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Decks in this class (31)

Lecture 1: Intro to Pharmacology
How do drugs exert their effects,
What is pharmacodynamics,
What is pharmacokinetics
23  cards
Lecture 2: How Drugs Bind to their Targets
What are modes of signal transmis...,
How can a drug get to intracellul...,
What properties must the drugs th...
64  cards
Lecture 3: How Drugs Bind to their Targets II
What is agonism,
What does the question of whether...,
What is potency
59  cards
Lecture 4: How Drugs are Eliminated (Pharmacokinetics)
What are the main categories of p...,
Why do the effects of a drug wear...,
What are the characteristics of a...
78  cards
Lecture 5: Does This Drug Really Work?
What occurs during phase i of dru...,
What occurs during phase ii of dr...,
What occurs during phase iii
43  cards
Lecture 6: Analgesics
W,
What are drugs that block sensation,
What are drugs that block pain
98  cards
Lecture 7: OTC Cough and Cold
What do pharmacological mechanism...,
What four types of ingredients do...,
What are otc cough and cold medic...
52  cards
Lecture 8: OTC Allergy and Insomnia
What is the difference between fi...,
What are allergies,
What can allergies include
77  cards
Lecture 9: OTC Digestives
How does histamine affect airways...,
What receptor g receptor is hista...,
What does histamine being gq link...
68  cards
Lecture 10: Drugs to Treat High BP
What is blood pressure generated by,
What is systolic pressure,
What is increased blood pressure ...
51  cards
Lecture 10: Drugs to Treat High BP II
What are the three types of adren...,
What are the effects when an agon...,
What are the effects when an anta...
59  cards
Lecture 11: Drugs used to treat Atherosclerosis and Dyslipidemias
What are the three lipoprotein co...,
What are lipoproteins,
What is considered the good chole...
34  cards
Lecture 12: Drugs used to treat Psychosis
What does psychotic disorders mean,
What is psychosis,
What are the three types of sympt...
103  cards
Lecture 13: Alcohol
What is the functional group that...,
What are the characteristics of e...,
What is beer made from
53  cards
Lecture 14: Depression
Which system in the brain control...,
Which system in the brain control...,
What three elements of behavior d...
54  cards
Lecture 15: Drugs used to Treat Seizure Disorders
What are seizures,
What is epilepsy,
What does it mean for epilepsy to...
83  cards
Lecture 17: Cannabis
What is cannabis,
What are the most studied bioacti...,
What are cannabinoids
55  cards
Lecture 18: Opioids
What is opium,
What are opiates,
What is an opioid
71  cards
Lecture 19: Opioids II
What drugs are used to manage sev...,
Why are opioids not the best to t...,
Why are opioids such good drugs a...
53  cards
Lecture 20: Hallucinogens
What is a hallucinogen,
Which systems do most hallucinoge...,
What areas do hallucinogens change
53  cards
Lecture 22: Migraines
What are migraines characterized by,
What is the aura in migraines tho...,
What is cortical spreading depres...
73  cards
Lecture 23: Antibiotics
What are antibiotics,
What can bacteria be classified by,
What are the four shapes of bacteria
57  cards
Lecture 25: Antivirals
What are viruses,
What does it mean to be an obliga...,
What do viruses exist as when not...
83  cards
Lecture 26: Cancer Chemotherapy
What is the leading cause of deat...,
What is cancer characterized by,
What is cancer caused by
90  cards
Lecture 27: Adrenocorticosteroids
What are the two main parts of th...,
What are the three parts of the c...,
Which hormone does the adrenal me...
92  cards
Lecture 28: Immunopharmacology
What are the three main applicati...,
What is graft versus host disease,
What occurs in graft versus host ...
71  cards
Lecture 29: Thyroid Gland Pharmacology
What classes does the thyroid gla...,
What is the most active thyroid h...,
What causes the release of tsh fr...
70  cards
Lecture 30: Bone Minerals
What is the principal reservoir f...,
Why is regulation of calcium and ...,
What are the major targets of ca2...
62  cards
Lecture 31: Drug Interactions
Where are drug interactions usual...,
What does information about the p...,
What kind of drugs are most susce...
43  cards
Lecture 32: Pharmacogenomics
What number cause of death are adrs,
What 5 things contribute to diffe...,
How can ethnicity and drugs affec...
35  cards
Lecture 33: CRISPR and Gene Editing Techniques
What is genome editing,
What can genome editing be used for,
What is genomics
40  cards

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