Drugs & Your Body Flashcards
Learning outcomes
After completing this lecture, you should be able to
* distinguish between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
* describe drug and three types of drug name and their characteristics for a marketed drug
* describe drug target and list four groups of human proteins as drug targets
* describe a select number of drugs explored in PHAR1101 in terms of (i) classification of drug
target, (ii) drug target, (iii) drug action, and (iv) clinical use
* provide the full name and describe the main characteristics of four receptor superfamilies
* describe agonist, antagonist, affinity, efficacy, concentration/dose-response relationship,
potency, and EC50 in the context of ligand-receptor interaction and therapeutic index
* describe the action of morphine in the context of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
PHAR1101 and the Pharmacology major
From pharmacokinetics to pharmacodynamics
Types of drug name
Drugs
Drug targets
Drug targets - human proteins
Interaction between a drug and its drug target
Drug targets - human proteins
Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 selective inhibitors
Receptors as drug targets
Ligand-receptor interaction (I)
Ligand-receptor interaction (II)Dose-effect relationship
Therapeutic index
Ligand-receptor interaction (III)
Dose-effect relationship
Drug in action - morphine (I)
Drug in action - morphine (II)