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Introduction to Pharmacology Flashcards

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The science which deals with the study of drugs and their interactions with living organisms.

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Pharmacology

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Derived from the greek word pharmacon meaning drug and from the Latin word logos meaning to study.

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Pharmacology

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The art and science of preparing, compounding, and dispensing of drugs.

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Pharmacy

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The study of the source of drugs.

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Pharmacognosy

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The study of drug dosages.

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Posology
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Study of how drugs produce effects on living organisms. Studies the mechanism and site of action of drugs.

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Pharmacodynamics

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The study of the processes and factors which determines the amount of drugs at the sites of action at various times between the application or administration of drugs in the body and their elimination from the body.

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Pharmacokinetics

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The study of weights and measures of drugs.

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Metrology

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This study the movement of drugs in the body including the process of absorption, distribution, localization in tissues, biotransformation and excretion.

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Pharmacokinetics

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The mechanism by which a drug produces an effect. Refers to where and how the effect is produced.

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Drug action

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When drugs bind to molecules in some sites in the body and do not produce any perceptible effect.

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Non-specific drug action

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Example: Acetylcholine binds to Muscarinic and Nicotinic receptors.

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Drug action

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When the interaction of drugs with receptor molecules produces perceptible changes in the function of an organism.

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Specific drug action

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The change the drug produces in an individual that can be perceived and measured.

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Drug effect

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Example: Acetylcholine- stimulation of smooth muscles of the viscera, increased secretion of smooth muscles.

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Drug effect

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drug induced change in an organism.

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Pharmacological effect

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Not drugs, but when administered in excess may produce exaggerated effects. In contrast, when given in proper amounts, these will promote and maintain normal body functions. These effects are physiologic in nature.

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Food and hormones

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Overdose of insulin causes

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Hypoglycemia

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  1. Ingestion of too much water which leads to
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Cell swelling

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mutually dependent, that is, one cannot be demonstrated in the absence of the other. Both action and effect may occur in one site, but in some instances the site of action is different from the site where the drug effect occurs.

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Drug action and drug effects

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study of harmful effects of drugs.

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Toxicology

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Example: Injection of insulin reduces the blood glucose to normal concentrations in a diabetic patient.

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Physiologycal effect

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effect that maintains normal body functions.

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Physiologycal effect

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study of the application of drugs for use in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases.

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Pharmacotherapeutics

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emphasis on the chemical properties of poisons.

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Chemical toxicology

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emphasis on diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of poisonings with chemical substances including medicine.

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Clinical toxicology

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identification of substances in suspected cases of poisoning with the aim of solving a chemical problem,

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Forensic toxicology

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emphasis on promulgation of laws on safety of chemical substances in the environment or food for human, animal and plant population.

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Legal toxicology

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Categories of Pharmacology

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Molecular Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology
Veterinary Pharmacology

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concerned with the rational development, effective use, and proper evaluation of drugs for the diagnosis, prevention and cure of diseases.

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Clinical Pharmacology

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study of basic mechanism of drug action on biological systems.

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Molecular Pharmacology

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concerned with drugs as they are used in the diagnosis, treatment of animal diseases, and in the intentional alteration of animal physiology.

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Veterinary Pharmacology

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Treatment consisted of attempting to balance these humors by replenishing of deficiencies or removing excesses. Thus drove the practices of bleeding, purging (including vomiting) and sweating that continued well in the 19th century.

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Hippocrates

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The earliest written compilation of drug written by Emperor Shenung in about 2700 BC.

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Pen Tsao

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The oldest record of Egyptian drug codification written about 2000 BC. which deals with veterinary medicine and uterine disease of women and contains a number of prescriptions.

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Kahun Papyrus

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The four elements of philosophy were; water, fire, air and earth. Combinations of these elements gave rise to four humors of the body related to a scale of life from most alive to death. They were blood (sanguine temperament), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile or urine ( bilious), and black bile (melancholic).

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Hippocrates

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Greek physician (400-375 BC.) Great teacher of Medicine. Adapted the notion of a humoral basis for diseases from philosophies in Asia Minor.

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Hippocrates

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(384 – 322 BC), begun the scientific basis of medicine who made and recorded numerous observation on animals.

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Aristotle

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(380-270) pupil of Aristotle. He systematically classified medicinal plants in the basis of their individual characteristics rather than their recommended use in treatment.

