Basic Principles of ADME Flashcards
What does ADME stand for?
Absorption
Distribution
Metabolism
Elimination
What does a drug PK give us?
Which dose to give
Which administration route
How often to give a dose
Which administration formulation
How do we get drug PK data?
Through experiments done as part of development research
What are the stages in drug making?
Drug discovery
Preclinical experiments
Clinical trials
Phase IV
What happens in drug discovery?
Identify target
New drug synthesis
What happens in preclinical experiments?
In vitro + vivo
Testing drug activity
1st PK + PD data
What happens in clinical trials?
Phase I = safety + dose range
Phase II = safety, efficacy, dose range + target disease population
Phase III = efficacy + comparison
What happens in phase IV?
Observation = 10-15 years
What is drug absorption?
Mass transfer process that involves the movement of unchanged drug molecules from site of administration into blood stream
What is active transport?
Uniport, antiport + symport
What is passive diffusion?
No involvement of membrane, slowest step, larger molecules diffuse more slowly
What is facilitated diffusion?
Channel protein + carrier protein, sugar, amino acid + drugs with similar structures pass
What is the cell membrane NOT permeable to?
High polarity
High molecular weight
Conformational freedom
Describe uniport
Mediate transport of single drug
Facilitate mode of diffusion
Transport of non-diffusible substances
Never in contact with hydrophobic core
Describe antiport
Coupled movement against conc gradient
Describe symport
Transport 2 different substances simultaneously
What is an example of uniport?
GLUT1 glucose carrier
What is an example of antiport?
3 Na+/ Ca2+ antiporter in cardiac muscles
What is an example of symport?
2 Na+/ glucose symporter
What are the parameters that influence absorption?
Physiochemical properties of drug
Pharmaceutical dosage form
Anatomical + physiological characteristics
Administration route
What are examples of physiochemical properties of drug?
Size
Hydrophilic
Lipophilic
What are examples of pharmaceutical dosage form?
Sustained dosage form
What are examples of administration route?
Systemic or topical
What is dose?
Specific measured amount of drug needed to achieve a specific plasma conc
What is plasma conc?
Amount of drug which reaches the blood stream , gets distributed in body + so achieves specific conc
What happens if specific conc reaches target site?
= pharmacological effect
What is exposure?
Plasma conc vs time
What is area of curve equal to?
Actual body exposure to drug after administration of dose
How do you calculate area under the curve?
Clearance
How do you calculate AUC for IV?
Extrapolated plasma conc/ elimination rate constant
What is bioavailability?
Amount of drug reaching circulatory system from delivery system used
What does oral bioavailability depend on?
Absorption rate
Why is intravenous 100% bioavailability?
Administrated straight into circulation
What is the bioavailability factor?
Ratio of AUC of orally or intravenous administrated drug
What is the equation for bioavailability factor (F)?
AUC oral
————- X 100
AUC iv
What factors influence bioavailability?
Lipid solubility + chemical form of drug = salt factor
Formulation = bioequivalence
Co-administration of other drugs
Presence of comorbidity affecting absorbance site
Susceptibility to gastric acid + enzymes
First-Pass effect
What are examples of comorbidity affecting absorbance site?
Diarrhoea
Vomiting
What happens when a drug is not-H2O soluble?
Low bioavailability
How do you increase solubility of non-H2O soluble drugs?
Formulated as salts
What is bioequivalence?
Ensures all drug formulation on market has same bioavailability
What is drug distribution?
Reversible mass transfer of drug from one location to another within the body
What happens once the drug is absorbed?
Conc gradient exists
What does drug distribution depend on?
Blood flow
What happens if a drug is more lipid soluble?
More chance of reaching target
What must drugs do to interact with target?
Pass through capillary walls into intestinal fluid
Are drugs distributed equally across all organs?
NO
How does blood flow influence drug distribution?
Intensity of it
How does exercise increase drug distribution?
Cardiac output increases 5-6x
= perfusion increases = distribution increases
How does concomitant diseases decrease drug distribution?
Heart failure = not enough perfusion
= distribution takes longer
= peak response to dose delayed
How does decreased renal clearance decrease drug distribution?
Delay drug excretion
What else can decrease/increase drug distribution?
Shock
What may drugs be held by plasma compartments by?
Albumin
Lipoproteins
α1- acid glycoproteins
Describe albumin protein binding
Weak acids bind
Have 2 binding sites
Describe α1- acid glycoproteins binding
Cationic drugs at physiological pH