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Introduction To Pharmacology Flashcards

1
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What are the divisions of Pharmacology

4PCNET

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  • Clinical Pharmacology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Pharmacogenetics/-genomics
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Toxicology
  • Posology
  • Pharmacognosy
  • Environmental Pharmacology
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Division that encompasses all aspects of the relationship between drugs and humans

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Clinical Pharmacology

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Division pf pharmacology under the discipline of neuroscience that aims to understand the actions of drugs on neurobiological processes in the mammalian nervous system

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Neuropharmacology

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Division that studies genetic causes of individual variations in drug response or simultaneous impact of multiple mutations in the genome that may determine the patient’s response to drug therapy.

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Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics

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Division that focuses on the utilization and effects of drugs in large numbers of people (usually as a part of post-marketing surveillance)

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Pharmacoepidemiology

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Division of pharmacology that studies the mechanisms by which drugs and chemicals in the environment produce unwanted effects (Toxic dose)

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Toxicology

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Division of pharmacology that is concerned with drug dosage, response, and toxicity

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Posology

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Division that studies drugs obtained from natural resources including plants, microbes, animal tissues, and minerals

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Pharmacognosy

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Division that focuses on the knowledge, study and the methods implemented for amalgamating the presence of pharmaceutical products and their metabolites in the environment

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Environmental pharmacology

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10
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By this time, pharmacy is already an established profession where apothecaries mix and sell their own medicine to cater both medical practitioners and street costumers

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17th century

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These are substances that bring about change in biologic function through chemical actions. These are used in the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, and treatment of diseases.

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Drugs

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12
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Size variations of drugs according to molecular weight

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MW 7 (Li) to MW 50,000 (thromolytic enzymes and proteins)

most drugs are between MW 100 - 1000

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At what sizes of drugs can they be considered rarely selective or poorly absorbed by the body?

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Rarely selective = less than 100
Poorly ABS and DIS = greater than 10000

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14
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Order of Drug Receptor Bonds according to strength from strongest to weakest

CIHV

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  1. Covalent bond (irreversible)
  2. Ionic bond (electrostatic)
  3. Hydrogen
  4. Van der Waals
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15
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How are drugs named?

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by Chemical, Generic, and Trade

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16
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Generic or nonproprietyary names follow conventions set by what institutions

INN USAN

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  • International Nonproprietary Names (INN)
  • United States Adopted Name (USAN)
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17
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What are the classifications of drugs according to use?

FRDC

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Functional Modifiers
Replenishers
Diagnostic Agents
Chemotherapeutic Agents

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18
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These drugs supplement endogenous substances that are lacking or deficient in the body.

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**REPLENISHER DRUGS **
* Hormones (Insulin),
* Multivitamins,
* IV fluids, Electrolytes, Oral Rehydration Salts,
* Vit B12 (pernicious anemia)

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These drugs alter or modulate body functions and processes

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FUNCTION MODIFIER DRUGS
[Analgesics, Anti-pyretic, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-hypertensive]

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These are agents used to determine any presence or absence of a condition or disease.

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DIAGNOSTIC AGENTS
* Edrophonium (Tensilon),
* Histamine,
* Radiopharmaceuticals,
* Barium Sulfate (BaSO4),
* Dobutamine and Dipyridamole (Pharmacologic Stress Test for cardiac diseases)

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21
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Tensilon test is a diagnostic test used to evaluate what disease?

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myasthenia gravis (muscle weakness)

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22
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These are agents that kill or inhibit growth of cells or nucleic acid considered as foreign to the body

Selective Toxicity considered

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Chemotherapeutic Agents
* Anti-infectives
* Antineoplastics

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23
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Branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of drugs in the body or the effect the organism has on the drug

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Pharmacokinetics

LADMERT

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24
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Branch of pharmacology that studies the action of the drug on the organism

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Pharmacodynamics

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25
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This is the way in which the body handles the drug

how drugs enter/exit the body and how concentrations change over time

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Drug disposition

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26
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pertains to the release of AI from the dosage form

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Liberation

Disintegration & Dissolution

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27
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Factors influencing dissolution

SSSC

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  • Surface area
  • Salt forms
  • State of Hydration
  • Crystal or Amorphous form
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28
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The rate and extent of drug entry into the systemic circulation

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Absorption

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29
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What are the factors affecting absorption?

