Pharmacology Flashcards

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What is pharmacology?

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A branch of science that deals with the study of drugs and their actions on living systems

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What are the integral branches of pharmacology?

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Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics

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What is pharmacodynamics?

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What the drug does to the body
Drug action and mechanism

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What is pharmacokinetics?

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What the body does to the drug
Barriers (ADME)

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What are the key drug binding sites?

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Dugs as enzyme inhibitors or substrates
Drugs targeting transporters
Drug targeting voltage gated ion channels
Drugs targeting receptors

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What are the general characteristics of receptors?

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Selectivity of ligands
Molecular switch
Amplification of signal

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What is specificity in biology?

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Right target

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What is specificity in chemistry?

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Right target binding site

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What assessment is more critical risk or benefit?

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Risk

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Out of affinity and efficacy what traits do agonists and antagonists have ?

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Agonists have affinity and efficacy
Antagonists only have affinity

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What is affinity?

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The ability of drug binding to receptor

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What is efficacy?

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The ability of drug to activate the receptor

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What is the concentration required to occupy 50% at equilibrium of receptor called?

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kD

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What is an empirical measurement of antagonist potency?

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EC50
Effective Concentration of agonist for 50% response

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Why is potency often lower than affinity?

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spare receptors/ receptor reserves

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what is a drug?

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chemical with a selective therapeutic agent

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what does it mean when a drug targetting enzyem is reversable?

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leaves enzyme without changes the active site

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what does it mean when a drug targetting enzyme is irreversible?

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stays on enzyme longer changing the active site

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what is compettive binding?

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drug compeats for active site on enzyme

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what is noncompetitive binding?

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drug binds to a different site on the enzyme which leads to the substrate bot being able to bind

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what happens when transpotrters are in a normal state and then what happens when a drug has targeted the transporters?

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transporters take back the neurotransmitters released from the presynaptic cleft after a stimulation of receptors
a drug blocks transporters which leads to no more neurotransmission to be taken back to the pre synaptic cleft

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what happens when there is an ion channel blocking drug?

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block sodium channel to stop depolarisation

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what are the types of receptors that drugs target?

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nuclear
ligand gated ion channels
catalytic receptors
g-protein coupled receptors

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what happens when an inactive receptors binds with a drug?

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becomes active and releases a signal

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what are the general characteristics of receptors?
amplification of signals
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what is relativity in terms of drug?
everything is poisonus, nothing is poisonus it is all a question of dose
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what is an agonist?
deactivates the receptor but produces a similar response that would have already be given
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what is an antagonist?
block the receptor reduce the response oppose the agonist function
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what are the stages of drug receptor binding?
drug+receptor(inactive) drug/receptor (inactive) drug/receptor(active)
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what stages of drug receptor binding show affinity?
drug+receptor(inactive) drug/receptor(inactive)
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what stages of drug receptor binding show efficacy?
drug/receptor(inactive) drug/receptor (active)
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what is a full agonist?
produces 100% response has a receptor reserve
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what is a partial agonist?
produces less than 100% max response with maximal receptor occupation
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what does a competitive antagonist do?
block binding by occupying the binding site
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what does a non-competitive antagonist do?
blocks response by binding different binding site from the agonist
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what are the possible types of drug antagonisms?
decreased absorption/altered distribution increased metabolism increased renal excretion different physcological mechanism
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what does low kD mean in terms of deug affinity?
higher drug affinity?
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when doing the graph how do you change the units for ease of use to see what 50% is?
change concentration to log(M)
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what does 100% on the conc/potency mean?
efficacy of drug concentration receptor max
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in what shape should the conc/potency graph be?
sigmoid curve
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what is the result of a full agonist?
100% response with 50% occupation (can be different for each receptors)
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what is the result of a partial agonist?
1005 receptor occupancy but produces less than 100% response
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what is endogenus?
inside the body
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what does a reversable antagonist do?
dissociate from receptor increase against conc can lead to more response against can achieve max with more conc
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what is the general structure of catalytic receptors?
outside: N terminal and binding site cell membrane site inside: enzyme domains and C terminal
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what is receptor tyrosine kinase used for?
receptor for growth factors Epidermal growth factor- EGF Vascular endothelial growth factor-VEGF Insulin Neurotrophins Insulin-like growth factor- IGF Platelet-derived growth factor- PDGF & many others
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what are the characteristics of receptor tyrosine kinase?
Growth factor binding RTK, leads dimerization and autophosphorylation One tyrosine kinase activate autophosphorylation of its partner and vice versa Signalling proteins recruited to RTK Signalling proteins contains SH2 domain to sense and bind specific RTK (specificity)
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what are SH2 domain proteins?
Some SH2 domain proteins are enzymes They directly produce signals: e.g. phospholipase C- activation leads intracellular calcium release and PK C activation Some SH2 domain proteins are adaptors They link the RTK with the signalling protein -e.g. Grb2 links between EGF receptor and SOS, a regulator of the Ras-MAP kinase pathway (
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what are the characteristics of guanynyl cyclase receptors?
Limited membrane bound e.g- atrial natriuretic peptide (recollect CVS lecture 5) -released from atria, promotes vasodilation and urinary sodium excretion GTP--> cGMP-->PK G--> vasodilation
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what ions are most abundant in the body?
cations: sodium, potassium, calcium anions: chloride, phosphate, fluoride
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what are the key features and properties of ion channels?
1. selective membrane pore 2. types of sensors or molecular switch 3. specific sensor for gating (open and close) 4. regulatory mechanisms
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what is a p-loop in an ion channel?
selectively filter/molecular sieve- alogn together to form a transmembrane
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what is a S4-voltage sensor in a ion channel?
contains positively charged aminoacids- can move up and down in response to changes in membrane potential
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what can voltage gated ion channels be influenced by?
other inorganic ions neurotoxins drugs
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what is use dependany of sodium ion channel?
the ion bockade is dependant on the rate of action potential discharge
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what are the differengt types of calcium ion channels?
t-type n-type l-type
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what process does potassium ion channel go through?
repolarisation and hyperpolarisation
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what are the characteristics of ligand gated ion channels?
* N & C terminus are located extracellular * Extracellular ligand binding site * S2 transmembrane domain forms the pore lining * 5 different subunits attach to form a pentamer
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what is the process in ligand-gated cation channels?
Cation channels (Na+) – nicotinic Ach, glutamate, 5HT, P2X > Depolarisation >> Excitatory
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what is the process in ligand-gated anion channels?
Anion channel (Cl-): GABA >> GABAA ICl >> Hyperpolarisation >> Inhibitory
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what are the advantages of allosteric drugs?
*offers a novel pharmacological options of “fine-tuning” receptor function * *intensify a weakened hormone/ NT signal caused by localised deficit * *Clinically safer drugs with enhanced selectivity and reduced liability for receptor tolerance and/or desensitation