General Pharmacomogy

Question 1

What are pro drugs?
4 points

Answer 1

Prodrug is a pharmacologically inactive derivative of an active drug and undergoes in vivo biotransformation to release the active drug by chemical or enzymatic contact

Question 2

What is bioavailability
3 things

Answer 2

is the fraction of an administered drug that reaches the systemic circulation following absorption

Question 3

What is an agonist
3 points

Answer 3

substance that mimics the actions of a neurotransmitter or hormone to produce a response when it binds to a specific receptor

Question 4

What’s an antagonist?

Answer 4

a substance that stops the action or effect of another substance. For example, a drug that blocks the stimulating effect of estrogen on a tumor cell is called an estrogen receptor antagonist.

Question 5

What is pharmacokinetics?

Answer 5

It is the study of process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized & eliminated by the body. this process involves its passage across cell
membranes. ADME

Question 6

What is pharmacodynamics the study of on the body (3 things)?

Answer 6

the study of the biochemical, physiological and molecular effects of drugs on the body and involves receptor binding

Question 7

What’s an enzyme?
What is it almost always?
4 words

Answer 7

biological catalyst

speeds up rate of a specific chemical reaction in the cell. The enzyme is not destroyed during the reaction and is used over and over.

Almost always a protein

Question 8

What does congestive heart failure mean and what would this produce

Answer 8

Both left and right sided
Pulmonary congestion and peripheral oedema