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Which opiate receptor has the highest affinity for morphine

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Mu receptor

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What are endorphins and enkephalins

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Endogenous ligands for opiate receptors

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Drug definition

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A known chemical structure which when administered to a living organism produces a biological effect

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Types of drugs

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Synthetic chemicals, plant chemicals and biopharmaceuticals

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What is a biopharmaceutical

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Something that is made from DNA

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Medicine definition

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A chemical preperation that contains one or more drugs admnistered to produce a therapeutic effect

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What other compounds do medicines contain

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Excipients, stabilizers and solvents

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Examples of biopharmaceuticals

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Proteins (could be endogenous), engineered proteins, antibodies, oligonucleotides, gene therapy and regenerative medicine

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What is the first generation of biologics

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Copies of endogenous proteins produced by recombinant DNA technology

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What is the second generation of biologics

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Engineered proteins to improve antibodies

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Benefits of biologics

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Your body doesn’t accept them but treats them as another human antibody

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What can biologics be used for

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Treating cancer and immune diseases

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What does MAB mean at the end of a drug name

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Monoclonal antibody

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What does Humira do

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Recognises an inflammatory mediator known as TNF alpha

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How much does Humira cost

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14,000 million

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What is the basis of the Moderna vaccine to treat COVID

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Injecting people with mRNA that codes for a protein

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What is Pharmacoeconomics

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Considers the cost benefit of a drug

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What kind of proteins do drugs exert their actions on

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Receptors, enzymes, transporters, ion channels

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What macromolecules other than proteins can drugs exert their actions on to

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Antibiotics and antimicrobials

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How are receptors classified

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Structure, pharmacology, signalling mechanisms

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What can increasing the dose of a drug do and why

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Lead to unwanted side effects because no drug is 100% selective and specific

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What can malfunction and loss or receptors lead to

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Disease

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What is an agonist

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A drug that causes the receptor to switch on and bring about a change within the cell once bound to

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What is an inverse agonist

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When bound to a receptor, they reduce signalling to that receptor

