Variability in drug response Flashcards
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Define tachyphylaxis
Repeated administration of a drug is associated with a rapid decrease in response to that drug over a short time period
Give an example of tachyphylaxis
E,g, ephedrine or metaraminol leads to depletion of noradrenaline stores
Most common mechanism is depletion of stores of a transmitter before resynthesis can take place
What is desensitisation?
De-sensitisation refers to chronic loss fo response over a longer period and may be cause by structural change in receptor morphology or by absolute loss of receptor numbers. Often used synonymously with tachyphylaxis —> beta receptor depletion in the use of adrenaline
Give an example
Define tolerance
Increased doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect
What mechanisms have been postulated for tolerance occuring (5)
- Decreased receptor density
- Structural changes in receptor morphiology changing affinity
- Altered response to drug receptor activation
- Enzyme induction —> decreased quantity of drug reaches the site of action
- Development of physiological compensatory mechanisms
Give an example of pharmacological tolerance and the different ways it effects primary reason for use, modifications of this tolerance and side effects
- Opioids
◦ Cross tolerance
◦ Analgesia - decreased duration of analgesia and then decreased intensity of analgesia
◦ Euphoria
◦ Respiratory depression - tolerance slower less than the analgesia
◦ Less tolerance to constipation and miosis - Nitrates - sulfhydryl groups on vascular smooth muscle become depleted
Define addiction
Repetitive compulsive use of psychoactive substances known by the user to be harmful
Define dependence
Physical or psycho.logical state associated with withdrawal symptoms when the drug administered is abruptly ceased
E.g. opioids with halo one exaggerating symptoms, and the symptoms are abolished by a small dose of an opioid
Outline what idiosyncracy is in the context of drug effects, mechanisms (3) and key characteristics (2)
Examples (4)
Adverse drug reactions can be divided into? (2)
Involvement of genetics? Relationship to dose? Mechanisms 2/3
Example
Define hypersensitivity reactions
exaggerated or inappropriate immune response
Histamine structurally is what?
Low molecular weight, endogenous amine synthesised in tissued by decarboxylation of histidine
What receptors does histamine act on?
H1
H2
H3
H1 receptor activation causes what? (4)
- Smooth muscle contraction in resp + GIT
- Increase release of prostacyclin from endothelial cells AND release of nitric oxide
- CVS central - slow AVN conduction, coronary vasoconstriction
- Peripheral vasodilation, increased capillary perameability
H2 receptor activation causes what?
- Bronchodilation
- Gastric - increased H+ secretion
- Cardiac 0 increased HR and contractility, coronary vasodilation
- Peripheral vasodilation and increased permeability
H3 receptor does what
decreases synthesis and reelase of histamine
Seratonin structurally is what? Synthesised from?
Monoamine neurotransmitter
Synthesed from L trytophan
Receptor subtypes for seratonin
5HT3 ligand gated ion channel
5HT1, 2, 4,5 6, 7 GPCR
Bradykinin is structurally what?
small autocoids, polypeptide of low molecular weight synthsed from kininogens which are plasma alpha 2 globulins
What are the functions of Prostaglandins?
- Pain - inflammation, sensitise peripheral nerve endings
- Mediated pyrogenic response and inflammation
- GIT - decreased gastric acid secretion, increased protective mucous secretion
- Renal blood flow regulation
PGI2 - bronchodilates, vasodilates. plt aggregation
What is a type 2 hypersensitivty reaction? e.g.
IgG or IgM bind to a cell surface antibody –> classical pathway of complement activation leading to cell lysis, phagocytosis and inflammation
e.g. HUS, HITTS
What is the difference between anaphylaxis and non allergy anaphylactoid reactions
Anaphylaxis - IgE mediated mast cell degranulation, requiring prior sensisation, live threatening and dose independent
Anaphylactoid - mast cell degranulation by substances, no prior exposure, less severe and more linked to dose
What allergies/reactions can latex cause
Irritatnt contact dermatitis
Anaphylaxis
Delayed hypersensitivity reaction
If you were to characterise mechansism of drug reactions into 3 groups how would you do it?
1/ provide example
2. 4
3. 4 types of response
Physicochemical
* Pharmaceutical - thiopental + succ —> precipitate
* Chelation - tetracyclines +calcium —> decreased absorption
Pharmacokinetic
* Absorption e.g. second gas effect
* Distribution - compete for the same protein binding sites
* Metabolism - enzyme induction and inhibition
* Excretion - compete for the same active transport system
Pharmacodynamic
* Antagonism
* Summation - net effect is equal to the sum of the individual effects
◦ Combination of 2 drugs with identical mechanism of action
◦ E.g. two different opioids
* Potentiation
◦ One drug increases the effect of another
◦ One fo the drugs has no independent action on its own
◦ E.g. aminoglycosides increase competitive neuromuscular blockade
* Synergism
◦ The net effect is more than the sum of the individual effects
◦ Combination of drugs that exert similar effects but have different mechanisms of action
◦ E.g. NSAID and opioids