Test 1

Question 1

What is pharmacology

Answer 1

Study of drugs that alter functions of living organisms

Question 2

What is drug therapy

Answer 2

Use of drugs to prevent, or treat sign symptoms and disease process

Question 3

Metabolism - cytochrome 450(enzyme)

Answer 3

Impacts the ability to metabolize drugs

Question 4

Inactive metabolites

Answer 4

Have no biological effect

Question 5

Active metabolites

Answer 5

Produces some sort of biological effect

Question 6

Prodrugs

Answer 6

Become active when they are metabolized

Question 7

What is bioavailability

Answer 7

It is how much medication is in the blood stream

Question 8

Excretion

Answer 8

Elimination of the drug form the body

Question 9

Agonists

Answer 9

Drugs that interact with a receptor to stimulate a response

Question 10

Antagonists

Answer 10

Attach to a receptor but does not stimulate a response

Question 11

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 11

How to the medications move through the body via their administration

Question 12

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 12

How target cells in the body respond to the medication

Question 13

Additive

Answer 13

When drugs interact their combined effects increase the therapeutic effect

Question 14

Synergism

Answer 14

When drugs interact and the drugs work together that amplifies their combined therapeutic effects

Question 15

Interference

Answer 15

When drugs interacts and one stops another

Question 16

Displacement

Answer 16

When the drugs interact they compete to bind to the specific site so the first drug that was bound to the receptor will get “kicked out” and released into the bloodstream, therefore increasing the effects while the second drug binds to the now available receptor and continues to increase the effects of the drug

Question 17

What is distribution dependent on

Answer 17

Perfusion and protein

Question 18

Serum drug level

Answer 18

A lab measurement of the amount of drug within the blood

Question 19

Inactivation

Answer 19

The drug stops certain activities in the cell

Question 20

Activation

Answer 20

The drug can start
/ speed up activities in the cell

Question 21

Alteration

Answer 21

The drug can change how some things work inside the cell

Question 22

Transduction of pain

Answer 22

Pain begins when there is a harmful stimulus and activates nerve endings called nocioreceptors that are located throughout the body

Question 23

Transmission of pain

Answer 23

Propagation of signal: these electric signals along fiber that are part of the peripheral nervous system neurotransmitters release signals that continue along the nerve pathway

Question 24

Somatic pain

Answer 24

Localized in skin, bone, soft tissue from stimulation of nocioceptors

Question 25

Visceral pain

Answer 25

Pain resulting from stimulation of nociceptors in the abdominal and thoracic regions

Question 26

Neuropathic pain

Answer 26

Caused by lesions or changes to the peripheral pain nerves