RE Chapter 5 Flashcards
Using dose response curves, the actions of drug can be quantified and expressed as the effective dose (ED50), toxic dose (TD50) and lethal dose (LD50). The therapeutic index is is the:
This is known as the _______ drug response:
LD50/ED50
Quantal Drug Response
The number and activity of a receptor population may increase or decrease in response to (usually) chronic drug administration. This is known as:
Receptor adaptation (tolerance)
In biochemistry a molecule that is able to bind and form a complex with a receptor to produce a biologic response.
Ligand
Examples of ligands?
Endogenous chemicals such as neurotransmitters or hormones that are administered exogenously as drugs.
Very rapid development of tolerance, frequently with acute drug administration, is known as _____________.
tachyphylaxis
Common causes of tachyphylaxis:
up or down regulation, enzyme induction, depleted neurotransmitters, protein conformational changes, and changes in gene expression.
According to the space receptor concept- the relationship between the number of receptors stimulated and the response is usually linear or nonlinear?
nonlinear (pg 60)
A maximal response or near maximal response can occur often by activation of only a fraction of the receptors present.
A drug or endogenous chemical that binds to a receptor resulting in the opposite action of the agonist is known as….
Inverse agonist.
A drug or endogenous chemical that activates a receptor but cannot produce a maximum response but may also partially block an agonist is termed
Give an example
A partial agonist or agonist-antagonist.
nalbuphine
What is the difference between the terms efficacy and affinity:
Efficacy is the drugs ability to deliver the desired response and may also be expressed as intrinsic activity relating to its maximum effect. Affinity is based on the drugs potency where the most potent drug requires the lowest dose.
A drug that has affinity for a receptor but no efficacy is termed:
Antagonist.
In general an agonist or antagonist commonly has a higher affinity for a receptor?
Antagonist.
Competitive or noncompetitive antagonists are reversible?
competitive is reversible, noncompetitive is not.
The primary site for of anesthetic action is now considered to be ________, not the lipid bilayer surrounding the nerve cells.
membrane receptors
What is the primary mechanism of action of inhalation and IV anesthetics?
the potentiation of GABA (the inhibitory y-aminobutyric acid receptor)
The recovery time from IV anesthetics is described in terms of….
context sensitive half- time
The difference between context sensitive half-time and drug half-life is:
context sensitive half-time takes into account the duration of anesthetic administration not just the drug redistribution and elimination profiles. (like running a propofol TIVA for 10 hours vs an intubating dose?)
Name the three common properties of receptors:
sensitivity, selectivity, and specificity
List the bonds that form between drug and receptor from weakest to strongest:
(hydrogen, ionic, van der Waals, hydrophobic and covalent)
van der Waals hydrophobic hydrogen ionic covalent
Name the 7 receptor classifications
7-transmembrane receptors Ligand-gated ion channels Ion channels catalytic receptors nuclear receptors transporters enzymes
The GABA-A inhibitory receptor has been implicated and suggested as a primary site of IV anesthetics…except for which drug??
Ketamine
Volatile anesthetics like N2O, des, sevo and iso bond to cell receptors by means of…..covalent, ionic, hydrogen or hydrophobic bonding?
nonspecific hydrophobic bonding mechanisms
Some endogenous proteins, like Albumin, provide alternative drug binding sites known as ___________. What type of drug generally binds here?
acceptors
acidic drugs
How do acceptors affect drug administration?
drugs bound to acceptors are not available to interact with receptors, highly protein bound drugs are therefore less available for active drug concentrations.
_____________ refers to the processes by which a cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another.
signal transduction
The signal sequences or cascades achieved by signal transduction are commonly referred to as _________
second messenger pathways
Receptor signaling translates changes to _______________, that are linked to second messengers such as ___________________.
G proteins
cAMP or cGMP
The second messengers regulate enzymes such as ___________ which do what?
protein kinases and phosphatases which drive their ultimate intracellular actions.