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Module 3 - Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Flashcards

1
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What is pharmacodynamics?

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What a drug does to the body

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What is involved in pharmacodynamics?

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The effect of the drug, mechanism and their action

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What is drug selectivity?

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The number of molecular targets the drug interacts with

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4
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What is drug specificity?

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The number of effects the drug produces

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What is drug affinity

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Affinity = affection
Tendency of a drug to combine with receptor site

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What is an adverse reaction?

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A biological effect that is not intended

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7
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What are the four main types of molecular drug targets?

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Transporter
Enzyme
Ion channel
Receptor

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8
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What is meant by receptor agonist?

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A drug/substance that binds to a receptor and causes the SAME effect

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What is a partial agonist?

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Unable to produce an active response even when all receptors are occupied?

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What is an orthosteric site?

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An active site

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What is an allosteric site?

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Binds to a different site and causes a reaction

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What is a receptor antagonist?

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Binds to a receptor target but DOES NOT elicit a response

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What effect does a receptor agonist produce?

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Prevents binding of agonist to receptor thus preventing activation of receptor

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What are the three (3) types of receptor antagonists?

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Reversible, irreversible and non-competitive

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What does a reversible receptor antagonist do?

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Interferes with binding of endogenous agonist to orthosteric (active) site

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What does a irreversible receptor antagonist do?

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Causes target receptor to become permanently unavailable for binding of agonist

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What does a non-competitive receptor antagonist do?

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Blocks response to agonist

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18
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What do allosteric modulators do?

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Indirectly alters function of a receptor in positive or negative way

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19
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How do allosteric modulators produce a pharmacological response?

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Activating receptor to cause different biological response
Alter binding affinity
Changing the efficacy of receptor

20
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What is potency?

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How much drug is required to produce an effect

21
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What is EC50?

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The drug concentration as which a drug produces 50% of the maximal response

22
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What is efficacy?

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Measure of how big an effect the drug will have when all targets are occupied

23
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What are the two types of transporters?

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Facilitated and active

24
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When must transporters be utilised?

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When a drug is not soluble and cannot passively diffuse across a membrane

25
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What are ion channels?

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Transmembrane proteins that control ion flow across a cell membrane

26
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What are the main ion channels?

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Voltage gated ion channels and intracellular ligand gated ion channels

27
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What are enzymes?

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Catalysts that speed up rate of all chemical reactions that take place with cells

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What are receptors?

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Signalling proteins that recognise and response to chemical messengers to change a function within a cell

29
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What are the four (4) families of receptors?

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  1. Ligand gated ion channels
  2. G-coupled protein receptors
  3. Kinase receptors
  4. Nuclear receptors
30
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How do ligand gated channels work?

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A drug binds to a particular site on the transmembrane protein to open up the gate and allow ions to flow through

31
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How do G-coupled protein receptors work?

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A ligand will bind to outside of a G-coupled protein receptor. Receptor undergoes conformational change that allows it to interact with G-protein that will pass signal on to other intermediates in signalling pathway

32
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What is pharmacokinetics?

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What the BODY does to the drug

33
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What is involved in pharmacokinetics

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  1. Concentration of a drug increases as it is absorbed in the body
  2. Hits peak concentration
  3. Process of elimination occurs (drug concentration in the plasma reduces)
34
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What is the importance of understanding a drugs pharmacokinetic profile?

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Allows use to decide appropriate dosages, determine dosing regimes, interpret drug reactions and adjust doses according to response

35
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What are the two main categories of drug administration?

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Systemic administration and target administration

36
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What occurs during systemic administration?

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Drug enters circulation and is carried to site of action (needs to be able to cross biological membranes)

37
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What occurs during target administration?

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Drug is delivered to the site of action (proximity delivered to tissue/organ where desired effect is intended)

38
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What is the difference between lipid soluble drugs and ionised/charged drugs?

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Lipid soluble drugs readily pass through lipid membrane, ionised/charged drugs have difficulty crossing cell membranes

39
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What are the four (4) main ways a drug can cross cell membranes?

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Passive diffusion
Facilitated transport
Active transport
Aquaporin

40
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What is lipophilicity?

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Passes through cell membrane more easily (easier absorption)

41
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What is hydrophilicity?

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Difficulty crossing lipid bilayer

42
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What is the impact of ionisation on drug absorption?

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Un-ionised drugs (lipid soluble) easily diffuse across lipid membrane compared to ionised drugs

43
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What are the main physiological barriers of drug absorption?

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Nature of the tissue
Channel and transporter
Surface area (large surface area increases absorption)
Blood flow (increased blood supply results in increased absorption)

44
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What factors mainly impact distribution?

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Physiochemical properties of a drug (e.g. size/molecular weight, lipophilicity/hydrophilicity, ionisation and tissue binding)
Physiology of the person (e.g. circulation, permeability of membranes, tissue mass and channel/transporter)

45
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What is the impact of a hydrophilic drug on distribution?

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A large portion will remain in the extracellular fluid compartment as it cannot cross cell membranes

46
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What is the impact of a Lipophilic drug on distribution?

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Can move between intracellular and intravascular compartments

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