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Drug

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Substance used in treatment, diagnosis, prevention, or mitigation of disease
- endogenous or xenobiotic

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Pharmacology

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Science dealing with the properties of drugs and their effects on living systems
- properties and reactions of drugs especially with relation to their therapeutic value

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Pharmacy

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Separate and complementary health-care profession concerned with collection, preparation, standardization, and dispensing of drugs
- art of preparing, preserving, compounding, and dispensing drugs

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Clinical pharmacology

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Branch of pharmacology dealing with effectiveness and safety of drugs in the clinical setting

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Dose

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Amount of drug given at one time

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What 4 components are needed to write a dosage?

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Amount of drug given (dose), route of administration, interval between doses, and duration of therapy

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Potency

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Measurement of biological activity

  • amount of drug needed to achieve a specified biological effect
  • is not medically significant
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Efficacy

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Ability of a drug to control or cure and illness

  • maximal response that can be elicited by a drug
  • effectiveness
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Vehicle

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Carrier or inert medium used as a solvent (or diluent) in which the medicinally active agent is formulated and or administered

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Excipients and binders

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Inert substances added to a formulation in order to provide suitable consistency to the dosage form
- ex: binder, matrix, base or diluent in pills, tablets, creams, etc

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What is the difference between excipients and binders?

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  • excipient: prevents gumming of machinery that makes the tablet
  • binder: helps hold the tablet together
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Most of the actual mass of a tablet is _____

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Inert

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ADME

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Disposition of a drug as described by its absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion

  • qualitative measure
  • ex: pharmacokinetics
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Pharmacokinetics

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Mathematical description of drug disposition in the body

  • ex: half life, volume of distribution
  • relates drug dose to plasma concentration
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Pharmacodynamics

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Relates drug concentration to effect

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Tolerance

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Responsiveness decreases with continued drug administration

- down regulation of receptors

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Tachyphylaxis

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Rapid development of tolerance

- down regulation of receptors

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Trade name

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Proper noun identifying a company’s version of that drug

- is always capitalized!

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Official name

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Nonproprietary, referred to as the generic name

- not capitalized

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Type A adverse reaction

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Adverse event that can be anticipated based on the known mechanism of the drug
- is usually dose dependent

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Type B adverse reaction

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Adverse event that is idiosyncratic, unpredictable, and often nondose-dependent

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Therapeutic index

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Margin of safety, qualitative description

  • difference between effective dose and lethal dose
  • want a greater difference, or a high therapeutic index
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Extra label drug use

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Use of a drug in a species, route, dosage, or indication other than indicated on the label
- allowed only by veterinarians and the guidelines of the Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act

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Clinical trial

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Study to establish the safety and efficacy of a drug compared to a placebo or an established treatment

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Placebo
Substance or treatment with no active therapeutic effect given to deceive the recipient into thinking that it is an active treatment - accounts for 50% of benefit, so you must have a placebo in a clinical trial as a control
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Placebo effect
A beneficial health outcome resulting from a person's anticipation that an intervention will help them - commonly seen in owners
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Solution
Homogenous mixtures formed by the mixing of a solid, liquid, or gaseous substance (solute) with a liquid (solvent) - drug is actually dissolved completely - can go IV or other routes
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Suspension
Colloids with a liquid continuous phase and solid dispersed phase - water-insoluble drugs may be given as suspensions - do not need to be mixed prior to use - NEVER give IV!!
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Emulsion
Colloids of 2 immiscible liquids where either phase may be either fatty or aqueous - lipid-in-water emulsions are usually liquid - water-in-lipid emulsions are creams - some can go IV, some can't - ex: propofol - add emulsions to prevent separation of oil and water
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Agonist
Substance binding to a receptor that induces a physiologic action - aka: pressor, mimetic
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Antagonist
Substance binding to a receptor that blocks the action of an agonist - alters tone, does not cause an effect in itself - aka: blocker, lytic
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Are there endogenous antagonists?
No, are always referring to a drug given exogenously
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Physiologic antagonist
Occurs when drugs are antagonistic because of opposing effects at different receptors - both are agonists, but they are opposing in action - ex: allergic reactions and histamine release
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Competitive antagonists
Constant release and reattachment of both agonist and antagonist - magnitude of the effect is dependent on the amount of drug present and the affinity constant (rate of binding and release) of that drug for the receptor
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Noncompetitive antagonists
Permanently bind to the receptor - new receptor must be created - rare
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Dose-response curve
A competitive antagonist can be overcome by adding more agonist - lower dose: no response - max dose: all receptors are occupied, so giving more drug will have no effect
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Peak concentration
Highest concentration in the drug measured after it is administered before administration of a second dose
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Trough concentration
Lowest concentration in the drug measured after it is administered
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LD50
Lethal dose at 50% of animals
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ED50
Effective dose at 50% of animals
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Certain safety factor
Alternative to the therapeutic index as an index of safety | - LD1/ED99
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Minimum effective concentration
Lowest concentration that produces a desired effect | - aka: lowest observed (adverse) effect level (LOEL)
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Maximum nontoxic dose
MNTD, highest dose that does not produce toxicity | - no observed (adverse) effect level (NOEL)
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Maximum nontoxic concentration
Highest concentration that does not produce toxicity
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Partial agonist
Pure agonist blocked | - does not stimulate receptor maximally
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Trademark symbols
- R: registered trademark, company has exclusive legal right to use trademark - TM: unregistered trademark, limited legal status but notifies public the company considers this name as their property
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What is the purpose of an injectable formulation?
To change the water solubility of a drug and its absorption characteristics
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What is the speed of onset for a drug with receptors located in the nucleus?
Slow or delayed onset (hours) due to creation of regulatory proteins - ex: steroids
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The magnitude of the effect of a drug is dependent on what 2 properties?
The amount of the drug present and the affinity constant (rate of binding and release) of that drug for the receptor - the longer it attaches, the longer the effect - is true for competitive antagonists
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Additive
Summation of effects of 2 drugs | - ex: use one drug to treat gram pos and one to treat gram neg bacteria
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Synergistic
2+2=5 - ex: a combo drug used as an antibiotic that is used to treat bacteria sensitive to the combo drug but resistant to each individual drug
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Antagonistic combo drug
One drug antagonizes the action of the other
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Assuming a “normal distribution”, state the percentage of that population that would be expected to be encompassed by 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations from the mean response
1 - 68.2% 2- 95.4% 3 - 99.7%
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Explain why the concentration of a drug might be stated in “units per ml” rather than “mg per ml”
A unit is a measurement of biological activity (usually hormones, heparin, etc) - most liquids are measured in mg/ml

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