Chapter3: Cultural and Pharmacogenetic considerations Flashcards
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the study of drug responses that may be unique to an individual owing to social, cultural, and biologic phenomena
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Ethnopharmacology
2
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Occurs when a less powerful group changes its ways to blend in with the dominant cultural group
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Assimilation
3
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The process by which a group adjusts to living within a dominant culture while maintaining its own identity
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Acculturation
4
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the general study of all the different genes that determine drug behavior
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Pharmacogenomics
5
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DNA variants that occur within a specific population
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Polymorphisms
6
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A substance that binds to and is metabolized by one or more enzymes
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Substrate
