Drug Discovery Process Flashcards
Is it better to provide distilled sterile water or normal saline solution (sodium chloride NaCl- 0.90%) for people to do drugs?
We would recommend water as we don’t know what drug they will be taking and both are safer then dirty water, the cost of normal distilled sterile water is cheaper so we can affect the biggest population
What is disease
A condition which interferes with an organisms normal state (baseline)
Aetiology of disease
- The science of causes of diseases
- Can be caused by genetic or environmental factors which causes dysfunction
- Dysfunction causes diagnostic signs, symptoms and disabilities or prognosis
What is a drug
An agent intended for use in diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of disease in humans or animals
What happens if a drug is given to a healthy individual?
It will cause an effect in the body which alters biological functions
Every drug has symptoms whether they are noticeable or not
What is a lead compound?
It is the prototype chemical compound which has a desired biological or pharmacological activity
It is not the complete drug and doesn’t possess all desired features of a drug
What is a prodrug?
A compound that needs metabolic biotransformation after being administered to be active within the body
Why use Prodrugs
- For Solubility, site specificity (targeting), permeability, extended effect, reduced toxicity, stability on shelf
Dosage form
- The types of preparations in which the drug is presented to the patient
- Drug delivery systems (pill, liquid…)
Rationale for different dosage forms?
- Safe and convenient means of administering an accurate dose of a drug (important for potent drugs requiring very low doses)
- To protect the drug against chemical decomposition (both external such as atmospheric oxygen and humidity, and internal such as gastric acid)
- To conceal unpleasant odor or taste
- Control the release of the drug
What is needed to know for prep and formulation of a drug
- Active ingredient- drug
- Non- medicinal additives/ excipients (substances added that are not for therapeutic action but rather aid the manufacturing process)
- Dosage form
- Method of preparation
What is the order of drug naming
- When discovered initially represented by empirical formula (NaCl)
- The “ new compound will then have a chemical name (heptane-2- carboxylic acid)
- When the new chemical entity shows sufficient promise as a drug –> non-proprietary name is proposed
- When a drug product is developed and marketed, a proprietary name is given (trademark: only the inventor can use this name such as tylenol)
What is a proprietary name
- Brand name
A trademark officially registered by a company
What is a Non proprietary name
- Generic name
The generally recognized or common name for a drug
Who is Standardized nomenclature established by
- United states adopted names (USAN) council
World health organization (WHO)
Example of a drug product Tylenol
- Drug: acetaminophen (generic name)
- Dosage form: tablet
Drug product: tylenol tablet (brand name)
- Dosage form: tablet
What is Pharmaceutics definition
The study of the physical, chemical and biological factors which influence the stability and effectiveness of pharmaceutical products and which should be considered in their formular and manufacture
What is Pharmaceutics concerned with 4 things
- *formulation
- Manufacture
- Stability
Effectiveness
What is biopharmaceutics (Definition)
- The study of the properties of the drug and dosage form after administration into the body
E.g: pharmacokinetics (ADME)
What are the 4 parts of pharmacokinetics
- Absorption
- Distribution
- Metabolism
Excretion
What is pharmacokinetics concerned with
What does the body do to the drug
What is pharmacodynamics concerned with
What does the drug do to the body
What is the difference between pH value and pKa value?
- pH is related to the acidity or basic properties of a compound
pKa determines if the compound is protonate or unprotonated ( it is unprotonated if the pH is above the pKa
in relation to pka is deprotonated or protonated above pH
Deprotonated: Above pKa
Protonated: Below pKa
What is the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
Equation used to calculate pKa
Explain Hydrogen bonding
- A type of dipole-dipole attraction and is not covalent
- Attractive force between a hydrogen atom covalently bonded to a very electronegative atom such as N, O, or F and another very electronegative atom
- Weaker then an ionic or covalent bond but stronger then van der waal forces (attraction force between atoms or non polar molecules caused by a temporary change in dipole moment, this creates a similar shift in nearing atoms or molecules)
- Attractive force between a hydrogen atom covalently bonded to a very electronegative atom such as N, O, or F and another very electronegative atom