lecture 1 Flashcards
What are the 3 things you need to know about drugs?
- potential side effects
- Drug interactions
- special populations
When a drug is ordered we need to know:?
the name of the drug its intended use the effects what it is suppose to do contra indications special considerations potential side effects
** relating to the presciption of a drug for a condition other than that for which it has been offically approved.
off-label
the conditions for which a drug is approved
indications
**how much of the drug is useful to our body.
bioavaliability; the degree to which a drug becomes avaliable to the target tissue after administration.
the study of drugs in human
clinical pharmacology
any chemical that can affect living organisms, or any substance taken to prevent, cure, or reduce symptoms of a medical condition
drug
use of drugs to diagnose diease, prevent, or treat diease or to prevent pregnancy
therapeutics
**N- acetyl- para- aminophenol
chemical name
**acetaminophen
generic name
**tylenol
trade name
**__,___,__ can affect bioavaliabilty.
inner ingredients
rate of absorbtion
tablet compression
**___ DO NOT exist
ideal drugs
the 3 most important characteristics of an ideal drug are:
effectiveness
safety
selectivity
**easy for patient; make it better for patient to take meds.
ease of administration ; ideal drug
with ease of administration, the patient had to have to ability to ___, ____, and ___.
pay
manual dexterity
visual acuity
**a single drug in a class that can be compared with all the other drugs in that class.
prototype drug; so becoming familiar with the prototype should allow you to predict characteristics of other drugs in that same class except for contra indications.
**drug interaction- 2 drugs together are?
beneficial and purposeful
**in the new drug development, what phases were given to healthy individuals? then what phase is given to actual patients?
1
2 &3
**in the new drug development, what phases was after markets and side effects occured in?
4
where drugs are evaluated for toxicities, pharmacokinectic properties and usefulness- can take 6 yrs or more- if a drug appears promising a pharm. company will submit an investiggational new drug to the FDA to behin testing a human substances.
preclinical testing in new drug development
in clinical testing, phase ___ are before drugs hit the market.
1,2,3
postmarketing surveillances- takes places once the popultation starts to use the drug, monitor for adverse effect in large populations.
phase 4
**respond to chemicals in the body
drug receptors… on cell and some in cell
**receptors are ___ that interact with ___ to elicit a cellular response.
proteins
endogenous ligands
chemical messager/ hormone respond to the cell.
(lock and key)
(will open receptors)
ligands
all a drug can do is ____ the actions of ___, drugs cannot make cells do anything they would not ordinarly do.
mimic or block
endogenous molecules
**maximum response cell can give.
simple occupancy theory; explains the activity off drugs at the receptor, trying to quantify the relationship between the drug concentraton and the observed affect anther way to say it is an attempt to quantify how much medicine we have to put into someone before we get the affect we want. (LOOK AT CHART)
the intensity of a drug response is ____ to the amount of receptors occupied by that drug. ___ if you fill up a cell with the drug that cell is used up.
(simple occupancy)
proportional
maximum response
the strenght of the interaction/attraction between the drug and its receptor- if something has a high affinity then that means its highly potent
affinity (modified occupancy)
addresses the abilty of the drug to activate he receptors once its bond to it– with high instrinsic activity are highly affective. [high max efficiency]
instrinsic activity (modified occupancy)
mimics the actions of the endogenous regulatory molecules- turns the cell on
agonists
block the action of regulatory molecules- turns the cell off
antagonist; prevent from doing what typically does.