Pharmacology Flashcards
Pharmcodynmaics
Giving people drugs and looking for responses
focus on effect
Therapeutics
The dosage and the frequency that you give the drug to the patient
therapeutic effect—>normal dosing of a drug—>desired effect
Toxicology
Toxicity of drugs and environmental substances
Toxic effect—>patient takes toxic amount of dosage
Drug action
Molecular action—>invisible
can produce different effect when exposing to different tissues (ex. caffeine)
2 different actions can produce similar effect on certain tissue
Drug effect
pharmacologic effect—>visible response
a summation of all molecular actions
Secondary effect of drugs
usually side effect—>sometimes it is desired like caffeine for asthma patients (increase respiration)
1 mole equal to
6.022 x 10^23 molecules
Drug receptors
macromolecules that are usually interact with endogenous compounds
many drug receptor interactions (augment/inhibit) —>change in function of the cell—>pharmacologic response
Emax
max effective dose to illicit max effect from a tissue
can be picked during the development of the drug to avoid secondary effect
Reversible drug-receptor bond
ionic/van der waals/hydrogen
Irreversible drug-receptor bond
covalent
G protein couple function
Drug and receptor interaction is short
G protein amplifies drug-receptor interaction into a longer effecting time
The function of G protein (cleavage into alpha and beta/gamma subunits) depends on ATP level of the cell
The making of drugs
Find the endogenous compound—>make a drug that is similar to it—>the more similar the better
Stereoisomer—>one would fit and the other would block or do nothing
Dose response relationship
The amount of drug to take to reach certain state (like how much alcohol to drink to get tipsy)
EC50
check page 12 for log dose response curve
the amount of drug that induce a response halfway between the baseline and Emax or the amount of drug needed to induce a response for 50% of the population
Spare receptors
refer to page 13 for the graph
For certain agonist—>you dont have to occupy all the receptor to illicit the maximal response
sometime drugs has to occupy all spare receptors to achieve Emax (low intrinsic activity)
Intrinsic activity
ability to stimulate the receptor once bound
drugs with best intrinsic activity—>bring it to Emax
Secondary receptor
outside target tissues—>may cause side effects
What could happen if you keep giving a patient an agonist?
Receptors got overstimulated by drugs over time—>homeostasis—>desensitize the receptors (by decrease the number of it/decrease sensitivity)
Give the cell a break—>get full response again
What could happen if you abruptly stop an antagonist drug?
Hypersensitivity through homeostasis trying to compensate for the low level of activity of certain tissues
Antagonist
Bind to receptor but does not produce effect—>block agonist from binding it
Would the good agonist have more or less molecules (high or low doses) present at the cell?
Less (and low dose), since it doesnt take much for it to reach Emax, but it will take the not so good agonist more molecules to achieve it
What happen if the weak agonist has the same intrinsic activity as the strong one?
You need higher dose for the weak one to achieve Emax
What are the two ways to quantify agonist?
refer to page 19 for the graph
Efficacy—>intrinsic activity (verrical relation on the log dose curve)
Potency—>the amount of drug that is needed to reach Emax (horizontal relation on the curve)