GFRET PADDDS

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  • size of dose administered
  • degree of perfusion in the absorbing environment
  • areas of absorbing surface
  • pH of absorbing environment
  • gastric emptying time
  • dosage form
  • drug solubility
  • First pass effect
  • enterohepatic recycling
  • route of administration
  • transport mechanisms
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30
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Aspirin is an acidic drug. In the stomach, will it exist mostly in ionized or non-ionized form?

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Non-ionized. Aspirin is a weak acid and it tends to ionize (give up a H atom) in an aqueous medium at high pH. In a low pH environment like the stomach (pH =2), aspirin is predominantly unionized and crosses membranes into the blood vessels readily.

non-ionized = absorbed; aspirin is absorbed in the stomach

31
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To increase the absorption of a basic drug…
To decrease the absorption of an acidic drug

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alkanize the environment

32
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To increase the absorption of a acidic drug…
To decrease the absorption of an basic drug

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acidize the environment

33
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What are the factors affecting the increase of gastric emptying time?

GLDSHH

A

Stress
Heavy exercise
Gastric ulcers
Hot Food
Lying on the left side
Drugs inhibiting gastric motility (Lopermide)

34
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What are the factors that decrease the gastric emptying time

GDMCRE

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  • Gastrectomy
  • Mild excercise
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Cold food/drinks
  • Lying on the right side
  • Motility enhancing drugs (bisacodyl)
35
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What type of dosage form undergoes liberation and what skips it?

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solid dosage forms = liberates
solutions = direct to ABS

36
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A phenomenon in which a drug gets metabolized at a specific location in the body that results in a reduced concentration of the active drug upon reaching its site of action or the systemic circulation

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First-pass Effect

37
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This happens when some of the drugs that travel intact through the biliary tract after 1st ABS are reabsorbed into the bloodstream through the intestine

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Enterohepatic recycling

38
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These are the means of movement of drug molecule across cell membrane

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Transport mechanism

39
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What are the different modes or mechanisms of drug transport?

PCCVI

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  • Passive Diffusion
  • Carrier-mediated Transport
  • Convective Transport
  • Vesicular Transport
  • Ion-Pair Transport
40
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molecules that can be transported through convective (pore) transport

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  • organic and inorganic electrolytes (150 - 400 MW)
  • ions of opposite charge
  • ionized sulfonamides
41
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molecules that are transported through bulk or vesicular transport

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  • fats, glycerin, starch,
  • parasite eggs and yeast cells
  • plastic particles
  • hairs
  • Ferritin and insulin
42
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molecules that are transported by ion-pair transport

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QACs (+) and Mucin (-)

uncharged = easily absorbed through cell membrane

43
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the process of transport of drug from the bloodstream to the site of action; drug passed into different tissues and fluid compartments of the body

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Distribution

44
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Parameters of Distribution

Vanilla Pumpkin Beer

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Volume of Distribution
Protein Binding
Blood Brain and Placental Barrier

45
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Physiocologic factors affecting Distribution

A
  • Cardiac Output
  • Regional Blood Flow
46
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the* hypothetical* volume of body fluid required to dissolve a given amt of dose of drug to achieve conc = drug plasma conc

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Volume of Distribution

47
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Distribution of basic drugs vs acidic drugs

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Acidic drugs (highly protein-bounded) = low VD
Basic drugs (extensively taken up by tissues) = high VD

A: chlorpropamide, tolbutamide
B: chloroquine, atropine, raloxifene

48
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Phenomenon when drug combines with plasma, particularly albumin, or tissue protein to form a complex

