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What is a drug?

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Any substance that interacts with a biological system and changes it

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What are two types of drugs?

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Low-molecular-weight drugs and Biologic

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What is pharmacology good for?

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knowing what drugs exist and their benefits and side effects, drug categorisation, quantifying drug action (proper dosing)=good prescription practise

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Why do drugs that cause their effects by their physiochemical properties tend to need higher concentrations?

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Due to non-specific effects

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Give examples of drugs that produce their effects via their physiochemical properties

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Antacids (Sodium Bicarbonate)
Laxatives
Heavy metal antidotes
Osmotic diuretics
General anaesthetics
Alcohol
Li+ ions
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What are common drug characteristics?

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effects occur at very low concentrations with high potency and can be very specific (biological or chemical specificity)

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What is biological specificity?

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specificity relating to the side of the receptor/biological system (receptor or target)

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What is chemical specificity?

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specificity relating to the substance added to the biological system (ligand or agonist)

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Give an example of drug stereo-specificity

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Thalidomide-two racemic forms->given as R form for pain relief but experienced in vivo racemisation to S form which had terrible side effects

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What is an organoid?

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A small and simplified version of an organ which is used to model a human disease

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What is an organoid used for?

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Monitoring disease development and drug testing

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Give an example of organoid formation

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Embryonic stem cell+skin fibroblast->Pluripotent stem cell culture-endoderm differentiation->sphenoid culture->matrigel culture->intestinal epithelial mesenchymal organoid

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What is the receptor concept?

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That drugs produce their effect by combining with specific receptor sites in cells and the response correlates to the number of occupied receptors

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What is the lock and key hypothesis?

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The shape of the drug is complementary to the shape of the receptor (chemical specificity)

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What is drug affinity?

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The binding ‘strength’ of the drug-receptor interaction or the ‘likelihood’ of binding

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Equation for the drug-receptor interaction

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A+R⇌AR->active AR
A=drug
R=receptor

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What is an agonist?

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A substance that binds to a receptor and produces a response-produces affinity and efficacy

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What is an antagonist?

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A substance that binds to a receptor but doesn’t produce a response and blocks agonist binding and response-possesses affinity but not efficacy

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Equation for antagonist-receptor interaction

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Ant+R⇌AntR-X->effect

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What is quantitative pharmacology?

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The assumption that drugs act by entering into a simple chemical relation with certain receptors in cells and that there is a simple relation between the amount of drug fixed by these receptors and the action produced (A+R⇌AR->active AR)

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Relationship between drug concentration and response is:

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continuous, saturating (hyperbolic curve, sigmoidal when log[agonist]) and exhibits threshold

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What is EC50?

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The drug concentration that produces half the maximum response/efficacy->model-free equivalent of Kd

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What is specificity?

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The capacity of a drug/receptor to manifest only one kind of action

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What are two assumptions made when mapping the relationship between drug concentration and response?

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1) ‘response’ scales with concentration of drug-receptor complexes
2) fixed number of receptors

