Final Flashcards
Gaucher disease drug does what?
Glucocerebroside builds up attack WBC, b/c lack Enz. Imiglucerase to convert it to glucose ceramide which is inoffensive. Cerezyme 25 000$ a month replace the imiglucerase.
Tool to redirect pain?
Lebenswecker
Possible founder of first anesthetics
Raymond 1200s, sweet vitriol, possibly contained diethyl ether
First to make N2O
Joseph Priestley 1772, by heating ammonium nitrate
Discovered breathing N2O euphoric effects?
Sir Humprey Davy 1800s
Simultaneous discovery of anesthetics used in surgery?
William T.G. Morton used ether 1844 to operate on John Collin William
Horace Wells used N2O for tooth removal 1844
Credited with the discovery of ether?
Dr. Crawford Long 1848 he published
Inventor of chloroform
James Simpson 1847
1st to used curare in operation
Dr. Harold Griffith 1942
Found in urine after poppy intake
Thebaine
Bernard Belleau (McGill) invented?
Stadol - Butorphanol
Chinese red-headed centipede venom action
Block NA+ channel linked to pain
Frog Epibatidine potent component?
ABT-594 = morphine
Cone Shell venom
Ziconotide = 500X potent than morphine
OTTA Loewi 20s discovered?
Stimulation vagus nerve in frog slowed HR. Discovered Neurotransmitters (acetylcholine)