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MICROBIOLOGY PART 1 303 > Intro to drug kinetics and drug toxicity - part 2 > Flashcards

Intro to drug kinetics and drug toxicity - part 2 Flashcards

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1
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How are drugs administered?

A 
Intravenous
Intramuscular
Subcutaneous 
Topical
Inhalation - rapid, targeted
Oral - portal circulation - 1st pass metabolism
Sublingual - rapid, no 1st pass
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Pharmacokynetic - what happens to drugs?

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Absorption, metabolism, distributed and excreted

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Where is a drug absorbed?

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Gut to blood to ECF to ICF by passive diffusion

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What is gastric emptying critical for?

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Drug absorption

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Where are most drugs absorbed? Why?

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Intestine as SA is greater her than the stomach

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What is bioavailability?

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Fraction of unchanged drug reaching the system circulation following any route of administration
(proportion of the drug which enters the systems circulation following an route of admin)

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What does bioavailability depend on?

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Absorption
First pass metabolism
Food: can decrease the oral availability of sparingly lipid soluble drugs (i.e. atenolol oral availability decreased by 50% by food)

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8
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State the bioavailability of different drugs

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Lidocaine 15%
Propanolol 20%
Moprhine 30%
Paracetamol 57%
Theophilline 81%
Diazepam 97%
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Drug distribution - physiochemical properties of the drug?

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Molecular size
Oil/water partition coefficient
Degree of ionization that depends on pKa
Protein binding

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Drug distribution - Physiological factors?

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Organ or tissue size
Blood flow rate
Physiological barriers;
- blood capillary membrane
- cell membrane
- specialised barriers
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What do acid drugs mainly bind to?

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Albumin (plasma protein)

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What do basic drugs mainly bind to?

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α1-acid glycoprotein (plasma proteins)

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Plasma protein - What does displacement of one acid drug by another acid drug result in?

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Transient increase of free drug concentration

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What does an increase in the free drug concentration result in?

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Increase in the clearance of the free drug form the circulation

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Rate of drug distribution - perfusion limited tissue distribution? Permeability rate limitations or membrane barriers?

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Perfusion-limited tissue distribution;

  • Immediate equilibrium of drug in blood and tissue
  • Only limited by blood flow
  • Highly perfused; liver, kidneys, lung, brain
  • Poorly perfused; skin, fat, bone, muscle

Permeability rate limitations or membrane barriers;

  • Blood brain barrier
  • Blood testis barrier
  • Placenta
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16
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What does the blood brain barrier do?

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Acidic brain cells trap ionised weak base as no pores

17
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What does the placenta barrier allow diffusion of and what does it resist?

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Sugars, fats and oxygen diffuse from mother’s blood to fetus
Urea and CO2 diffuse from fetus to mother
Maternal antibodies actively transported across placenta
Some resistance to disease (passive immunity)
Most bacteria are blocked
Many viruses can pass including rubella, chickenpox, mono, sometimes HIV
Many drugs are toxins and can pass including alcohol, heroin, mercury

18
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What drugs easily pass the placenta barrier?

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Lipid soluble and mostly un-ionised drugs pass more easily compared to more polar and ionised ones

19
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How are dugs eliminated?

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Drug is oxidised or conjugated = metabolite or stable adducts formed = renal elimination or biliary elimination

20
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How are drugs metabolised?

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De-activation;

  • Decrease of pharmacological effect
  • Decrease toxicity

Activation;

  • Increase pharmacological effect
  • Increase toxicity

Conjugate formed and excreted

21
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Phase I reactions of metabolism?

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Intro/exposure of a polar group by oxidation, reduction or hydrolysis
Metabolites = polar = excreted
C-H group can be turned into a C-OH converting non pharmacological active compound into active
Toxic compound can be created

22
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Phase II reactions of metabolism?

