Exam 2 Material Flashcards
Science of interactions of chemical compounds with biological systems, how and where drugs act
Pharmacology
Study of biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and the mechanisms of their actions, including the correlation of their actions and effects with their chemical structure
Pharmacodynamics
The study of absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and elimination of xenobiotics
Pharmacokinetics
Characteristics of drugs
Defined by actions, most act on receptors
Endogenous drugs
foreign to the body, include toxins/poisons
Where endogenous ligands bind
orthosteric site
Receptor where gastric acid is neutralized by antacids
Extracellular receptor
Receptor used to treat infections, cancer therapy, hormones like estrogen
Intracellular receptor
Receptor of acetylcholine, muscarinic, nicotinic, GF receptors
Cell surface receptor
Drug that binds to a receptor and stimulates a biological response
Agonist
Drug that binds to a receptor without altering receptor function, alters interaction of receptor with another drug
Antagonist
Drug must achieve adequate concentrations at site of action to produce characteristic effect
Purpose of drug therapy
T/F No drug has a single effect
True
KD measures
Affinity, determines potency
Lower KD means
Higher affinity
Cheng Prusoff
Ki = IC50/[1+L/KD]
Total number of receptors on given cell or tissue
Bmax
Affinity of ligand for the receptor identified at 1/2 Bmax
KD
DOR,KOR,MOR question
Most selective for DOR - low ki value for DOR, high for MOR and KOR
Least selective - close values of ki for DOR, MOR, and KOR
Binding of an agonist results in
induced fit that activates the receptor