Jusko Flashcards
Description of the time course and factors controlling drug effects on the body.
Pharmacodynamics.
Capacity Constant
Emax
Sensitivity Constant
EC50
Description of the time course and factors affecting the handling of drugs by the body.
Pharmacokinetics
What was discussed in class in regards to propranolol?
Racial differences are observed when dose in Chinese and whites males. Furthermore, it took much higher doses to achieve the same reduction in HR in white men as it did in Chinese males.
PK or PD:
~Whole Body Influence
~Zero Baseline
~Simple Determinants
~Usually Linear
~Few Assays
Pharmacokinetics
PK or PD:
~Alters specific subsystem
~Starts from steady state
~Complex controls
~Predominantly nonlinear
~Diverse measures
Pharmacodynamics.
Which phase of clinical trials is the most substantial in drug modeling?
Phase II–> Allows for intense PK and PD evaluation of typical patients.
QSP
Quantitative and Systems Pharmacology
In what section of a drug label should the PK/PD data be in?
Section 12
Which exposure indices are required to be shown on forest plots per the FDA?
Cmax and AUC
What are the basic tenets of pharmacodynamics?
- Capacity Limitation
- Turnover and Homeostasis
What is capacity limitation determined by?
The hill function and law of mass action.
Kproduction follows ___________ kinetics.
Zero order
Kloss follows ___________ kinetics
First Order
In class, what was observed with Levodopa
Higher doses lead to a greater reduction of symptoms, however they eventually trended back to baseline.
In class, what was observed with Prednisolone?
Prednisolone binds Glucocorticoid Receptors in the nucleus. However, this process is saturable, therefore prednisolone binding follows non-linear kinetics.
What is Kd?
The concentration of drug in serum when 50% of the receptors are bound. (half Bmax)
A lower Kd value is associated with _____________ activity.
The lower the Kd value, the higher the drug activity.
Per Clarks Occupancy Theory, how is Ka calculated?
1/Kd (Fractional Occupancy)
Per Clarks Occupancy How is Receptor Occupancy Calculated?
Bound Receptor/Total Receptor
What law does Clarks Occupancy Theory Utilize?
The law of mass action.
Per the law of mass action, drug occupancy of a target receptor is typically ______________.
Non-linear
How can Kd be calculated using the law of mass action?
Kd = Koff / Kon
In class, what was discussed about dabigatran?
It is a direct thrombin inhibitor, which increases aPTT, leading to anticoagulation.
aPTT time has a nonlinear relationship to dabigatran concentration.
When C > EC50, what is the effect?
Emax
When C= EC50, what is the effect?
Emax/2
When C < EC50, what is the effect
(Emax/EC50) * C