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What is the clinical aim of a drug?

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Achieved effective drug concentration at site of action long enough to produce a therapeutic effect

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What is the therapeutic index?

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Ratio of a drug’s toxic level to the level that provides therapeutic benefits

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What is bioavailability?

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Proportion of a dose that reaches systemic circulation

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What does 100% bioavailability mean?

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All of the unchanged drug has reached the site of action

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Positives of intravenous injections

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  • 100% bioavailability - rapid action
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Negatives of intravenous injections

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  • sterile equipment - trained personnel - expensive - potentially painful
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Positives of Oral Administration

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  • safest - most convenient - most cheap
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Negatives of oral administration

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  • always less than 100% bioavailability - destruction by enzymes, pH, bacteria - drugs can complex with food - absorption depends on rate of passage - irritation may cause vomiting - requires patient compliance
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Factors affecting passive diffusion

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  • size of drug molecule - ionisation of drug - lipid solubility
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Which drug ionisation is better absorbed?

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Unionised drugs

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What is the main site of drug absorption?

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small intestine

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Why is the small intestine the main site of drug absorption?

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  • large surface area - alkali pH - large blood flow from capillaries
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What are the two other sites of drug absorption?

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Stomach and colon

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How does formulation affect GI absorption

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Drug form affects likelihood of entering hepatic portal vein

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Do tablets or fine particles better enter the hepatic portal vein

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Fine particles

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Two factors affecting rate of absorption

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  • gut motility - splanchnic blood flow
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Examples of orally administered drugs with potential problems

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  • phenomethylpenicillin (pen V) - tetracyclines - aspirin (NSAIDS)
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Phenomethylpenicillin (pen v) issue

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  • absorbed by food - reduced bioavailability when this happens
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Tetracyclines issue

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Chelate metals so absorption reduced by milk, antacids, and iron preparations

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Aspirin (NSAIDS) issue

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  • irritate the stomach= dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea - gastric damage
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Issues of taking antibiotics and oral contraceptives

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  • drug interactions - oral contraceptives undergo enterohepatic cycling
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first pass metabolism

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Degradation of an orally administered drug caused by enzyme metabolism in the liver and gut lumen before the drug reaches the systemic circulation

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Why is a high first pass metabolism bad

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  • orally ineffective - a drug will be broken down before it reaches system circulation
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Different routes of administration

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  • inhalation - transdermal - buccal and sublingual - intranasal - rectal - subcutaneous - intramuscular
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Inhalation mechanisms
- absorption depends on particle size - lipid soluble anaesthetics
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Transdermal mechanisms
- stratum corneum acts as a rate limiting step - lipophilic - low input rates (slow absorption)
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Examples of transdermal drugs
- nicotine patches - HRT (oestrogen/progesterone) - fentanyl patches - ibuprofen gels
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Buccal and sublingual mechanisms
Passive absorption, washed away by saliva
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Examples of buccal and sublingual drugs
- GTN (angina) - temgesic (buprenorphine)
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Intranasal mechanisms
- epithelial metabolism - passive diffusion
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Examples of intranasal drugs
- GTN (angina) - desmopressin (diabetes insipidus, nocturnal enuresis)
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Rectal mechanisms
- avoids first pass metabolism in the middle/lower rectum - erratic passive diffusion
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Examples of rectal drugs
- diazepam rectal tubes (status epilepticus) - diclofenac suppositories (pain and inflammation)
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Subcutaneous mechanisms
- passive diffusion to primary absorption capillary wall - lipophilic, water soluble - dependent on blood flow/release from dosage form - slow absorption rate
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Examples of subcutaneous drugs
- insulin - heparin - growth hormone
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Intramuscular mechanisms
- reliable route - quick uptake into body - good for depot preparations (long lasting) - absorption is perfusion limited- exercise
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Examples of intramuscular drugs
- vaccines - antipsychotics - contraceptives
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Which route of administration has the shortest duration
Oral
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Which route of administration has the longest duration?
Intravenous
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What type of proteins do drugs bind to?
Plasma proteins
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What are the three plasma proteins that drugs bind to?
- plasma albumin - beta globulin - acid glycoprotein
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Which protein binds to weak acids?
Albumin
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Which proteins bind to weak bases?
Acid glycoprotein
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What is the relationship between dose and free (active) concentration?
Non-linear
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How does a small increase in drug concentration create a large increase in free drug concentration?
- majority of the drug has already been bound - increases in concentration= more free drug in the plasma - few proteins to bind to
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What is a concern of taking drugs like aspirin/sulphonylureas?
Drug interactions
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How do drug interactions increase the likelihood of overdose?
- two drugs can be bound to plasma proteins - binding of one drug can prevent the binding of the other - large concentration of free drug=overdose
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What factors affect tissue distribution?
- lipid solubility - plasma protein binding - molecular weight ETC
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Which drug will end up leaving the plasma- heparin or ethanol?
Ethanol
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Which drug will end up diffusing from the extracellular space into the total body water- theophylline or paracetamol
Paracetamol
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How do lipid soluble drugs pass the blood brain barrier?
Passive diffusion
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How do water soluble drugs pass pass the blood brain barrier?
Carrier mechanisms
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Which cells in the liver metabolise drugs?
Hepatocytes
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What happens to drugs after metabolism?
- converted to inactive metabolites - converted to active metabolites e.g. benzodiazepines - excreted unchanged
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Where does drug metabolism occur?
Liver
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Which enzyme carries out phase 1 metabolism?
Cytochrome P450 enzymes
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Describe phase 1 of drug metabolism
- transforms molecular structure of the drug e.g. oxidation, hydrolysis, reduction - introduce a polar group and increase water solubility - abolishes activity - produces toxic or non-toxic metabolites
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Which enzyme carries out phase 2 metabolism?
Transferases
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Describe phase 2 (conjugation) metabolism
- attaches endogenous substance (e.g. sulphate) to parent drug/phase 1 metabolite - increases polarity/water solubility so can be exerted in urine or bile
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What type of metabolites does phase 1 metabolism produce?
Primary
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What type of metabolites does phase 2 metabolism produce?
Secondary
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Why is there a concern of a drug interaction from parent drug/metabolites?
Parent drug/metabolites can inhibit/induce metabolism of other drugs
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What is the major route of excretion?
Renal
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Is the bound or unbound drug excreted?
Unbound
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What is the consequence of lipid soluble drugs being reabsorbed in renal tubules?
Action is prolonged
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How does changing urinary pH aid excretion?
Polarises and ionises the drug which aids excretion e.g. bicarbonate and aspirin
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Consequence of kidney damage for excretion
Drug accumulation
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Which form of drug is the most dangerous when kidney damage occurs- changed or unchanged drugs
Unchanged e.g. lithium, penicillins, atenolol
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Possible consequences of biliary excretion into intestine
- conjugation - reabsorption from bile (enterohepatic circulation) back into the bloodstream e.g. imipramine, morphine
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Alternative routes of excretion
- saliva - sweat - tears - expired air - breast milk

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