Lecture 3 cont Flashcards
Neutral fats make up ____-____% of body weight
20-50%
the more lipophilic the drug, the ____ likely it will deposit in neutral fats
MORE
what are the mechanisms in which lipophilic drugs deposit in neutral fats?
either:
- Direct physical dissolution
- primary deposition into membranes, follows by slow redistribution into fatty tissue
give an example of drugs that get deposited into neutral fats.
what is the effect of this?
ultra short acting barbiturates (such as thiopental)
thus, these drugs have a VERY SHORT DURATION OF ACTION because they are deposited into these neutral fats, thus decreasing its plasma concentration below therapeutic levels.
this could be intentional
does sulfur increase or decrease lipophilicity
in organic molecules, sulfur INCREASES lipophilicity (except when bound to hydrogen)
what is thiopental
a sulfur containing, ultra short acting barbiturate that gets deposited into neutral fats, thus having a very short duration of action
what does QSAR stand for
quantitative structure-activity relationship
QSAR studies were originally performed by whom and when
Hansch in the 1960s
true or false
QSAR studies began in the 1960s and are still evolving
true
Hansch performed studies to correlate what?
he wanted to correlate the CHEMICAL STRUCTURE and PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of the drug to its biological activity
what is THF
Tetrahydrofuran – an organic solvent
What does LD50 mean
the dose at which 50% of the test sample is killed. Lethal dose
what is ED50
effective dose – the dose at which 50% of the population gets treated effectively
give the formula for the rate of the drug response, according to QSAR
Rate of response = d[Response]/dt = ACkx
A = probability of molecule reaching the site of action
C = extracellular drug concentration
Kx = rate (or equilibrium) constant
in QSAR, what are the 3 parameters used to correlate the chemical structure, physical properties, and biological activities of a drug?
-lipophilic parameter (pi)
-electronic parameter (sigma)
-steric parameter (Es)
what does the lipophilic parameter (pi) of QSAR indicate?
the relative lipid solubility