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Attachment of an endogenous molecule to a drug or Phase I metabolite, glucoronide, sulphate, acetyl

Outcome products = heavier in m.w. = less effective

23
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What is a major difference between phase I and phase II reactions?

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Phase I predominantly produces more active compounds while Phase II produces less active

24
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What are the enzymes of drug metabolism - phase I and II?

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Phase I - Oxidation;
- Cytochrome P450;
In liver
Several forms of cytochrome
Varying substrate specificity
Catalytic activities show large inter-individual difference
Phase II; Conjugation;
- Transferases; 
Glucoronyl-
Sulpho-
Acetyl-
Methyl-
25
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Cytochrome 3A4

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Inhibitors;

  • Reduce clearance = increase blood levels
  • E.g erytromycin

Inducers;

  • Increase clearance = decrease blood levels
  • E.g Phenytoin
26
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What is genetic polymorphism?

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Occurrence of variant form of an enzyme/receptor through inheritance of drug metabolising enzymes
Most clinically studies - CYP2C9, CY2C19, CYP2D6

27
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CYP2D6 polymorphism? What does this result in?

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8% caucasians lack CYP2D6

Poorer metaboliser for CV, psychiatric and opiate drugs

28
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How does biliary excretion occur?

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Bile is secreted by hepatic cells of the liver
Absorption of fats
90% of bile acid is reabsorbed from intestine and transported back to the liver for resecretion
More metabolites are excreted in bile than parent drugs due to increased polarity

29
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What factors influence the secretion of bile?

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Molecular weight (i.e. > 300)
Polarity (higher polarity more bile excretion)
Nature of biotransformation
Gender, diseases, drug interactions

30
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How do drugs and bile interact?

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Some drugs and metabolites excreted by liver cells into bile, pass into the intestine.
Reabsorption from the gut during the process of enterohepatic recycling may prolong the pharmacological effect of a drug

31
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Which drugs are renally eliminated?

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Water soluble
Ionised
E.g Digoxin

32
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Which drugs are hepatically eliminated?

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Lipid soluble
Un-ionised
E.g propanolol, cyclosporin

33
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Nephron’s structure and their functions?

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Glomerular filtration; (120ml/min)

  • Only unbound protein filtered
  • Negligible for high protein bound drugs

Distal tubule; passive reabsorption;

  • Lipid solubility
  • Water soluble drugs - Urine
  • Lipid soluble drugs; Blood
  • Only un-ionised drug
  • Changes in urine pH important for weak acids/bases
Proximal tubule; active secretion;
- Free and bound drug secreted
- Highly cleared drugs: Renal blood flow
- Two pump: Acids (uric) e.g. Penicillin, Thiazide diuretics
Base e.g. Pancuronium

Glomerular filtration and active secretion = add drug to tubular fluid
Passive reabsorption = transfers it back into the blood

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Renal clearance?

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Excretion = Filtration + Secretion - Reabsorption

GFR = 120ml/min
(if kidney not working as well = lower GFR = less elimination of drug = drugs build up)
CLR = Rate of excretion
Plasma concentration
>GFR – net secretion
< GFR – net reabsorption
= GFR – secretion = reabsorption or filtration only

35
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What determines the renal clearance of a drug?

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Net contribution of filtration, secretion and reabsorption

36
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What is the therapeutic index? Higher therapeutic index means?

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Margin between the therapeutic dose and the toxic dose.

Higher the therapeutic index is safer the drug is.

37
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What factors effect metabolism?

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HIGH blood level
Excessive dosing and/or decreased clearance risk of TOXICITY
Decreased clearance;
- Normal variation
- Saturable metabolism
- Genetic enzyme deficiency
- Renal failure
- Liver failure
- Age (neonate or elderly)
- Enzyme inhibition

LOW blood level
Dose to low or clearance to high risk of NO EFFECT
Increased clearance;
- Normal variation
- Poor absorption - High first pass metabolism
- Non compliance
- Enzyme induction

Environmental
Disease
Genetic
Age
Drug interaction

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