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PK: Movement Across Cell Barriers & Ion Trapping Flashcards

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4 principles of pharmacokinetics

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ADME

  1. Absorption
  2. Distribution
  3. Metabolism
  4. Excretion
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What does endocytosis apply to

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Large molecules

Drugs get engulfed

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Formula for bioavailability

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What does distribution depend on (5)

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  1. Lipophilicity - a lipophilic drug will be distributed easier
  2. Blood flow e.g. brain vs skin
  3. Capillary permeability
  4. Plasma and tissue binding (albumin slows the process)
  5. Volume of distribution
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Formula for Volume of Distribution

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Principle of first order kinetics

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Rate of elimination is proportional to the [drug] conc in the body

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Zero order kinetics principle

Give an example

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Amount of drug eliminated is independent of drug conc in the body

ie rate of elimination is constant

e.g. aspirin

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Define steady state

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Rate of administration = rate of elimination

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What is the most important route of elimination

What challenge faces this route of elimination and how is it overcome

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Kidney

Cannot get rid of lipid soluble drugs as they are passively reabsorbed

  • Liver turns lipophilic drugs into water-soluble substances that are easily removed by kidneys
  • 2 metabolic rxns do this In liver
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Name the 6 INDUCERS of phase I of excretion in the liver

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PCRABS

  • Phenytoin
  • Carbamazepine
  • Rifampin
  • Alcohol - chronic
  • Barbituates
  • St John’s Wort
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Name the 7 inhibitors of phase I of elimination in the liver

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GPACMAN

  • Grapefruit
  • Protease inhibitors
  • Azole anti-fungals
  • Cimetidine
  • Macrolides (except azithomycin)
  • Amiodarone
  • Non-DHP CCBs (dialtiazem and verapamil)
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Overview of the 2 compartment model

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What is one of the first barriers an oral medication must overcome

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Epithelial lining of the GIT

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What is the major barrier to drug transport

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The hydrophobic core of a biological membrane

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What are the compartments a drug can move through

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What effect does the acidic environment of the stomach have on the ionised state of a drug

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  • Acidic drugs remain unionised in the stomach due to the acidic environment of the stomach
  • Basic drugs cannot be absorbed so they pass into pyloric sphincter into SI and are absorbed there
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Define first pass metabolism

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Drugs travel to the liver via the portal system, where they are immediately metabolised

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Define enterohepatic cycling

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Some drugs are secreted back into the SI via bile

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Why might not all the drug dose be absorbed

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Molecules may bind to intestinal content, so they cannot pass through mucosal cells

While other may be broken down by bacterium in ileum and colon

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oral dose vs IV dose

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How does an oral drug get to site of action

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  • Must cross the epithelial cell barrier that lines the GIT, and is then ABSORBED into blood
  • Then carried by blood to tissues (BULK FLOW) - crosses endothelial cell barrier from blood to tissue (DISTRIBUTION)
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Influence of chemical nature of drug on bulk flow

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Irrelevant

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Influence of chemical nature of drug on diffusion

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Diffusion depends on the drug

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Where is the epithelial barrier present

What does it consist of

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At GI mucosa and renal tubule

Consists of cells tightly connected to each other

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What do CNS and placenta contain
An impermeable layer of periendothelial cells (pericytes)
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Name the 4 main ways a drug crosses the membrane
1. By diffusing directly through lipid (main way) 2. By combination with a transmembrane carrier protein that binds a molecule on 1 side of the membrane then changes conformation and releases it on the other 3. By diffusing through aqueous pores formed by special proteins (aquaporins) that traverse the lipid 4. By pinocytosis (trapping within the cell of a small vesicle containing EC constituents e.g. insulin at BBB)
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Define Fick's Law
Rate of diffusion depends on the conc gradient of the drug across the membrane and on the thickness, area and permeability of the membrane
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What is diffusion directly through the lipid membrane dependent on
Conc of drug Oil/water partition coefficient Conc of protons SA of absorbing membrane \*\* not saturable and low structural specificity
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Facilitated diffusion
Passive in the direction of its electrochemical gradient
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Where is the active transport mechanism (with the carrier protein) important
* BBB * GIT: 5-fluorouracil * Renal tubule: penicillin * Biliary tract * Placenta
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What AA enters the brain by means of facilitated diffusion
L-dopa
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Unsaturable vs saturable process
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What is diffusion proportional to
The square root of MW
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What is the MW of most drugs
200-2000 Da
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How is lipid solubility measured
By the oil:water partition coefficient i.e. how avidly a drug dissolves in lipid compared to how avidly it dissolves in water Drugs with a high oil:water partition coefficient will be lipophilic and be able to readily traverse membranes
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# Define ion trapping What sort of substances does it occur with
Occurs when a drug, in its ionised state, gets trapped on 1 side of a membrane that divides 2 compartments with different pH values Occurs with weak acids and weak bases (exist in both ionised and unionised form) In either case the ionised form has very low lipid solubility and is virtually unable to permeate membranes except where a specific transport mechanism exists - % depends on pH of solution
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What would happen to weak acids in an acidic solution
They will not lose their proton in an acidic solution and therefore not become charged/ionised
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What will happen to weak bases in a basic solution
Will not gain a proton in a basic solution and therefore will not become charged/ionised
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HH equation for a weak base
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HH equation for a weak acid
pKa = -log(H+ dissociation constant)
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What does it mean when pH = pKa
The conc of ionised is the same as the conc of unionised
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Example of application of HH equation
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What effect does ion trapping have on pH partition
Ionisation affects not only the rate at which drugs permeate membranes but also the steady-state distribution of drug molecules between aqueous compartments Ratio is governed by pH and pKa (HH)
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What effect does ion trapping have on the drug at equilibrium
The total (ionised and unionised) concentration of the drug will be different in the 2 compartments, with an acidic drug being concentrated in the compartment with high pH (ion trapping) and vice versa
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pKa values of different drugs
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What happens when we alkalinise the urine
We can increase ionisation of acidic substances in the renal tubule and thereby prevent their tubular reabsorption IV Na+ bicarbonate infusion will increase plasma pH, increase urine pH and therefore increase salicylate excretion
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What sort of molecules can diffuse passively across the cell membrane
Small non-polar molecules
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How do some drugs (e.g. levodopa and valproate) traverse the BBB
Via transporters, which either facilitate entry into the brain or diminish it by pumping the compound from the endothelial cell interior back into the bloodstream
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How does active extrusion of drugs from the brain occur
Via P-glycoprotein, an ATP-driven drug efflux transporter, and related transporter proteins
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What happens to CNS-acting drugs in the brain
Actively extruded from the brain e.g. certain opioid, anti-depressant, anti-psychotic and anti-epileptic drugs
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Overview of transport of molecules
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What drugs can cross the placental barrier
Drugs with a MW of \< 600 - teratogens

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