chronotherapy Flashcards
effects of clock disruption can cause:
- mental health problems: stress, anxiety, depression
- changes to menstrual cycle and hormone production
- brain effects: sleep loss, reduced brain volume
- gastrointestinal: abdominal pain, flatulence, heart burn
- increased cancer: breast and colorectal
- reproduction effects: low birth weight, prematurity
- Cardiovascular: MI, hypertension
What are the 4 stages of pharmokinetics
Absorption,distribution, metabolism, excreted
Phase1 reactions are
Catabolic
Phase 2 metabolism is
Anabolic
how are Circadian rhythms involved during ADME
Gut motility, bile synthesis and excretion, liver and drug metabolism.
Examples of Chronopharmacology drugs
Acetaminophene and theophylline
When does asthma occur
During the later part of the night
Paracetamol ‘s responsible for
Half of all acute liver failures in the us
How is paracetamol toxic
Some can be converted to cytochromes p450 in the liver
What is strongly regulated by the clock
Cytochromes
Disruption to biological clocks can be treated with
Chronodrugs
what is bioequivalence
is the biochemical similarity of two (or more) drugs that share the same active ingredient(s) and desired outcome(s) for patients