti Lippi “Botanica Farmaceutica”, Piccin Editor
-Bruni A., Biologia farmaceutica, Ed. Pearson
-F. Senatore “Biologia e Botanica Farmaceutica”, Piccin Editor
-M. Nicoletti “Botanica Farmaceutica”, EdiSes

Teaching Methods

Frontal talks
laboratory practice (optional)
excursions (optional)

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Multiple choice test on 30 questions with 5 answers. Score: correct answers +1, no answer 0, wrong 0. Minimum vote 18 for admission to the oral interview that concerns the program and the herbarium set up by the student

Contacts/More Information

Additional classes upon request of groups of students on specific topics could be organized. Excursions and guided tours in natural environments and productive plan companies, could be proposed.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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