Pharmacokinetics And Drug Formulations Flashcards
What’s Pharmacodynamics (PD)?
Refers to effects of drugs on patients body (MOA)
Also used to explain effect of drug on organism eg bacterioSTATIC or bactericidal
What’s pharmacokinetics?PK
Study of time course of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion
Types of drug admin sites?
Intravascular admin
Extravascular admin
What’s Intravascular admin?
Where drug is placed directly into the blood either intravenously or intra-arterially
What’s extravascular admin?
Oral, sublingual, buccal, IM, SC, dermal, pulmonary, topical ocular, intraocular and rectal
Is there drug absorption when drug is admin intravascular admin?
No! (Drug is placed directly into systemic circulation)
What’s dissolution?
Oral dosage form dissolving in GI tract and drug is released from the dosage form
Why’s protective coating used in some drugs?
To limit drug degradation, which occurs primarily by hydrolysis
By preventing drug dissolution in acidic gut medium, but permits dissolution in basic medium of intestine
How is dissolution rate increased in drug with poor absorption?
To reduce particle diameter, which increases the surface area
What describes rate of dissolution?
Noyes-Whitney eqn
What determines rate and extent to which drug dissolves in GI fluid?
Solubility of drug
T/F? Only dissolved drug is absorbed into the body?
T
How does systemic absorption occur?
Passive diffusion - across gut wall
Active transport - via transport proteins
When does passive diffusion occur?
When there’s a high conc of drug in gut lumen and it moves to equalize drug conc (reach equilibrium) across the gut wall
Whats bioavailability?
Extent to which a drug is absorbed into systemic circulation
% of drug absorbed from extravascular admin RELATIVE TO intravascular admin
Howz bioavailability calculated?
Using Area under the plasma conc time curve (AUC)