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Ligand

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Molecules that bind to receptors

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What is a protein that participates in intracellular communication via chemical signals?

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Receptor

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What are the 4 major classes of receptors?

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Ligand-gated Ion channels
Protein Receptors
G-Protein Coupled receptors
Ligand-activated transcription factors

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Nictonic Ach, glutamate, Glycine and GABA(a) all use what type of receptor?

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Ligand-gated ion channels

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Growth factors, insulin, and peptide hormones use which kind of receptor?

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Protein receptor

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Muscarinic receptor, alpha and beta adrenergic receptor proteins, and eicosamoids use what type of receptor?

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G-Protein coupled receptors

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steroid hormones, thyroid hormone, vit D use what kind of receptor?

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Ligand-activated transcription factors

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activating the alpha1-adrenergic receptor lead to what?

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Activation of phospholipase

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activating the alpha2- adrenergic receptor leads to what?

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Inhibition of adenylyl cyclase

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activating the B-adrenergic receptor leads to what?

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Stimulation of adenylyl cyclase

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Activation of muscarinic receptor leads to what?

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Activation of phospholipase

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What are the two general classes of ion channels?

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Voltage-gated

Ligand-gated

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What type of ion channel is activated by alterations in membrane voltage? (Na+ channel)

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Voltage-gated ion channel

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Some ion channels are able to become _________ and in this state the channels permeability can’t be altered for a certain period of time.

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Refractory or inactivated

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What type ion channel if activated after binding specific ligands or drugs?

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Ligand-gated

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What two drug classes act by altering the conductance of ion channels?

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Local anesthetics (voltage)
Benzodiazepines  (ligand)
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How is cAMP produced?

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Activation of adenyly cyclase by alpha-GTP subunits

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What are two benefits of a signal-transduction pathway (second messenger)?

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Signal amplification

Signal specificity

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What is an example of a protein-linked kinase receptor?

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Tyrosine kinase (has insulin receptors)

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What receptor requires a signal to pass through the plasma membrane?

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Intracellular receptors

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What are important drug receptors located outside the plasma membrane?

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Extracellular receptors

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What are 2 drugs that have strong chemical bonds (covalent) that are irreversible?

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Chemo

Aspirin (for the life of the platelet ~7 days)

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Spare receptors are common for those that bind what?

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Hormones and neurotransmitters

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All these terms refer to what: Desensitization, tachyphylaxis, refractoriness, resistance, tolerance
?

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Effect of a drug often diminishes when given continuously or repeatedly

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Loss of receptor function leads to what?
Rapid desensitization due to change in receptor conformation
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Reduction of receptor number leads to what?
Long-term desensitization due to change in receptor number
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What are 2 ways drug desensitization can happen that aren't receptor mediated?
1. Reduction of receptor coupled signaling components | 2. Increased metabolic degradation
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what are some advantages of sublingual route of administration?
Rapid response No 1st pass effect bypass GI acids
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What is the reduction or ameiloration of drug effects due to opposing homeostatic response?
Physiological adaptation
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What is the probability of a drug occupying a receptor at any given instance?
Affinity
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What is the way the body handles the drug through absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and elimination?
Pharmacokinetics
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What is the process by which a drug leaves its site of administration and reaches the blood stream.
absorption
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What is the process by which the drug leaves the blood stream and enters the interstitial and/or cellular fluids
Distribution
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The alteration of the chemical structure of a drug by an enzyme
metabolism
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Most drugs move _____ across a membrane.
Passively
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Most diffusion occurs _____ cells, not between them.
through
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The greater the fraction of the drug that is ________, the greater the rate of diffusion.
Nonionized (uncharged)
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Non-ionized drugs diffuse easily at a ____ pH
High
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An intrathecal injection goes where?
Spinal fluid
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IP injection goes where?
Intraperitineal (into intestines)
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What is the max volume for an IM injection?
3 mL (in buttocks)
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WHat is the max for a subQ injection?
1 mL
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What type of administration should be used on an unconscious patient?
Rectal
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What is first pass metabolism?
Where the drug goes through portal circulation. Can inactivate a drug
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Which has a faster absorption- IM or SubQ?
IM
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What type of parenteral administration has the greatest risk of infection?
IV
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ligands include:
drugs, signaling molecules, hormones, neurotransmitters
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If a drug binds to a receptor but doesn't produce a response it is referred to as what?
antagonist
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Time for ligand-gated ion channels?
hours to occur
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Time for protein receptors?
seconds to minutes
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Time for G-protein Coupled Receptors?
seconds to minutes
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Time for ligand-activated transcription factors?
milliseconds! (fastest)
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Examples of intracellular receptors (4)
nitric oxide, steroid, thyroid hormone, vitamin D
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most drug-receptor interactions are?
reversible and weak chemical bonds
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What binds reversibly to active site and blocks agonist?
Competitive Antagonist
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What binds irreversibly and prevents conformational change required for the activation of receptors?
Noncompetitive Antagonist
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What is an example that increases metabolic degradation?
Barbiturates - induce P450 enzymes that degrade drug
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Efficacy
magnitude of effect that can be produced by a drug

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