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What is drug metabolism?

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Removal of lipid soluble drug molecules to prevent reabsorption by kidneys

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How is drug metabolism achieved?

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Converting drugs into water soluble molecules

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Where does drug metabolism take place?

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Mostly in liver, but also in plasma, long and intestinal epithelium

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What is excretion?

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Removal of drugs/ metabolites from the body

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Where are drugs excreted (8)?

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Mostly in urine, but also bile, faeces, sweat, tears, saliva, exhaled air and milk (more lipid soluble drugs)

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What is drug clearance?

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The volume of plasma cleared of drug per unit time

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What is the formula of clearance for a drug that is removed by liver metabolism and kidney excretion?

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Plasma clearance = hepatic clearance + renal clearance

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What does it mean if a drug has a high plasma clearance?

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The body’s more capable of removing it (and usually has a smaller half life too)

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What determines the amount of drug available at the site of action?

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Metabolism and plasma clearance

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What affects the time between doses?

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Time taken for a drug to reach steady state levels

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What safety issues are there with drugs?

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Metabolism produces new chemical entities that may have their own effects
Components of racemic molecules handled differently

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What is a prodrug?

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Drugs that are activated by metabolism

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Give an example of a prodrug, with the product and the facilitating enzyme

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Enalapril -> enalaprilat by esterases

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When does drug removal begin?

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Immediately

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What do most drugs undergo to increase excretion?

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Metabolism

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What happens if theres a loss of or reduced biological activity when a drug is metabolised?

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Increase polarity/ less receptor binding

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Give an example of a drug that is eliminated without being metabolised

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Digoxin

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Why would you use prodrugs(4)?

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better pharmacokinetic profile
orally available
More Readily absorbed
Better bioavailability

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What are the two phases of drug metabolism?

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Phase 1 and 2

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What does phase 1 of drug metabolism include?

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Introduces chemically reactive groups

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What does phase 2 of drug metabolism include?

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Increases water solubility of drug for excretion

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What processes happen in phase 1 of drug metabolism?

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  • oxidation in the liver

- addition of oxygen molecules to carbon, nitrogen, sulfur molecules in drug structure

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What is phase 1 of drug metabolism carried out by?

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Cytochrome P450 enzymes

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What do cytochrome P450 enzymes do?

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Binds molecular oxygen to the drug

The other oxygen is reduced to water

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What happens in phase 2 of drug metabolism?
Adds the phase 1 product to an endogenous substance through the production of stable covalent bonds
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Give an example of the phase 2 in drug metabolism
Glucuronidatoin
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What is glucuronidation?
Phase 2 reaction with glucose
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What is the exception to the phase 1/2 scheme?
Paracetamol
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Through which phase is paracetamol more readily metabolised?
Phase 2
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What are the two phase 2 reactions that paracetamol could undergo?
Glucuronidation | Sulfate conjunction
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What is glucuronidation?
The addition of a glucose molecule
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When do phase 2 reactions not happen on paracetamol?
When you run out of glucose, sulfate and enzymes
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What happens if the phase 2 enzymes in paracetamol metabolism are saturated?
A phase 1 reaction happens - cytochrome p450
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What does paracetamol and cytochrome p450 make?
Quinone
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What can make quinone safe and water soluble?
Glutathione
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What does the amount excreted through the glomerulus depend on?
The levels of drug bound to plasma proteins
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What sized molecules does glomerulus filtration filter?
<20kDa
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How does reabsorption happen in the kidneys?
- molecules pass through tubules, becoming more concentrated. - this creates a large conc grad for reabsorption
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Why do drugs need to be water soluble?
To allow them to be reabsorbed
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How does tubular secretion work?
- Acid/base molecule carries transposing molecules into tubular fluids - lower levels of unbound drug in plasma, pushing reaction for plasma proteins to release more free drug for secretion by carriers
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Give the formula for excretion that includes filtration, secretion and reabsorption
Excretion= filtration - reabsorption + secretion
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What is renal clearance?
The volume of plasma cleared of drug per unit time in one pass through the kidney
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Where does the drug go once it is cleared from the blood?
Urine
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What does decreased renal elimination lead to?
Increased plasma half life
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What are the four factors that affect drug metabolism and excretion?
Age, genetics, drug metabolising enzymes and disease
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How does age affect drug metabolism and excretion?
- Cytochrome P450 activity and GFR reduced in neonates/ the elderly - increased to fat content in elderly
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How does genetics affect drug metabolism and excretion?
45% in Europe and USA as a pose to 80-90% in Asians fast acetylators 1/3000 slow metabolism by pseudocholinesterase
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How do drug metabolising enzymes affect drug metabolism and excretion?
Can be induced or inhibited by other drugs or lifestyle factors Eg taken with a specific food/ at a certain time of day
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How does disease affect drug metabolism and excretion?
Liver disease impairs drug metabolism- drug toxicity Renal disease may alter pharmacokinetics
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Why would you need to monitor drug concentrations (7)?
- drugs that have a narrow therapeutic index - drugs that relate well to either theraputic effect or toxic effect, or both - to individualise therapy - to confirm adherence of therapy - to diagnose toxicity - to determine the presence of other drugs before starting therapy - as part of post marketing surveillance to drug-drug interaction

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