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What are antagonists
When bound to receptor, they do nothing and blocks the receptor from carrying out its action
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What is morphine an agonist for
Mu receptor
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What are Mu receptors
They are g-coupled receptors in the location of the brain that processes pain and reward pathways
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What are blockers (drugs) and example
They enter the pore of the channel and prevent ions from moving through them. For example, Lidocaine
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What are modulators (drugs) and example
They modify the way the channel behaves, can open more or less. For example, Valium
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What does Lidocaine target
sodium channels that send information to the brain when you have a painful incident
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What do enzyme inhibitors do and example
The normal reaction is inhibited. For example, aspirin
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What do enzyme false substrates do
The molecule enters into the enzyme to produce something that is inactive/ abnormal metabolite is produced
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What do prodrug enzymes do
Active drug is produced
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Examples of transporter drugs
Prozac and digoxin
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What does Colchicine do
Disrupts the cytoskeleton and inhibits the invasion of immune cells into the inflamed joint
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What does Paclitaxel do
Targets and prevents the diasembly of microtubules
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What does Paclitaxel do
Targets and prevents the disassembly of microtubules to stop cell division
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Main side effects of opiate
Chronic constipation and respiratory issues
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Why is knowing where the receptor is in the body important
Helps us predict drug affects
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Examples of agonists for the MU-receptor
Morphine, heroin, methadone, codeine, fentanyl, beta-endorphins
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What is a ligand
Any molecule that binds to the receptor
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Examples of antagonists for the MU- receptor and what does it do
Naloxone, stops heroin activation
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What are the 4 types of receptor
Ligand- gated ion channels, g- coupled protein receptors, kinase linked receptors, nuclear receptors
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What is the largest class of receptor
G- coupled
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What is kinase
Any protein which has enzymatic activity that adds phosphate to another protein
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What are the fastest receptors
Ligand gated
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Slowest receptors
Nuclear (take a couple of hours
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What is the basic mechanism for ligand gated ion channels to open
Ions flow through aqueous pore which is opened when neurotransmitter/ agonist binds. Flow of ions leads to changes in membrane potential causing action potentials to fire
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Examples of ligand gated ion channels and the number of transmembrane domains
Nicotinic, 4 Glutamate, 3 P2XR, 2
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What happens when agonist binds to g-coupled receptors
They signal the change by activation of a g protein
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What are the g protein subunits in g coupled receptors
Alpha, beta and gamma
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What is the alpha subunit less attractive to (what happens next)
GDP so has a greater affinity to GTP. When GDP comes off GTP comes on
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What happens to the alpha subunit over time
It becomes a nuclear kinase
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What does activation of kinase receptors lead to
Changes in transcription
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What are cytokine receptors useful for
Regulate within the nucleus
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What is an important feature of nuclear receptors
They bind directly to DNA to regulate the transcription of genes
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What percentage of the mammalian genome is regulated by nuclear receptors
1%
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What is an autoimmune disease
Makes an antibody to itself and the target can be a receptor
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What is Myasthenia Gravis
Antibodies to nicotine acetylcholine receptors involving muscle contractions
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What is Gravis disease
Where a thyroid receptor is targeted leading to high metabolic rate, increased skin temperature
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What can epilepsy be caused by
A mutation leading to increased stimulus to a receptor
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What do mutations in the beta- 2 adreno receptors lead to
Means that inhalers don't work
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What is affinity
A chemical property that defines how likely they are to come together
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What is the constant for the forward and backward reaction
K+1 and K-1
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What is how good a molecule is at fixing a receptor governed by
efficacy
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What is the number of receptors that are occupied by a drug in one point of time determined by
affinity
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what is KD
A constant that defines the affinity of a drug for that receptor
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What is the forward rate of a reaction defined by
The forward rate constant multiplied by the concentration of the agonist and concentration of receptors
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What is the order of reaction for the forward rate and why
Second order because it depends on the concentration of two types of molecules
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What is the reverse rate of reaction equation
k-1[AR]
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What is the dissociation constant equal to
The reverse reaction divided by the forward reaction
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What is KD a direct measurement of
affinity
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What is occupancy governed by
Affinity
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Equation for occupancy
number of receptors occupied/ total number of receptors
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What does occupancy vary between
0 (no drug present) and 1 (all receptors occupied)
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How do we measure affinity
Radioligand binding assay
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What are the steps for measuring receptor affinity
Mix these two together, incubate them and filter the sample so only thing left is the receptors bound radioligand, then analyse the data
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what are some considerations for measuring receptor affinity
Controlling the temperature so proteins aren't digested Adding antioxidants in case the molecules released from the cells are oxidisable Free radical scavenger to stop degradation Avoiding light
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What must the radioligand be in measuring receptor affinity
Must be biologically active and pure chemically
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Advantages of using hydrogen in measuring receptor affinity
Won't cause issues to the structure, affinity will be maintained Powerful radioactive substance Long half life
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Disadvantages of using hydrogen in measuring receptor affinity
Specialised labs required, labelling is expensive and difficult
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Advantages of using iodine in measuring receptor affinity
Similar size of aromatic amino acids Chemistry involved is straight forward
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Disadvantages of using iodine in measuring receptor affinity
Easily degradable, more radical change in structure of the molecule
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How do you separate the bound from the free in measuring receptor affinity
Wash away the none bound drug
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What is non-specific binding
The ligand will bind to other things in addition to the receptors e.g. plastic test tube
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How to stop non-specific binding
Setting up two test tubes in parallel, add a known concentration of radioactive drug to one and a huge excess of non-radioactive drug to the other Non-radioactive drug will outcompete radioactive drug Subtract non-specific binding from the total to get the specific binding
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What does affinity give us an indication of
What levels, of drug are needed in the body to have a therapeutic effect and a way of identifying and defining the type of receptor
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What kind of relationship do we get between the concentration and the amount of binding
Sigmoidal
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What happens to the values in a sigmoidal relationship
They plateau, shows 100% occupancy
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What does 100% occupancy mean
100% of the receptors in that tissue are occupied by that drug
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What is the Langmuir equation
Bound= bmaxXa/ (Xa + KD)
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The concentration that occupies 50% of the total number of receptors present gives us a direct measure of what
KD
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What does a low KD show
High affinity
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What can the drug Pirenzepine distinguish
Distinguishes between the subtypes of muscarinic receptora

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