Intro Flashcards
Prescription highlight?
Highlight of prescribing information
Contain FPI
FPI?
Full prescribing information
Contain detailed info
Pharmacology?
Pharmacognosy, kinetic, dynamic, therapeutic and toxicology
Application of clinical pharmacology?
Clinical trials
NDA
New drug application 💌
Pharmacogenetic?
Pharmacogenomics is the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs. This field combines pharmacology (the science of drugs) and genomics (the study of genes and their functions)
Drug exposure & response?
Exposure: measure of amount of drug concentration in plasma or other biological fluid (Cmax,Cmin, Css, AUC)
Response: drug pharmacological effect
Toxicokinetics vs clinical toxicology?
Toxicokinetics: use of pharmacokinetics in drug safety evaluation study in drug design
C.t: study of adverse effects of drug and toxic substances in body 👁️
Method of sampling of biologic specimen?
- Inversive: sampling blood , spinal fluid, tissue biopsy, synovial fluid etc
- non inversive: without surgery: sampling urine , feces , expired air etc
Serum vs plasma
Serum is the liquid that remains after the clotting of blood. Whereas, plasma is the liquid that remains when anticoagulant is added to prevent clotting
Serum= Plasma - clotting factors
plasma drug concentration time curve
Obtain by Drug concentration in plasma sample taken at different times interval
Plasma level 🎚️ vs time curve ⏱️
TDM
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Branch of clinical pharmacology
Measurements of specific drug at designated interval to maintain a constant concentration in patient blood stream
Therapeutic index ☝️
Ratio between dosage of drug causing toxic and therapeutic effect
Lethal or toxic dose (TD 50) TI ==------------------------------------------------- Medium effective dose (ED 50)
Td50 50% toxicity
Ed 50 % therapeutic effective
Therapeutic window
Range of dosage that cause therapeutic effect without causing significant side effects
TW = MEC:MTC
AUC
AUC (areas under curve)is the total integrated area under the plasma drug concentration–time curve. It expresses the total amount of drug that comes into systemic circulation .