A

Protein binding

49
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Each protein binders bind to?
* albumin
* alpha acid glycoprotein
* lipoproteins
* globulin
* erythrocytes

A
  • albumin = acidic drugs
  • alpha acid glycoprotein = basic drugs
  • lipoproteins = lipids and proteins
  • globulin = hormones
  • erythrocytes = exo/endogenous compounds
50
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Types of hormones that bind to each type of globulin
* alpha 1
* alpha 2
* beta 1
* beta 2
* gamma

A
  • alpha 1 = steroidal drugs
  • alpha 2 (ceruloplasmin) = Vit ADEK
  • beta 1 (transferrin) = ferrous ion
  • beta 2 = carotinoid
  • gamma = antigen
51
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Factors affecting protein binding

A
  1. drug
  2. protein
  3. protein affinity to the drug
  4. drug interactions
  5. patient’s physiologic condition
52
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What type of drugs can permeate the blood brain barrier?

A

Lipid-soluble drugs with very low molecular weight

53
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pertains to the proportion of drug delivered to the site of action in the body

A

Bioavailability

54
Q

Tuberculosis Tx; undergoes PhII first before PhI

A

Isoniazid

55
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Why is metabolism important? give its purpose

A
  • increase water solubility
  • detoxify
  • terminate pharmacological effect of the drug
56
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the time required for any specified property (e.g. the concentration of a substance in the body) to* decrease by half*

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Half Life

57
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drugs that decrease metabolic activity of enzymes to increase pharmacologic action of co-administered drugs

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Enzyme inhibitors

static as cement

58
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Examples of Enzyme inhibitors

CKCDAG

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  • Isoniazid
  • Cimetidine
  • Ketoconazole
  • Chloramphenicol
  • Disulfiram
  • Grapefruit Juice
  • Acute Alcoholism
59
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Drugs that increase metabolic activity of an enzyme, decreasing the pharmacologic action of co-administered drugs

CarbaPhenPhen SCARifamp

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Enzyme Inducers

fast movers

60
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Examples of enzyme inducers

CarbaPhenPhen SCARifamp

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  • Carbamazepine
  • Phenobarbital
  • Phenytoin
  • Rifampicin
  • Griseofulvin
  • Chronic Alcoholism
  • Smoking
61
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Metabolism that polarizes drugs (more water soluble), and adds a chemically reactive functional group (-OH, -SH, -NH2) permitting conjugation in Phase 2;

Functionalization Rxn

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Phase 1 Metabolism

Oxidation Reduction Hydrolysis

62
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PH1 add oxygen or hydroxyl

ROH

A

oxidation

CYP450 - Iron

63
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Non CYP 450 mediated kinemelins

A
64
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A

Azo N=N

65
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After phase 1, this is where an endogenous compound such as SO4)2, glucuronic acid, glycine, or glutamine, is added that increases polarity further

Conjugation Reactions

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Phase 2 metabolism

Detoxification - GSH

66
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Purposes of Phase 2 Metaolism

A
  • Detoxification
  • Terminate pharmacologic activity
  • increase water solubility
67
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phase 2 reactions that terminate pcol activity

A

Methylation and Acetylation

68
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This is a detoxifying agent that combines itself to chemically reactive compounds to prevent damage to DNA, RNA, and proteins

A

Glutathione (GSH)

composed of glycine, cysteine, and glutamic acid

69
Q
A

Glucuronidation

70
Q

inability of newborns to conjugate bilirubin with glucuronic acid

A

neonatal hyper-bili-tubi-nemia

71
Q

due to the inability to metabolize chloramphenicol of babies

A

Gray Baby Syndrome

72
Q

Toxic metabolite of Paracetamol

NAPQI

A

N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine

73
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disease due to inability to acetylize drugs

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PCOL211 - Pharmacology (3 decks)

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