Pharmacokinetics Flashcards
ADME
Absorption
Distribution
Metabolism
Excretion/Elimination
bioavailability
fraction of the administered drug enteric systemic circulation
3 types of bypass barriers to bioavailability
physical
chemical
biological
factors affecting bioavailablity
route of administration
formulation of the drug
drug characteristics like lipophilicity, molecular weight and ionization
patient characteristics like GI enzymes, pH, presence of food, hepatic metabolism
Advantages and Disadvantages of enteral administration
Advantages: Simple, self administration, painless, no infection
Disadvantages: Harsh GI environment, first pass metabolism, slow delivery to site
first pass metabolism
drug PO to GI tract
from there through capillary network to hepatic portal vein all of which is called the hepatic portal system
from there to liver that metabolizes drugs and there to general (systemic) circulation
Advantages and Disadvantages of parenteral administration
Advantages: rapid delivery, highest bioavailability, no first pass metabolism or GI environment
Disadvantages: infection, pain, poss need skilled personnel, irreversible
4 types of parenteral administration and their characteristics
SubQ: slower onset, small volumes
IM: oil based drugs
IV: reaches target organ fast, amount of drug not limited
intrathecal: reaches target organ fast, bypass BBB
Advantages and Disadvantages of mucous membrane administration
Advantages: rapid delivery, no first pass or GI environment, painless, low infection chance, direct delivery to affected tissue
disadvantages: few rx can be administered this way
Advantages and Disadvantages of transdermal administration
Advantages: convenient, prolonged continuous admin, no 1st pass or GI
Disadvantages: need highly lipophilic rx, slow delivery to site of pharmacologic action, may be irritating
characteristic of organ and tissue distribution
organs and tissues vary in capacity to take up rx and in proportion of systemic blood flow
volume of distribution definition and equation
fluid volume required to contain the total amount of absorbed drug in the body at a uniform concentration equivalent to that in the plasma at steady state
If you have 2 equal potent drugs but one is more highly distributed youll need a higher initial dose to achieve a therapeutic plasma concentration than that is less highly distributed
Vd = Dose/[Drug]plasma
plasma protein binding and how it works with drugs
drugs bind through hydrophobic and electrostatic forces
Can change how much of a drug reaches the target where the drug just stays in circulation and doesnt arrive at destination in the body
Albumin is a marker of protein in blood, if low then less bound and free concentration may be higher which can lead to toxicity if too much free/unbound
Note highly bound protein drugs could compete for binding and push each other off causing a drug interaction which could mean higher free concentration of one of the drugs
biotransformation
the key to metabolism
Drug molecules are transformed into other molecules, some are therapeutic and some are not, some could be toxic
Example: Tylenol usual metabolic pathway could be overwhelmed by alcohol and shifted into a diff pathway that leads to a toxic metabolite
Liver metabolism phase 1
transform drugs into more hydrophilic metabolites
liver metabolism phase 2
modify compounds through attaching hydrophilic groups
examples of the liver metabolism phase 1
- Add or expose polar functional groups
- Cytochrome P450 enzyme oxidations
- P450 independent oxidations
- Alcohol dehydrogenation
- Monoamine oxidase
- Hydrolysis
- Reductions
examples of the liver metabolism phase 2
- Glucuronidation
- Acetylation
- N-Methylation
- O-Methylation
