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EXCRETION Flashcards

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Excretion definition

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Excretion is the passage out of systemically absorbed drugs

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Sites of secretion

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Urine, GIT, Exhaled air, Sweat, Milk, Saliva

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Renal excretion happens in 3 phases

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1) Glomerular filtration
2) Tubular reabsorption
3) Tubular secretion

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What is filtered during glomerular filtration

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All non-protein bound drug whether lipid-soluble or lipid-insoluble is filtered

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Glomerular filtration of a drug depends on ……………….. and …………

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its plasma protein binding ……… renal blood flow.

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Tubular reabsorption occurs by ……

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passive diffusion

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Tubular reabsorption depends on

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Lipid solubility and ionization of the drug at the existing urinary pH

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What drugs are reabsorbed by the tubules

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Lipid-soluble drugs only

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What type of drug is less absorbed in acidic urine?

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Weak bases because they are more ionized

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What type of drug is less absorbed in alkaline urine?

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Weak acids because they are more ionized

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How to eliminate a drug in poisined person?

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Urine in alkanized in barbiturate and salicylate and asprin poisoning

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Tubular secretion definition

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It is the active transfer of organic acids and bases by 2 seperate classes of relatively non-specific transporters present at the proximal tubules

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The gates at the proximal tubules are highly specific so they are site of ……..

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Drug competition and drug interactions

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Weak acid drug examples

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Penicillin, uric acid, probenecid

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Weak base drugs examples:

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Digoxin , quinidine

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16
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How to decrease urinary excretion of penicillin?

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Add probenecid

17
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How to decrease urinary excretion of digoxin?

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Add Quinidine

18
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Quinidine is used to treat ….

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Heart arrhythmias

19
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What is excreted through saliva?

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Iodine, morphine and heavy metals

20
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What is excreted through stomach?

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Morphine

21
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What is excreted through large intestine?

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Unabsorbed oral drugs or bile excreted drugs

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What is excreted through bile?

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Some can be absorbed and enter the enterohepatic circulation like morphine and digitoxin
Some antibiotics are excreted in bile like ampicillin and rifampicin used to treat typhoid fever

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What is excreted through exhaled air?

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Gases and volatile liquids (general anesthetics and alcohol)

24
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What is excreted through sweat?

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Heavy metals and rafimpicin

25
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What is excreted through milk?

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MOst drugs enter breast milk by passive diffusion

Example: Morphine, purgatives and tetracycline

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