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Theophrastus

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A surgeon who improved the work of Theophrastus and who compiled the first Materia Medica which consisted of six volumes describing about 600 plants. Drugs were discussed from the standpoint of name, source, identification, tests for adulteration, preparation of the dosage form, what it would do and what conditions would be used.

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Dioscorides

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27
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Officialy recognized books of drug preparation.

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Pharmacopeias

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(131 – 200), his work dealing with physiology and material medica became authoritive which were used widely for 1400 years.

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Galen

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Developed the practice of pharmacy to a high level and was the first to distill wines and beers to obtain ethanol for preparing tinctures. They were also the first to regulate the practice of pharmacy to standardize the preparation of prespcriptions.

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Muslim cultures

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(702 - 765) classified drugs and poisons and recognized that the difference between a drug and a poison was a matter of dosage. Any drug can be toxic if given in large amounts.

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Geber Ibn Hagar

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(1493 - 1541) introduced the clinical use of laundanum (opium) and a number of tinctures of various plants.

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Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

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(1514 - 1544) compiled the first pharmacopeia and described techniques to be employed in preparation of drugs.

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Valerius Cordus

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(1741 - 1799) gave the most notable contribution to therapy an account of the Foxglove and some of its medical uses. His observation on the usage of digitals is the treatment of dropsy (ascites due to CHF) are steel pertinent.

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William Withering

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Drugs such as crichona (quinine), coffee, tea and cocoa (methylxanthines), curane, digitalis, and a variety of alkaloids were discovered.

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17th ad 18tht Century

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(1749 - 1823) discovered and established the principle of prophylactic immunization against small pox and was the first to describe anaphylaxis.

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Edward Jener

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(1578 - 1657) discovered the circulation of blood.

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William Harvey

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(1632 - 1723) made the first intravenous injections of drugs into a dog.

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Christopher Wren

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(1871 - 1884) devised the first hypodermic needle and syringe.

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Alexander Wood

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The science of pharmacology has flourished in the medical and pharmacy schools. The ability of chemists in the pharmaceutical industry to synthesize new chemical substances has removed our dependence on natural products as source of drugs.

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20th Century

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was instrumental in shifting emphasis in the veterinary curriculum form material medica to the Science of Veterinary pharmacology.

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L Meyer Jones

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Opened the first school of veterinary medicine in Lyons on February 13, 1762.

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Claude Bourgelat

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Produces in 1932 effective against bacterial diseases which led to the significant improvement in animal welfare. This were followed by the introduction of penicillin.

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Sulphonamides

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In 1960 was discovered for parasite therapy. The first was thiabendazolel.

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Benzimadazoles

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Products that have been authorized by Agricultural and health ministers.

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Veterinary medicine

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is any drug or substance with specific affinity to a receptor. Receptors are molecules to which a drug has specific affinity.

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Ligand

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2 requirements for drug activity

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Affinity and Efficacy

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tendency of a drug to combine with its specific receptor.

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Affinity

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inherent capacity of a drug to produce a response by itself.

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Efficacy

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A drug with affinity but without intrinsic activity may produce a

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Physiological Change

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a drug that does not have intrinsic activity but binds with specific receptors.

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Antagonist

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a drug having both agonistic and antagonistic properties

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Dualist

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cannot produce an effect except in the presence of an agonist.

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Competitive Antagonist

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inhibits the action of an agonist by binding at a site other than the receptor.

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Non competitive Agonist

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a function of the drug’s affinity for the receptor, absorption, excretion, degradation rates.

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Potency

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in the same patient can be due to circadian changes, age, state of health, drug – indeed.

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Variability

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indicates the range of dosage over which the drug acts, from minimally detectable to maximally effective.

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Slope

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The body reservoir that holds the greatest amount of the barbiturate thiopental is

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Fat

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Features of dose response curves

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Potency, slope, variability

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Body fat may contain up to -__________ of an administered dose of lipid soluble thiopental _________ after injection.

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70%, 3hours

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when one of the two drugs has zero intrinsic activity. The drug with zero intrinsic activity is considered a potentiator.

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Potentiation

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effect of a drug combination is greater than the separate effects of the individual drugs.

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Synergism

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Drugs are usually released much more slowly from fat because

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Fat has relatively blood supply

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the combined effect of the drugs is equal to the sum of their individual effect.

