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B6 Preventing and treating disease Flashcards

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What does every cell have on its surface?

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unique proteins called antigens

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The antigens on the microorganisms that get into your body are…

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…different to the ones on your own cells

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Your _____ system recognises that the ____ on the micro-organisms that get into your body are _____ to the ones on your __ cells

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i) immune
ii) antigens
iii) different
iv) own

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What happens after your immune system recognises the difference between the antigens on the micro-organisms that enter your body?

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your WBCs make specific anti-bodies

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What do antibodies do?

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join up with antigens and inactivate or destroy that particular pathogen

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What can some of your white blood cells do?

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memory cells ‘remember’ the right antibody needed to destroy a particular pathogen

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What happens if you meet the same pathogen you have before?

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the memory cells can make the same antibody very quickly to kill the pathogen, so you become immune to the disease

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Why do you get ill the first time you meet a new pathogen

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there is a delay while your body sorts out the right antibody needed

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Some pathogens can make you seriously ill very quick;y. Give an example

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meningitis

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10
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Why can you die very quickly by serious diseases?

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the disease affects the body before it manages to make the right antibodies

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What does immunization involve?

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giving a vaccine made of a dead or inactivated form of a disease-causing microorganism

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What do dead or inactivated form of a disease-causing microoganism stimulates?

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your body’s natural immune response to invading pathogens

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What happens in a vaccination?

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  • small amount of dead/inactive forms of a pathogen is introduced into the body
  • stimulates while blood cells to product antibodies needed to fight the pathogen and prevent you from being ill
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Why do vaccinations work?

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if you meet the same, live pathogen, your white blood cells can respond rapidly

  • make right antibodies
  • just as if you already had the disease
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What do doctors use vaccines to protect us from?

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against both bacterial diseases and viral diseases

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16
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Name two bacterial diseases

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tetanus and diphtheria

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Name three viral diseases

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polio, measles and mumps

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18
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What is herd immunity?

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if a large proportion of the population is immune to a disease, spread of pathogen reduces and may even disappear

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What is a drawback of herd immunity?

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it will take money and determination

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Often medicine doesn’t affect the pathogen that is causing the problems. What does it do?

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eases the symptoms and makes you feel better

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21
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Give examples of drugs that are very useful pain killers?

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aspirin and paracetamol

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Painkillers help relieve but…

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have no effect on the viruses that have entered your tissues and made you feel ill

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23
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What are antiseptics and disinfectants used for?

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to kill bacteria outside the body; far too poisonous to use inside your body

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24
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What are the drugs that have really changed the treatment of communicable diseases?

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antibiotics

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What are antibiotics?

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Medicines that can work inside your body to kill BACTERIAL pathogens

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26
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When were antibiotics first widely available?

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1940s

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An example of antibiotic?

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penicillin

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how do antibiotics work?

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killing the bacterua that cause disease whilst they are in your body

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What do antibiotics do?

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damage the bacterial cells without harming your own cells

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What form do antibiotics take

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a pill/syrup

-very ill, antibiotics may be put straight into your bloodstream

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Why are antibiotics sometimes put straight into the bloodstream?

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make sure they reach the pathogens as soon as possible

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32
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Some antibiotics…

Others are…

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…kill a wide range of bacteria

…are very specific and only work against particular bacteria

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33
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Specific bacteria should be treated with…

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the specific antibiotic that is effective against them

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34
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What do viruses do?

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reproduce inside the cells of your body

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Why is is extremely difficult to develop drugs that will kill viruses?

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risk of famaging the cells and tissues of your body as the same time

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Drawback of antibiotics?

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cannot kill viral pathogens

-strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are evolving

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37
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Traditionally, where were drugs extracted from?

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plants or microorganisms such as moulds

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38
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How do scientists make more effective drugs nowadays?

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often adapt chemicals from microorganisms, plants and animals

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39
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What is digitalis and digoxin?

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one of several drugs extracted from foxgloves that have been used since the 18th century to help strengthen the heartbeat

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40
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What do doctors still use digoxin for?

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older patients with heart problems

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41
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Large amounts of these chemicals in drugs can act as?

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poisons

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42
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aspirin originates from?

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a compound found in the bark of willow trees

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43
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What sort of properties to aspirin have and when were they recorded?