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Equation relating to law of mass action/drug-receptor interaction
``` A+R⇌ AR Kd=[A].[R]/[AR] units of Kd=mol/litre [A]=agonist conc. [R]=receptor conc. Kd=dissociation constant ```
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What does the Kd (dissociation constant) equation derive to?
p(constant of response)=[A]/Kd+[A]
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How do signalling cascades result in lower doses of the drug required?
Large signal amplification meaning low dose has larger effect than expected
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What are the different natures of drug receptors?
Enzymes Ion channels Transporters (pumps, transport proteins) 'Physiological' receptors
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Give two obscure natures of drug receptors
DNA/RNA and the ribosome | targets of monoclonal antibodies
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What are "dirty drugs"?
Drugs that have many targets causing unwanted/unplanned effects
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How are steroid hormones a type of "dirty drug"?
They bind to intracellular nuclear receptors but also activate membrane-bound GPCRs-effect is often the result of the interplay between the two mechanisms
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Give an example of a "dirty drug" having different effects at different dosings
Aspirin: lower dose=blood thinner (anti-thrombotic) higher dose=pain killer
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What are the ways of regulating cell function?
Alteration of membrane potential, alteration of enzyme activity, alteration of gene expression->most drugs affect cell function via (physiological) receptors, acting 'hormone-like'
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How are receptors classified?
On the basis of the selective action of drugs, they are named according to the transmitter/hormone with which they interact (eg. AChRs)
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What are the 5 receptor super-families?
Integral ion channels (eg. nicotinic/glycine receptors) Integral tyrosine kinases (eg. insulin receptor) Steroid receptors (eg. oestrogen receptor) GPCRs (eg. muscarinic receptors) Cytokine receptors (eg. prolactin/EPO receptor)
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What is the action of integral ion channels?
They transport ions causing a change in the voltage across the membrane
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What is the action of integral tyrosine kinases?
They have a large extracellular domain which is busy in ligand binding and dimerisation, signal is transduced by conformational change which brings intracellular domain closer, phosphorylation of intracellular part=activation
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Where do steroid receptors usually act?
In the nucleus, but are located in the cytoplasm
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What are the two defining features of a steroid receptor?
DBD=DNA-binding domain->mediates receptor binding to genomic sites LBD=ligand-binding domain->where ligand binds, functions like a folding sensor: without ligand=unfolded, with ligand=folded
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What is the action of steroid (nuclear) receptors?
as long as domain hasn't bound to ligand it's unfolded, makes it a substrate to folding helper enzyme (heat shock protein-HSP), grabs and holds tightly, forms HSP/NR complex, hormone (ligand) binds to LBD, HSP removed, NR/hormone complex, dimerisation of NR, moves into nucleus, DBD binds NR to target gene
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Why do GPCRs have multiplicity?
homo- and heterodimers and several G subunits with different effects
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What is agonism?
Various ways drugs produce effects by binding to receptors
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What is antagonism/desensitisation?
Various ways drugs block effects by binding to receptors
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What is the % agonist response of a full agonist?
100%
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What is the % agonist response of a super agonist?
>100%
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What is the % agonist response of a partial agonist?
0%>x>100%
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What is the % agonist response of an antagonist/no agonist?
0%-binds and does nothing, doesn't alter spontaneous openings
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What is the % agonist response of partial/full inverse agonists?
<0%-reduces spontaneous activity
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What is an allosteric effect?
The binding of a ligand to one site on a protein molecule in such a way that the properties of another site on the same protein are affected
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Give an example of allosteric effects on receptors
benzodiazepine agonists bind to GABAaRs on a different site on the protein channel and increase GABA affinity to GABAaRs, increase channel opening, increasing Cl- ion influx
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What is the allosteric effect of benzodiazepine antagonists/inverse agonists on GABAaRs?
their binding doesn't cause Cl- ion efflux but will prevent the ion channel opening-reduced/no influx of Cl-
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What are 'super agonists'?
Highly efficacious agonists that produce a maximal response from the cell without binding to all the available receptors
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What are partial agonists?
Low efficacy agonists that cannot produce the cell's maximal response, even when they have bound to all available receptors
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What is a competitive antagonist?
A substance with a relatively similar shape to the agonist, so binds reversibly to the same site as the agonist
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What effect does a competitive antagonist have on agonist dose/response curves?
Parallel shift to the right due to a slower rate of response but no change in Emax
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What is an irreversible antagonist?
A substance that binds irreversibly at the same site as the agonist, forming a covalent bond or binding tightly
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What effect does an irreversible antagonist have on agonist dose/response curves?
Downward shift due to decreased maximal response to agonists so Emax is lower
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What happens to a membrane receptor once it's inactivated by an irreversible antagonist?
antagonist binds, signalling (or lack of), internalisation, receptors move into cell and fuse with lysosomes, receptor degradation, recycled
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What is an allosteric antagonist?
A substance that binds irreversibly at a different site to the agonist and decreases agonist affinity by inducing inhibitory protein conformation
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What is a channel blocker?
A substance that binds inside the channel ('plug') and prevents ion passage which tends to be increased by receptor activation (eg. local anaesthetics)
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What is a 'Physiological' antagonist?
A substance that antagonises the physiological effect of some agonists
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What is desensitisation?
A reduction in agonist response due to prolonged or repeated exposure to the agonist

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