Developing Drugs (P1)

Question 1

Steps

Answer 1

1. Find a reason
2. Cell culture test
3. Animal test (can it reach the location)
4. Test on healthy volunteers (are effects due to drug?)
5. Trials on the target group (small scale, small dose)
6. Trials on target group (large scale, therapeutic dose)
7. Sale

Question 2

Placebo

Nocebo

Answer 2

Where you expect something to work so it does

Where you expect something to fail so it does

Question 3

Double blind experiment

Answer 3

The experimenter and the subjects don’t know which group has the drug or which has the placebo

Question 4

Digitalis

Answer 4

Comes from dried leaves of foxglove

Heart drug

Question 5

Aspirin

Answer 5

Spiraea (willow) contains sources of salicylic acid

Painkiller

Question 6

Penicillin

Answer 6

Naturally or artificially from a penicillin mould
Antibiotic
Discovered by Fleming when he accidentally left some on a Petri dish and it broke down the bacteria