Toxicity Flashcards
What is pharmacocognosy?
A branch of pharmacology that deals with the physical characteristics and botanic and animal sources of crude drugs.
What is pharmacotherapeutics?
The use of therapeutic uses and effects of drugs
What is chemotherapy?
The use of chemical agents in the treatment of control of disease or mental disorder.
What is pharmacogenomics?
Deals the influence of genetic variation on drug response .
Pharmacopoeia
It’s a book that contains the directions for the identification of samples and the preparation of compound medicines and is published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society.
Describe the drug diphenhydramine and its receptor?
Diphenhydramine is an H1 receptor antagonist used to ameliorate the effects of histamine in allergic conditions. The antagonist would cross the blood brain barrier and antagonist the H1 receptors in the CNS causing sleepiness.
Describe terfenadine?
It as 2nd generation H1 receptor antagonist that produces an off target effect by interaction with the cardiac potassium channels leading to cardiac death.