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anti-flammatory and pain-relieving properties

-400BC

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44
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In 1897, what did Felix Hoffman do?

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synthesised acetyl salicylic acid

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45
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What is aspirin and what does it do?

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acetyl salicylic acid

-relieves pain and inflammation better than willow bark but has fewer side effects

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46
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aspirin is still commonly used to treat what?

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a wide range of health problems

47
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In the early 20th century, scientists were looking for what?

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chemicals that might kill bacteria and cure infectious diseases

48
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In 1928, who was growing bacteria for study purposes?

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Alexander Fleming

49
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Why was Alexander Fleming rather careless?

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often left the lids off his culture plates- health and safety procedures were not as good in those days

50
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After one holiday, what did Fleming see?

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lots of his culture plates had mould growing on them

51
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What did Fleming notice in his culture plates after one holiday?

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a clear ring in the jelly around some of the spots of mould

52
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What did Flemings realise?

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something had killed the bacteria covering the gel

53
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What did Flemings call the substance that killed bacteria and why?

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penicillin after penicillium mould that produced

54
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After his discovery, what did Flemings do?

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unsuccessfully tried for several years to extract as active juice from the mould before giving up and moving on to other work

55
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What happened about 10 years after Fleming’s discovery?

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Ernst Chain and Howard Florey were set about trying tying to extract penicillin

56
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What did Ernst Chain and Howard Florey do to extract penicillin?

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  • they gave some penicillin to a man dying of a blood infection
  • recovered almost miraculously
57
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What did Ernst Chain and Howard Florey demonstrate?

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that pencillin could cure bacterial infections in people

58
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What happened after Ernst Chain and Florey extracted penicillin?

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Working with the company pfizer in the USA, they made penicillin on an industrial scale; producing enough to supply the demands of WW2

59
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Give an example where finding new medicine is difficult?

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it is not easy to find chemicals that kill bacteria without damaging human cells

60
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How are most drugs now synthesised?

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by research chemists working in the pharmaceutical industry using chemical banks and computer models
(however, the starting point may still be a chemical extracted from a plant or microorganism)

61
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What happens to compounds showing promise as antibiotics?

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can be modified to produce more powerful molecules that can be synthesized easily and cheaply

62
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Why are scientists also collecting soil samples globally and searching for microorganisms?

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to produce a new antibuitic against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

63
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How much of soil microorganisms can be cultured in the lab?

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1% of soil microorganisms

64
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What have scientists developed that would enable them to grow microorganisms in the soil in a controlled way

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A special unit

65
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Using the special unit technology, scientists were able to do what in 2015?

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they announced a completely new type of antibiotic from some soil bacteria

66
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In tests so far, what have the soil bacteria proven to do?

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the antibiotic has destroyed all bacteria including MRSA, and other antibiotic resistant pathogens
-it worked in mice

67
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Scientists test new medicines where?

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in the labratory

68
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What has to happen to every new medical treatment?

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to be extensively treated and trialed in a series of stages before it is used

69
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Why must new medical treatments be tested and trialled?

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to make sure it works well and is as safe as possible

70
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A good medicine is what four things?

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  1. Effective
  2. Safe
  3. Stable
  4. Successfully taken into and removed from your body
71
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What happens when scientists research a new medicine?

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they have to make sure all the conditions are met

72
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Making sure that a medicine is up to all the right conditions can take how long?

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up to 12 years to bring a new medicine into your doctor’s surgery

73
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How much does it cost for medicines to be extensively tested and trialled?

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costs around £1700 million, including failures and capital costs

74
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Researchers target a disease and then…

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make lots of possible new deugs

75
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Possible new drugs are tested in the laboratory why?

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to find out if they are toxic and if they seem to do their job
-toxicity and efficacy

76
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In the lab, what are the possible new drugs tested on?

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cells, tissues, and even whole organs

77
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At what stage do the new possible drugs usually fail at?

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many chemicals fail at the testing of cells, tissues and even whole organs

78
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What happens to the small number of chemiclas that do pass the tests on cells, tissues and even whole organs and why?

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labratory tested on animals to find out how they work in a whole living organism

79
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Why may testing on a whole living organism be useful?

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gives information about possible doses and side effects

80
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What are the tissues and animals used for when testing and developing drugs?

