cancer and drug development Flashcards
benign tumer
grows until no more room isn’t deadly
malignant tumer
tumer grows and spreds to other sites in body
can be fatal
3 steps of testing new drugs
- computer smulators
- tested on human tichew
- live animals
blind and double blind trial
blined trild - the pavement dose not know wether it is drug or not
dobbly blind trial - pachent of dokter dose not kno whether it is drug of placebo
depressents …
e.g. alcohol - decrease brain aktivtey. slowwer reaction poor judgment
stimulent …
e.g. nikteen - inkrees brain aktivtey. moor eleart and awake
pain killer…
e.g. asprin - reduces the paine stimuli neer an ingrey
perfournmance enharnser…
e.g. sterarodis - help bild mussel
hallucingenik…
e.g. LSD - distort what you are seeing
class a drugs x 3
LSD ecstasy cocaine
class b drugs x 2
cannabis amphetamines
calss c drugs x 3
anabolic steroids tranquillisers