Vocabulary Flashcards
Learn Vocabulary for Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Clearance (Clint)
A fundamental Pharmacokinetic term that refers to the ability of the body to eliminate a drug. Clearance = (rate of elimination)/(concentration of drug in biofluid). Total body clearance ius actually the sum of clearance by renal, liver, and other mechanisms
Total Body Clearance
Sum of clearance by renal, liver, and other mechanisms
cLogP or cLogD
Calculated or theoretical LogP; @ single pH value, or across pH spectrum
CYP’s
Cytochrome p450 enzymes that oxidatively metabolize drugs in the liver, subtypes; 1a@, 2C9, 2C19, 2D6 and 3A4
Distribution
A pharmacokinetic term that refers to the movement of a drug from the site of administration into the various tissues and organ systems of the body. In most cases, distribution is used to describe the passage of a drug out of the vascular system to other compartments of the body
EC50
The molar concentration of an agonist which produces 50% of the maximum possible response for that agonist
Efficacy
Describes the way in which agonists vary in the response they produce, even when they occupy the same number of receptors
Excretion
A pharmacokinetic term that refers to the irreversible removal of a drug in the unchanged form. Excretion is one of two processes (metabolism, excretion) that account for the elimination of a drug from the body. The kidney is the typical site of drug excretion, although excretion may occur at the liver, lungs, etc.
First pass metabolism
Drugs which are absorbed from the gut travel directly to the liver where some are extensively metabolized before they can reach their intended site of action
Fu
Fraction unbound, see protein binding
GLP
Good Laboratory Practices
GMP
Good Manufacturing Practices
Hepatic Clearance
The hepatic clearance is the amount of drug removed by the liver as calculated by determinining the amount of drug presented to the liver by the hepatic artery and the portal vein and the amount of drug found leaving the liver in the hepatic vein. It should be noted that the liver has the greatest metaboli capacity of any organ
HTL
Hit-to-lead
HTS
High throughput screening
ia
Intra-arterial; in to the lumen of the artery
ic
intracerebral; into the brain
IC50
Where an agonist causes an inhibitory response, the IC50 is the molar concentratoin which produces 50% of its maximum possible inhibition
icv
Intracerebroventricular administration; into the ventricles of the brain
id
Intradermal; into the dermal layer of the skin
im
intramuscular; into a skeletal muscle
IND
Investigational New Drug
Intrinsic Activity
A term used to describe the mathematical relationship between a receptor occupancy and a tissue response. (Term exchangeable with Efficacy)
Inverse Agonist
A drug which produces an effect opposite to that of an agonist, yet acts at the same receptor
ip
intraperitoneal; into the peritoneal cavity
it
Intrathecal; into the spinal canal
iv
Intravenous; into a vein
IVT
In Vivo Toleration
LogP
A measure of the lipophilicity of a compound; its partition coefficient between an organic solvent (usually octantal) and an aqueous buffer.
Mechanism of Action (MOA)
This refers to the specific biochemical actions of a drug on a biological system that account for the effects produced by the drug