Drugs Flashcards
3 SERMS
- Tamoxifen, Raloxefene, Chlomiphene
PK, PD, Uses and AEs
For Tamoxifen
PK- Oral available
PD- Partial Agonist effects in endometrium and bone
Uses- Used to treat breast cancer in post-menopausal women and adjuvant with lumpectomy
AEs- Due to partial agonist effects in endometrium associated with higher incidence of endometrial cancer. Hot flushes, n/v in 25%
PK, PD, Uses and AEs
For Raloxefene
- PK- High first pass metabolism, large Vd and long half life once daily for prevention of post menopausal osteoporosis
- PD- Antagonist at the breast and endometrium, agonist at bone
- Uses- Prevention of post-menopausal osteoporosis delays or prevent bone regression does not increase endometrial cancer, prophylactic use for high risk breast cancer
Chlomiphene
PK, PD, Uses and AEs
- PK- Orally available, once daily for 5 days, dose must be repeated each month as it induces one ovulation
- PD- Antagonist in the hypothalamus and anterior pit gland, partial agonist in ovaries. Causes negative feedback inhibition by estrogen blackade, causing increase in GnRH, LH and FHS release, triggers ovulation. Stimulates ovulation in women with oligomenorrhea and ovulatory dysfunction
- Uses- Treat disorders of ovulation in women wanting to become pregnant not useful for ovarian or pituitary failure
- AEs- Mild menopausal type Rxn like hot flushes, occasional eye involvement, intesified and prolonged after images, HA, Constipation, allergic skin rxns, reversible hair loss, can cause multiple folicles to grow leading to increased incidence of multiple births 10%
- Ovarian enlargement due to developments of multiple follicles
- Hormone change SEs- N/V, depression, fatigue, breast soreness
3 third gen SERMs
- Bazedoxifene
- Lasofoxifene
- Ospemifene
What are SERMs
What is their basis for tissue selectivity? 3 things
Estrogenic agents often mixed agonists and antagonists dependent on tissue examined
- estrogen receptor subtype expression
- expression of co-activators
- expression of co-repressors
SERMs and Tissue
Know where the agonists and antagonists are
All of the ones we went over
What do SERMs take advantage of to give them there selectivity?
- Tissue specific receptor expression
- Transcription factor recruitment to estrogen receptor is specific to tissues
Bazedoxifene
Used in combination with?
Approved for the tx of?
Agonist where? What does this reduce?
No increase in what type of cancer?
No increase in ____ and reduction in?
Bazedoxifene with conjugated estrogens approved for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms and prevention of osteoporosis
- Reduces fractures
- no increase in breast cancer
- no increase in endometrial thickness and reduction in endometrial cancer
Ospemifene
Used to treat what?
PK?
Agonist effects? But is not associated with strong?
AEs? 4 Kind of serious ones
- Moderate to severe dysparenuria
- Oral
- Effects vaginal epilthelium but not associated with strong endometrial stimulation
- lots of vasomotor symptoms, sweating, stroke, blood clots
Lasofaxifene
Approved in europe for?
Increases, and reduces?
Increases endometrial _____ but no increase in?
AEs? 1
- Post-menopausal osteoporosis
- Increases bone density, reduces fracturs
- Reduces risk of breast cancer
- Increases endometrial thickness bit no increase in endometrial cancer
- AEs- PRominent vasomotor symptoms
Aromatase Inhibitors 3 but really only have to remember 1
- Anastrozole
- Letrozole
- Exemestane
PD of Aromatase inhibitors?
Anastrozole, Letrozole-
Exemestane -
Uses
AEs
- Competitive inhibitors of aromatase
- Irreversible inhibitors via covalent binding
- Estrogen is synthesized from androgens by aromatase is its blocking that
- Treat estrogen dependent tumors, especially metastic breast cancer with surgical and radiation therapy
- AEs- Increased risk of osteporosis associated fractures
Endometriosis
Growth of endometrial tissue where?
____ growth in areas surrounding 4 areas?
Etiology
- Outside of the uterus
- fallopian tube, ovaries, rectovaginal pouch and unterine ligaments
- Retrograde migration of endometrial tissue via fallopian tube, metastic growth from peritoneum
- This shit increase aromatase activity in the endometrial tissue.
Progesterone antagonists
1
mifepristone RU486
PD and Uses of the one progesterone antagonist
AEs
What is it used in combination with?
- PR bloackade destabolizes the unterine lining resulting in detachment of the blastocyct from the uterus
- Postcoital contraceptice within 72 hours
- Induce abortion in the first trimester, used with misoprostol a prostaglandin analogue to induce uterine contraction
- Aes- Vomiting/Di, ab or pelvic pain, lots of vag bleeding
Testosterone
PK, uses, AEs
- Not orally effective due to high first pass, available as transdermal patch and tompical gel, tablet for sublingal
- Uses- Androgen replacement therapy, for hypogonadalmales, anabolic
- Masculinizing effects in women and children, sodium retention and edema, hepatic dysfunction common and proportional to dose, Acne, sleep apnea, erythrocystosis, gynecomastia, azespermia
Androgen Antagonists
2
Flutamide
Spironolactone
What are these and what are their uses?
Flutamide
Spironolactone
- Androgen Antagonists
- Flutamide- Tx of metastic prostate cancer and used for tx of BPH
- Spiron- aldosterone antagonist and androgen receptor antagonists used for the tx of hirsutism in women
5 alpha reductase inhibitor 1
Finesteride
Finesteride
What is it?
PK, Uses, AEs
- Orally available
- Rapid onset of action
- Uses- BPH, prostate cell dependent on androgen for survival, slows growth of prostate tissue, 1 year reduced 25%, bald
- AEs- Decreased libido, and ED, depression
Anterior Pituitary
Growth Hormones Def
- How can this type of def occur? 2 ways
- What characteristics in children?
- Generalized _____, reduce ____ ____, _____ and reduced ____ in adults,
- What are the types of defs?
- Growth Hormone Deficiency
- What is the synthetic GHRH?
- How is administered what form?
- What does it treat?
- AEs?
- Genetic or acquired
- Short stature with mild adiposity in children
- Generalized obesity, reduced muscle mass, asthenia and reduced cardiac output in adults
- GH insensitivity, secondary, tertiary
- Semorelin- Parenteral Admin only, Used to tx GHRH def, Flushing, chest tightness, injection site rxns, and development of antibodies