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as models to predict how the drugs may behave in humans

81
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What is the testing called when it is on cells, tissues and live animals?

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preclinical testing

82
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Drugs that pass animal testing move on to what?

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clinical trials

83
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What do clinical trials involve?

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using healthy volunteers and patients

84
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What happens in in clinical trials?

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-very low doses are given to healthy people to check for side effects

85
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In clinical trials, what happens if the drug is found to be safe?

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it is tried on a small number of patients to see if it treats the disease

86
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If the drug seems to be safe and effective to affected people, what happens?

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bigger clinical trials take place to find the optimum dose for the drug

87
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What happens if the medicine passes all the legal tests?

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it is licenced so your doctor can prescribe it

-its safety will be monitored for as long as it is used

88
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In human trials, what do scientists use?

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a double blind trial

89
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Why is a double blind trial used?

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to see just how effective the new medice is

90
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What do the double blind trials involve?

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a group of patients with the target disease agree ti take part in the trials

  • some are given a placebo
  • some are given new medicine
  • patients randomly allocated to the different groups
  • neither the doctor nor the patients know who has received the real drug/placebo until the trial is complete
  • the patients health is monitored carefully
91
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A placebo…

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does not contain the drug

92
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What does the placebo often contain instead?

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a different drug that is already used to treat the disease

93
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Placebos contain a different drug that is already used to treat a disease. What does this mean?

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the patient is not deprived of treatment while taking part in the trial

94
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What happens to the results of drug tests and trials like all scientific research?

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Published in journals after they have been scritinised in a process of peer review

95
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Why are the results of drug tests and trials published in journals?

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so that other scientists working in the same area can check the results over, helping to prevent false claims

96
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Who looks at the published results of drug trials and decide which drugs give good value for money and should be prescribed by the NHS

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National bodies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
(NICE)

97
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Like vaccinations, monoclonal antibodies rely on what?

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on the immune system

98
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What are monoclonal antibodies?

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proteins that are produced to target particular cells or chemicals in the body

99
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What are lymphocytes and what do they do?

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They are a type of white blood cell that can make antibodies but cannot divide

100
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Tumour cells do not usually make antibodies. What can they do?

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divide rapidly to make a clone of cells

101
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True or false. All mammals, including mice, produce lymphocytes.

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True

102
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What is a hybridoma?

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the cell made when scientists combine mice lymphocytes (that have been stimulated to make a particular antibody) with a type of tumour cell

103
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What do single hybridoma cells do?

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divide to make a large number of identical cells that all produce the same antibodies

104
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What happens are single hybridoma cells divide to make a large number of identical cells that all produce the same antibodies?

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the antibodies are collected and purified

105
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After they had been collected and purified, the antibodies are called

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monoclonal antibodies

106
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What are scientists doing now to produce monoclonal antibodies that are less likely to be rejected by human cells?

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combining mice cells with human cells

107
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Step by step production of monoclonal antibodies

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  1. i) B lymphocutes make specific antibodies but do not divide
    ii) tumour cells that do not make antibodies but divide
  2. A hypridoma cell (makes specific antibodies and divides)
  3. The cells are cloned
  4. Monoclonal antibodies are sepearted, purified and can be used
108
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What are antigens and where are they often found?

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protein molecules that are often found on the surface of cells (free protein molecules can act as antigens)

109
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The monoclonal antibodies produced from a ____ ___ of cells are specific to one ____ ___ on one ____ antigen

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i) single clone
ii) binding site
iii) specific

110
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Uses of monoclonal antibodies?

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  1. pregnancy tests
  2. diagnosis of disease
  3. measuring and monitoring
  4. research
  5. treating disease
111
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Explain how pregnancy tests work?

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-relies on monoclonal antibodies that bind to the hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) that is made in the early stages of pregnancy.

112
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How do monoclonal antibodies help diagnosis of disease

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monoclonal antibodies are made to bind to specific antigens foound on pathogens, or on blood clots or on cancer cells

113
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How are monoclonal antibodies able to make it easy for doctors to detect problems before they are seriously affecting a patient’s health

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monoclonal antibodies can also carry markers that make it easy for doctors to see where they have built up

114
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How can monoclonal antibodies be used for measuring and monitoring?

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monoclonal antibodies are used in hospotals and laboratories to measure or monitor the levels sd

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