general principles lect 1 Flashcards

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pharmacodynamics

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biochemical and physiological effects and mechanisms (what drugs do to the body)

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pharmacokinetics

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absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of drugs (what body does to drugs)

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measures the ability of a drug to bind to a receptora

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affinity

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Kd

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equilibrium dissociation constant: concentration of free drug when binding is at 50%

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relationship between Kd and affinity

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the lower the Kd, the higher the affinity

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efficacy (intrinsic activity)

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measure of biological response resulting from binding of a drug - determines maximal response that can be obtained with a drug

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potency

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dose (amount of drug) required to produce a desired effect

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EC50

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concentration required for half-maximal effect

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relationship between EC50 and potency

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lower the EC50 the more potent the drug

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10
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binds to receptor and initiates a response

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agonist (full vs partial)

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binds to receptor but does not initiate a response

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antagonist (inhibits response to an agonist) -competitive vs non-competitive

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binds to different receptor site than agonist and alters the reponse to agonist

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allosteric activators and inhibitors

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interaction between drug and receptor is reversible unless they are bound by what kind of bond

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covalent

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at drug-receptor equilibrium, how many receptors are bound?

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half of the receptors are bound; half are free

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efficacy (alpha; intrinsic activity) is the ability of a drug to initiate a response; if there is a 100% response, Alpha = ?; if there is a 0% reponse, alpha = ?

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1; 0

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16
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what type of agonist have affinity and intrinsic activity (alpha = 1)

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full agonist

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what type of agonist have affinity but no intrinsic activity (alpha = 0)

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antagonist

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what type of agonist have affinity but lower intrinsic activity (0

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partial agonist

19
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What Emax?

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Emax: response produced will increase with increasing drug concentration until a maximal response is reached

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what is Emax a function of

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  • amt of drug - ability to evoke a response - the number of available receptors
21
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plotting %biological effect vs log[drug] gives what types of curve. what effect does this have on theraputic effect and toxicity

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sigmoid curve - expands the scale at low concentrations where the response increases rapidly (theraputic effect) and contracts at high concentrations where the response is not changing as quickly (toxicity)

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in graded dose-response curves, what does the slope of the curve indicate

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how rapidly the response changes when the dose in increased. Steep slopes are risky (small theraputic window)

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What do quantal dose-response curves measure

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frequency with which a response will occur to a given dose within a population - “all or none effect” - frequency of response is measured - determines doses that produce therapeutic and lethal effects

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How is therapeutic ratio measured in humans

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TD50 (toxic dose)/ED50: (LD50= dose that is toxic in 50% of population that recieves the drug). ex: if TR = 4 and 100mg is effective in 50% of population; then 400mg is lethal in 50% of population

* animal studies can use LD50: lethal dose

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Margin of safety
= LD1/ED99 - higher the margin of safety, safer the drug
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how does number of receptors affect sensitivity of a cell to a drug
the more receptors, the more sensitive a cell is to a drug
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when do spare receptors exist
when it is possible to elicit a maximum biological response without occupying all of the available receptors
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when spare receptors exist, the concentration-response curve (ED50) is shifted to what side
shifted to smaller concentrations-\> to the left
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what is the relationship between EC50 and Kd when there are spare receptors
EC50 is lower than Kd \* maximal response still produced due to amplification of the cell signaling mechanism
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clinical implications of spare receptors
use a lower dose
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how is potency determined on a dose response curve
postion along the x-axis; a drug is more potent if a curve is located near the left side of the x-axis; a drug is less potent is a curve is located near the right side of the x-axis ex: Drug X is more potent than Drug Y
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Drug + receptor -\> [DR]; what is the rate constant for DR association
K1
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[DR] -\> Drug + receptor; what is the rate constant for DR dissociation
K2
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What is Kd in terms of K1 and K2
Kd=K2/K1; if Kd is low; dissociation is slow and binding affinity is high and vice versa
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in most cases, ED50 and Kd are the same; name a case in which they aren't
spare receptors; ED50 is lower than Kd
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drugs that act on the same receptor but have a lower affinity for the receptor will show what ED50 compared to a drug that has a high affinity for a receptor
lower ED50
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threshold dose
dose below which no response is observed
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what is theraputic ratio
range of concentrations in which likelihood of efficacy is high and the probability of adverse effects is low