exam 3 Flashcards
ADME stands for
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion
Characteristics determined by concentration vs time profile
Onset, duration, intensity
Time between administration and pharmacological effect
Onset
How high the concentration is
Intensity
Length of time above MEC
duration
Minimum effective concentration
MEC
The study of the absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and elimination of xenobiotics
Pharmacokinetics
The study of the molecular, biochemical, and physiological effects of xenobiotics and their mechanisms of actions
Pharmacodynamics
Patho, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics make up
pharmacotherapeutics
Most rapid onset route
Intravenous
Slowest onset route
Oral
Routes of administration
Ingestion, Inhalation, Dermal, Parenteral
IV, SC, IM, Intraperitoneal equal what route
Parenteral
Reduction of absorption impacts
intensity and duration
Reduction of speed of entry impacts
Onset
AI phenobarbital to hydroxyphenobarbital
Hydroxylation
AA procainamide to N-acetylprocainamide
acetylation
IA codeine to morphine
demethylation
AR
acetaminophen to reactive metabolite
Major routes of excretion
Renal (kidney) is primary
Biliary (feces)
Other routes of excretion
Pulmonary, salivary, mammary
Which antibiotic is a better choice in a patient with renal failure?
The one eliminated in bile not urine
Barriers that may reduce amount of drug that reaches site of action
gut wall metabolism, degraded in stomach, dose distributing away from target tissue, can’t enter membranes, enzymes
The fate of a drug once it enters the systemic circulation
Disposition
A chemical that is normally foreign to the body includes drugs, occupational chemicals, environmental compounds
Xenobiotic
___ percent of problems used to be from ADME, now its ___ percent
40%, 10%
___ barriers like the BBB can significantly reduce the amount of drug that enters the site of action
Tissue
Morphine is a metabolite of codeine and this metabolite is responsible for the analgesic effect when codeine is administered. In a patient who has a genetic defect such that they cannot metabolize codeine, the magnitude of pain relief would be expected to be _____ compared to normal patients.
Decreased
Factors that determine movement of a drug across membranes
Characteristics of membrane, mechanism of passage, swell time, physiochemical characteristics, pH of microenvironment, surface area
Why does most oral drug absorption occur in the small intestine?
Inner wall of small intestine covered by folds of kerckring plicae circulares, surface contain tiny villi and microvilli that increase surface area
food transit time in mouth
1 min
food transit time in esophagus
4- seconds
food transit time in stomach
2-4 hours
food transit time in small intestine
3-5 hours
food transit time in colon
10 hours to days
Carrier mediated transport examples
Facilitated diffusion and active transport
95% of drugs are absorbed by
passive transcellular diffusion
Transcellular permeability can be increased by
removing charged ionized groups, increasing lipophilicity, reducing size
The passive movement of drug through lipid membranes driven by concentration gradient
Transcellular diffusion
The passive movement of drug between cells via tight junctions driven by concentration gradient
Paracellular diffusion
A carrier mediated process that involves a transport protein which moves drug with a concentration gradient
facilitated diffusion
A carrier mediated process that involves a transport protein which moves drug against a concentration gradient
active transport
A process in which a cell engulfs and internalizes a particle
Endocytosis
Primary site of absorption after oral administration because of high surface area
small intestine
altered by food or drugs, influences extent and rate of drug absorption
gastrointestinal transit time
carrier mediated is different than passive because its
saturable and subject to drug drug interactions
Selectively move substrates across cell membranes
transporter proteins
remove drugs from cells that have entered via passive diffusion, can reduce the amount of drug that accumulates in certain tissue such as the brain
Efflux transporters
Slowing gastric emptying would be expected to have which effect on the absorption of a drug absorbed by passive diffusion?
it will take longer to reach peak concentration
Which moves mechanisms down a concentration gradient?
Paracellular, transcellular, facilitated diffusion
Co-administration of an inhibitor of the efflux protein p-glycoprotein would have what effect on the oral absorption of a drug that is a substrate for pgp?
The inhibitor will increase the amount of drug absorbed