The Body And Drugs

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Pharmacodynamics

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Study of how drugs produce their effects on desired cells and how a drug is processed by the body

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Drug receptors can be compared to a

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Lock

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Location where a drug will exert its desired effect

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Site of action

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Mechanism of action (MOA)

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Explains how a drug works and produces its desired effect on the body

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Receptor site

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Where the drug binds to the cell

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Agonist

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Specific type of dug that produces a certain and predicted action

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Antagonist

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Drug that does not produce any noticeable or desirable effects of its own, but blocks other chemicals from attaching to a receptor cell

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Desired effect

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Body’s response to a drug /intended response to a med

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Dose response curve

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Indicates the body’s response to a drug is directly related to the amount of the drug taken

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Ceiling

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Maximal response the body as to a drug

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ED50

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The measurement of the specific amount that is needed to achieve 50% of the maximal response

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Half-life

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Time required for plasma serum concentration levels of an absorbed and distributed drug to decrease by one half

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Half life is written as

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T1/2

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Time response curve

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Length of time in which a specific drug will continue to have same degree of effects

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Pharmacokinetics

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Study of time course of a drug and its metabolites in the body following drug administration by any route

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Pharmacokinetics

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Study of drug movement throughout the body

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Absorption

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Process by which the drug is moved from its site of administration into the blood steam

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Intravenous

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Type of drug administration that bypasses some of the aspects of absorption

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Distribution

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Process that the drug is moved from the blood stream to the body tissue or receptors

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Passive diffusion

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Movement of a substance across a cell membrane

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Facilitated diffusion

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A carrier protein permits specific molecules to pass though certain parts of the cell

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Pinocytosis

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The cell engulfs the substance and permits the substance to enter the cell

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More lipid soluble drug is the more. , the drug will be absorbed into a cell

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Quickly

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Clearance

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Time it takes a drug to be eliminated from the body

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Addiction

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Pattern of compulsive substance abuse characterized by a continued psychological and physiological crabbing or need for the substance and its effects

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Characteristics of addiction

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Absorbed focus, painful withdrawal, damaging consequences

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Number of Americans addicted to alcohol

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14 million

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Number of deaths associated with alcohol per year

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100,000

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Excessive alcohol drinking while taking warfarin can cause

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Blood clots

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Occasional alcohol drinking while taking warfarin can cause

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Internal bleeding

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Treatments for alcoholism

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Disulfiram, acamprosate calcium, naltrexone

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Drug treatments for smoking cessation

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Bupropion, verenicline, nicotine polaerilex

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Bioavailability

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Degree to which a drug becomes available to tissues after administration

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Metabolites

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Any substance produced by the metabolic process

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Excretion

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Process by which drugs are eliminated from the body

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A drug that is designed to produce an action rather than stop an action

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Agonist

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Drug works by blocking he action of a receptor

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Antagonist

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Potency is the measure meant of the ___ of the drug that is required to have a specific effect on the body

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Strength

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Chemicals that do not readily cross the cell membrane barrier

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Ionized

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Metabolism

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Bio transformation

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A drug that binds directly to cell membranes and is not absorbed by the body in any way

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Metamucil

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Facilitated diffusion

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Type of drug transportation into the cell that does not require the cell to expand energy

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When a chemical bind with a ______, it is stimulated to either produce or inhibit a specific action

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Receptor

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First pass process

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Process which the liver begins the absorption of an oral medication

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Maximal drug response to a drug reaches the ceiling, it can be toxic especially to

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Liver and kidneys

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Absorption

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Process of movement of the drug from the circulatory system across airier membranes to the site of a drug action

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Elimination

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Process that results in removal of drug from the body and the discontinuation of the drug action

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Metabolism

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Biochemical process involving transformation of active drugs to a compound that can be easily eliminated or inactive drugs to active drugs

Question 49

1 ml = gtt

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120

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5tbsp =. ml

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25ml

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120mg =. gr

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0.120 gr

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0.5 gr =. mg

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500mg

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10g =. mcg

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10,000,000

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8oz =. ml

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236ml

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44kg =. Lbs

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96.8lbs

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1pt =. Cc

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473.17cc

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2c =. Oz

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16oz

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1.5l =. Cc

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1,500 cc

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15tsp =. Oz

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2.5oz

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Target cell

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Large number of cells all of which are similar to each other

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Albumins and globulins

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Proteins that help with transporting chemicals though the blood

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Alcohol is a

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Depressant