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General Principles Flashcards

1
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Studies how the drug affects the body?

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Pharmacodynamics

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Studies how the body affects the drug including the Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion and Elimination ( metabolism + excretion)

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Pharmacokinetics

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3
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Amount of drug needed to produce a given effect.

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Potency

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4
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Graph of dose/ drug concentration versus fraction of population that responds at each dose.

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Quantal dose response curve

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5
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Graph of dose / drug concentration versus response.

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Dose response curve

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6
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Drugs with narrow therapeutic index? (10)

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AVA has a Narrow Heart ( Digoxin) leads to WAR (warfarin) with her Brain
1. Aminoglycoside 🦠
2. Vancomycin 🦠
3. Amphotericin B 🦠
4. Digoxin ❤️
5. Lithium 🧠
6. Warfarin 🩸
7. Carbamazepine 🧠
8. Phenytoin 🧠
9. Phenobarbital 🧠
10. Theophylline 🧠

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7
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A drug that produces less than the full effect , even when it has saturated the receptors.

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Partial agonist

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8
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Type of antagonism between propranolol & Isoproterenol?

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Pharmacologic : interacts with the receptor site.

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9
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Type of antagonism between pralidoxime and organophosphate?

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Chemical Antagonist: interacts directly with the drug being antagonized.

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10
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Frequent or continuous exposure to agonists often results to short term diminution of the receptor response.

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Tachyphylaxis

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11
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Properties of the drugs that favors absorption?

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LUNA
1. Lipid soluble
2. Unionized
3. Neutral
Absorbed

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12
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A factor inversely proportional to the rate of diffusion , based on Fick’s Law.

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Membrane thickness

Fick’s Law
Directly proportional :
concentration gradient, permeability coefficient, surface area

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13
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Reflects the fraction of administered drug that reaches the systemic circulation?

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Bioavailability

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14
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Steady state is reached after how many half-lives ?

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3 to 4

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15
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Acidic drugs bind to which protein?

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Albumin

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16
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Basic drugs bind to which protein? (2)

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  1. Orosomucoid
  2. a-1 acid glycoprotein
17
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Reactions involved in Phase 1 metabolism? (4)

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HORD
1. Hydrolysis
2. Oxidation
3. Reduction
4. Deamination

18
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Barbiturates are enzyme inducers except?

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Secobarbital

19
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Cytochrome P450 Inducers ? (8)

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“Smoke Sa BGC , PRE”
1. Smoking
2. St Johns Wort
3. Barbiturates except secobarbital
4. Griseofulvin
5. Carbamazepine
6. Phenytoin
7. Rifampicin
8. Ethanol

20
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Common CYP 450 Inhibitors. (10)

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“ Quin , SICK GRAVE”
1. Quinidine
2. Sulfonamides
3. Isoniazid
4. Cimetidine
5. Ketoconazole
6. Grape fruit juice
7. Ritonavir ( on acute ingestion)
8. Amiodarone
9. Valporic acid
10. Erythromycin

21
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Type of elimination wherein rate of elimination is proportionate to the concentration?

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First order elimination

22
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Type of elimination wherein rate of elimination is constant regardless of the concentration?

A

Zero order elimination / Saturable / Michaelis - Menten Kinetics

23
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What drugs display zero order elimination kinetics? (7)

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WHAT PET

  1. Warfarin 🩸
  2. Heparin🩸
  3. Aspirin 🩸
  4. Tolbutamide 🍭
  5. Phenytoin 🧠
  6. Ethanol🧠
  7. Theophylline 🧠
24
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The most important pharmacokinetics parameter to be considered in defining a rational steady state during dosage regimen?

A

Clearance

25
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The Cockcroft- Gault equation is used to estimate _______.

A

Clearance

26
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Teratogenic effect of Diethylstillbestrol?

A

Vaginal clear cell adenocarcinoma

( Diethylstillbesong)

27
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Teratogenic effect of thalidomide?

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Phocomelia

28
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Teratogenic effect of methimazole?

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Aplasia cutis congenita

29
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Teratogenic effect of Lithium ?

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Ebstein anomaly

30
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Teratogenic effect of isotritinoine?

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Craniofacial malformations

31
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Teratogenic effect of Penicillamine?

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Cutis laxa

32
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Teratogenic effect of warfarin per trimester?

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1st - Chondrodysplasia
2nd- CNS Malformation
3rd- Bleeding diathesis

33
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A drug with insufficient human studies but was found to be unsafe in animal studies is categorized as what Pregnancy category?

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Category C

PREGNANCY CATEGORY
A- Safe human, Safe animal
B- No study in human, safe to animals
B- Safe human, unsafe to animals
C- No studies human, unsafe to animals
C- No studies human, no studies animal
D- unsafe to human & animals but benefits outweigh risks
X- unsafe to human but risk outweighs the benefits

34
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Phase of clinical trial involving healthy human volunteers.

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Phase I

35
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Phase of clinical trial wherein drug is tested in 100-200 of patients with the target disease?

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Phase 2

Clinical Trials Sample Size
Phase I : Is it Safety ? <100 people
Phase II: Is it effective? >100 nmt 1000
Phase III: Is it safe & effective? >1000
Phase IV: Post marketing surveillance

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