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Intro. to medicines 1 Flashcards

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Drug def.

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Chemical substance that interacts with a part of the body (by binding to specific cell receptor) to alter existing physiological/biochemical processes. Principle active ingredient in medicine.

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Drug Function

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Diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, cure or prevention of disease.

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Pharmaceutical Dosage Form Def.

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Form medicine is taken by patient Eg: tablet, syrup

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Why do dosage forms have unique formulations

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Drug combined with other suitable ingredients

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What does a patient take

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Dosage form

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Regulation (function)

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Ensures medicines are of a certain quality

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Ideal Dosage Form Qualities

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1 dose is a manageable size, palatable, stable, easy to use, reach receptors quickly with minimal side effects, capable of large scale manufacture

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Different aspects of Drug Stability

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Chemical, Microbiological and Physical

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Chemical Stability Def.

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Molecules in drug don’t break down into different shapes. Eg resistance to oxidation

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Microbiological Stability

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No. of micro-organisms/endotoxins must remain the same. Eg eyedrops are sterile

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Physical Stability

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Tablet shouldn’t change state. Eg precipitating of liquid medicine in fridge

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carboxyl group is sensitive to

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water

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Micromolecule

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A molecule less then 500 daltons in size

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Macromolecule

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A molecule greater then 500 Daltons in size

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Excipients Def.

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Non-drug ingrediants added to dosage form ensuring formulation routinely meets ideal qualities .No pharmacological effect

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Pharmacy & Toxicology

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Risk/ benefit association. Interaction of drugs with human body

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4 Feilds of Pharmacuetical Sciences

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Pharmacy & Toxicology, Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry + Pharmaceutics

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Pharmacognosy

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Discovery and use of natural products

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Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry

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Libraries and Archives of past trials

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Pharmacuetics

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Converts drug to dosage form

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Physicochemical Properties Examples

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Water solubility, molecular weight, stability in solid/liquid forms, enzymatic degradation, taeget receptor location + selectivity

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Potential Barriers to Absorption

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Solubility, Permeability, stability

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Preformulation Science DEf.

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determines physical and chemical properties of a drug before it’s formulated. Evaluate bio-availability

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Formulation Science

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Create dosage forms for non-human animals. Includes stages formulation Dev. eg identifyingexcipients + Process Developments Eg state of dosage form

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Aspects of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology

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INdustrial Processes + procedures, unit operation, good manufacturing practice, quality control (eg tablet ability to dissolve), process analytical technology and good lab practice

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Pharmaceutical Qualative Analysis

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what you have. eg drug analysis, excipitent, dosage form and in vivo analysis

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Pharmaceutical Quantative Analysis

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how much you have. Eg stability trsting using RP-HPLC

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Pharmacology Def.

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Study of interaction of drugs with the human body

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Pharmacodynamics

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Pharmacology branch. Effects of drugs on body

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Pharmacokinetics

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Pharmacology branch. Concerned with effects body has on therapeutic drugs

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Biopharmacuetics DEf.

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Study of factors affecting availability of drug + using info to optimise drug pharmacological activity in clinical progression. Studies relationship between drug physiochemical properties with pharmalogical, toxicological and efficacy after dosage form administration

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Drug Delivery Def,

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Specialist area involving delivery system designs for safe and efficacious medicine dosage

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Regulatory Bodies

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Health Products Regulation Agency (Irish, EMA subgroup), European Medicines Agency, Food Drug Administration

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Pharmacophore Def

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Functional group in drug that cell receptors recognise

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