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Additive Effect

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results from coulombic forces ( electrostatic attraction ) between oppositely charged ions. The force of attraction between ions diminishes inversely with the square of the distance between them.

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Ionic bond

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two atoms share a pair of electrons. It has high binding energy. can be broken at very high temperature or intervention of catalytic enzymes.

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Covalent bond

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The most dangerous route of drug administration. Although it has many advantages.

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IV route

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In the oral administration of drugs, absorption occurs mostly in

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duodenum but in some cases may also occur in the mouth, stomach, and colon.

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Examples of parental route of drug administration

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Intravenous
subcutaneous
intrapleural
intrasynovial
intraconjunctival
intratracheal
intramuscular
intraperitoneal
intraarterial
inhalation
intranasal
intradermal.

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arises from the ability of a proton ( H ) to accept an electron pair. It is stronger than a covelant bond.

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Hydrogen Bond (H-bond)

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from very weak bond between depoles or induced dipoles, often between similar atoms.

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Intermolecular forces (van der Waals forces)

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injection of the drug into rumen. The enteral route includes the oral route ( by mouth, per os, per orem, p.o ) and rectal route.

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Enteral

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the study of the rate of change from the initial state to the final state of a substance.

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Kinetics

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a constant percentage of the drug remaining in the site of administration is absorbed (or disappears from the site with time )

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First order Kinetics

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the actual amount of drug absorbed per unit time is the same regardless of how much of the drug remains in the site.

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Zero order Kinetics

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the time it takes for a drug concentration to be reduced to 50% its initial concentration.

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Half life

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the total quantity of drug absorbed intact.

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Bioavailability

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Fluid compartments of the body

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Blood / plasma - 4% body weight
Interstitial - 18% body weight
Transcellular - 2% body weight
Intracellular - 40% % body weight

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when injected into the circulation stays confined to the cardiovascular system. Its volume of distribution therefore is equal to the plasma volume.

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Evan’s blue or l-albumin

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readily crosses all epithelial barriers. It is used to measure total body fluid volume.

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Isotopic water or antipyrine

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freely diffuses out of blood vessels but does not enter the cells. It therefore measures the ECF.The difference between ECF and plasma volume is the interstitial fluid volume.

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Inulin or EDTA

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are extracellular fluids but enclosed within epithelial tissues. They include synovial, intraocular, cerebrospinal, peritoneal, pericardial, and pleural fluids.

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Transcellular fluid volume

67
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inactivation of most drugs.

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Biotransformation

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removal of drug and drug metabolities from the body.

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Excretion

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terminated drug activity by removing the drug from its site of action into other sites within the body. The sequestered drug will be eventually biotransformed and excreted.

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Redistribution of sequestration

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refers to the biochemical processes affecting the pharmacological activity of drugs and other substances.

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Biotransformation

70
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reduction of drug activity.

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Detoxification

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normal anabolic and metabolic reactions ex. Hormones

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Metabolism

72
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the process of transforming and inactive or less active compound to a more active metabolite but the resulting does not always cause death.

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Lethal synthesis

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The most important site of drug biotransformation in the body, but biotransformation also occurs in other organs including the intestinal mucosa, lungs, and kidneys.

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Liver

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generally less active than the parent compound if not totally inactive. _________ or by products are almost always more polar and less soluble than the parent compound.

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Metabolities

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The microsomal enzymes also known a ________, are a complex of proteins and heme which are located in the SER ( Smooth endoplasmic reticulum ) wherein pieces of which are called microsomes.

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cytochrome P-40 or mixed function oxidases

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2 phases of Biotransformation

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Phase I and Phase II

77
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four reactions in the biotransformation of drugs by the micriosomal enzymes

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oxidation
reduction
hydrolysis and
conjugation.

77
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involves synthetic reactions conjugating the products of Phase I reactions with metabolites normally present in the body such as glucoronide, sulfate, acetate, and ornithine.

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Phase II

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Reductive reaction

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Azo reduction, Nitro reduction

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Oxidative Reactions

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Aromatic hydroxylation
aliphatic oxidation
O-dealkylation
N-dealkylation
oxidative deamination, desulfuration
sulfoxidation

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Hydrolytic reaction

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Easter hydrolysis, nitro reduction

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Conjugation reaction

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glucoronic acid conjugation
sulfate conjugation
acetylation
methylation

80
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the most important means of eliminating drugs from body

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Urine Bile

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