Pharm Flashcards
Sympathetic nervous system results in ______ __ ______, while the parasympathetic nervous system results in _____ ___ ______.
Fight or flight
Rest and digest
Drugs that increase sympathetic response are known as ___________
Sympathomimetics
Drugs that block sympathetic response are known as ____________.
Sympatholytics
What are the two neurotransmitters of the SNS?
Epinephrine
Norepinephrine
SNS neurotransmitters bind to _________ receptors. What are the 3 subtypes?
Adrenergic (Alpha, Beta, Dopamine)
PSNS neurotransmitters bind to _________ receptors. What are the 2 subtypes?
Cholinergic (Nicotonic, Muscarinic)
Acetylcholine release is _____ dependent
Ca2++
Acetylcholine is broken down by what?
Acetylcholinesterase
Is acetylcholine an agonist or antagonist?
Agonist
Epinephrin, Norepinephrin, and dopamine are examples of what neurotransmitter?
Catecholamines
Study of the genetic variation in drug response usually monogenic is know as ______________.
Pharmacogenetics
Surveying the genome to assess multigenic determinants of drug response is known as ______________.
Pharmacogenomics
Genetic variation among individuals within a specific species or population is known as _____________.
Polymorphisms (Ex; Blood types)
Drug response is determined by what two factors?
Genetic factors
Environmental factors
Single nucleotide exchanged for another at a point on the individual’s genome are called ____________ ___________ ____________, also known as normal genetic variation.
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
SNP typically effect the genotype or phenotype?
Genotype
What is a misense SNP?
Base pair change results in amino acid substitution
What is a synonymous SNP?
Base pair changed doesn’t alter the amino acid
What is a Nonsense SNP?
Base pair change leads to stop codon
In regards to phenotypes, variability in genes than encode kinetic determinants is known a what.
Kinetic
What happens when an ultra-rapid metabolizer at 2D6 takes imipramine which is metabolized by 2D6?
it gets used up (metabolized) quickly, meaning it may not get to therapeutic levels
With nomenclature, the first letter/number group identifies what? The star and following number identify what?
Gene
Allele
Ultrarapid metabolzers have ____ ____ _____ copies of functional alleles.
More than two
Extensive metabolizers have _____ functional allele with ____ non-functional/reduced function allele
One