L1 Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics Flashcards
Pharmacokinetic factors
Bioavailability Half - life Drug elimination Inter subject variability Drug - drug interactions
Human factors affecting pharmacokinetics
Renal function - clearance Stress Pyrex is Alcohol - CYPs Smoking - CYPs Age Sex Exercise Diet Pregnancy and lactation - tetrogenic Liver function - Albumin
Bioavailability (F)
Measure of drug absorption where it can be used i.e. concentration of drug after it has been metabolised
IV bioavailability
100% i.e. 1
Bypasses the liver and transferred directly to the plasma concentration
Other routes bioavailability
Fraction of IV bioavailability
Factors affect bioavailability
Age - luminal changes Sex Food - chelation and gastric emptying Vomiting and malabsorption e.g. Crohn’s Absorption Formulation Liver function - first pass metabolism
Modified release preparations
Drugs can be modified to be absorbed slower
Therefore take less pills per day
Increases adherence
Factors affecting volume of distribution
Blood flow
Capillary structure i.e vasoconstriction
Lipophilicity - higher Vd
Protein binding - difficult to distribute to other compartments therefore decrease Vd
Protein binding
Albumin - acidic drugs
Globulins - hormones
Lipoproteins - basic drugs
Glycoproteins - basic drugs
Free drug
Only free drug that isn’t bound to proteins can elicit a response and be eliminated
Class II precipitate drugs
Displace class I object drug from protein binding sites as the class II drug has a higher affinity Therefore more Class I drug is free to elicit an effect
Factors that cause more free drug
Pregnancy - increased blood volume
Renal failure - less clearance
Hypoalbuminaemia - less protein to bind to drug therefore more is free
Volume of distribution
= dose (mg)/ plasma drug concentration at t=0 (mg/L)
Vd and plasma concentration
Vd is inversely proportional to plasma drug concentration
When there is a high plasma drug concentration the Vd is lower as less has been distributed
Phase 1 metabolism - first pass
- oxidation
- dealkylation
- reduction
- hydrolysis
- converts drug into lipophilic metabolites
- by cytochrome P450 - liver enzymes