Lecture 1 Done

Question 1

What is an API?

Answer 1

Active pharmaceutical Ingrediant. The molecular structure is exactly known

Question 2

True or False: Most API’s are organic molecules.

Answer 2

True. Only a few in the top 200 are inorganic(potassium cl, lithium salt, magnesium salts)

Question 3

What is an excipient?

Answer 3

Fillers in drug forms

Question 4

What is the most common dosage form?

Answer 4

oral solids

Question 5

What function do excipients provide?

Answer 5

they solucilize, suspend, thicken, dilute, emulsiy, stabilize, preserve, color, flavor

Question 6

What are some examples of pharmaceutical excipients?

Answer 6

sugars, polymers, fats and oils, amino acids and proteins

Question 7

What do we need dosage forms?

Answer 7

accurate dosing, protection from elements, gastric acid, mask bad taste, rate controll, delivery routes

Question 8

How do you determine margine of safety?

Answer 8

If you can double the therapeutic range and still not reach toxic levels then it has a high margin of safety

Question 9

Do most products contain small or big API’s?

Answer 9

small

Question 10

Why do we need dosage forms?

Answer 10

protection from oxygen and moisture, gastric acid, masking bad taste, rate control, drug delivery