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01 - General principles of pharmacology
Pharmacology is the study of both,
Pharmocodynamics is effect of,
Pharmocodynamics considers both 2
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02 - Drug receptor interactions (pharmacodynamics)
Agonists,
Antagonists,
Benzodiazepines bind to the allos...
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03 - Agonists and Dose Response Curves (pharmacodynamics)
Dose response curves are plotted ...,
Quantal dose response curves look at,
Graded dose response curves look at
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04 - Antagonists and Dose Response Curves (pharmacodynamics)
Pure antagonists dont cause any,
3 classes of antagonist,
Chelating agents are examples of ...
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05 - Drug absorption & distribution
Adme stands for,
Absorption is the tranfer of an,
In order to be absorbed a drug wi...
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06 - Drug distribution & elimination
Enterohepatic recirculation can e...,
Describe the stages of enterohepa...,
The ability of a drug to bind to ...
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07 - Drug elimination
Drugs are eliminated by being met...,
3 phases of drug metabolism,
During metabolism drugs may be mo...
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08 - General principles of drug action
In the one compartment model drug...,
Most drugs follow,
In first order kinetics the rate ...
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09 - Neurone signalling
Neurones communicate via,
Neurone signalling is fast and ca...,
Neurones are important to pharmac...
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10 - Drugs And The Nervous System
The nervous system allows an orga...,
The peripheral nervous system pns...,
Efferent output system of pns can...
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11 - Drugs & the Peripheral Nervous System
The peripheral nervous system pns...,
The efferent outbound systems of ...,
The autonomic nervous system invo...
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11 - Noradrenaline
Noradrenaline biochemistrydescrib...,
Name the two types of noradrenerg...,
Noradrenaline is metabolised in t...
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12 - Asthma Drugs
Outline the pathology of asthma,
The disease process of asthma com...,
In the immediate phase allergen s...
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13 - Local Anaesthetics
Anaesthetics are drugs that,
Anaesthetics are divided into two...,
Analgesics are drugs that
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14 - Parkinson's Disease & Parkinsonism
List the symptoms of parkinsons d...,
Post mortem neuropathology reveal...,
Degeneration of dopaminergic neur...
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15 - Antidepressants
The underlying pathology of depre...,
The synthesis of noradrenaline is...,
Outline the product at each step ...
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16 - Drugs of Abuse
Measures of dependence 5,
Drug addiction is classified unde...,
Probability of drug abuse peaks a...
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17-18 - Endocrine System & Female Contraception
The endocrine system in organised...,
The endocrine system differs from...,
The two classes of hormone are
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19 - Inflammation & Anti-Inflammatories
Macrophages release what in respo...,
Cytokines and chemokines released...,
After vascular permeability has i...
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20 - Selective Toxicity & Antibiotics
The aim of a selectively toxic an...,
Common targets of selective toxic...,
State 4 ways to improve selectivity
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22 - Chemotherapy
The aim of cancer chemotherapy is...,
Cancer arises from an imbalance b...,
Metastases
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23 - Antiprotozoals & Malaria
Distributional selectivity,
Distributional selectivity can be...,
4 types of protozoal infections
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25-26 - Toxicity & Adverse Drug Reactions
Toxicology is the study of the no...,
Biochemical toxicology studies in...,
Ld50a is useful as it provides in...
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