Introduction To Pharmaceutics

Question 0

Animal drugs

Answer 0

Insulin (pig, cow)
Ex. Premarin - comes from urine of pregnant mares

Growth hormone (human)
     Ex. Cadavers

Question 1

Drug

Answer 1

A chemical substance that interacts with a part of the body to alter an existing physiological or biochemical process, either good or bad.

Question 2

Plant drugs

Answer 2

Digoxin (digitalis)
- heart issues

Morphine

Question 3

Inorganic drugs

Answer 3

-made from minerals

Arsenic mercury
- has a bad effect

Lithium
Ex. Zinc, Magnesia

Question 4

Synthetic drugs

Answer 4

• made in a lab
• pure and controlled

Propranolol (chemical)
Penicillin (biological)
Human insulin (biotechnology)

Question 5

Alkaloids

Answer 5

Nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds that are bitter and very potent

Question 6

Glycosides

Answer 6

Compounds that are an active drug hooked through a sugar moiety

Non-sugar part is active drug

Question 7

Premarin

Answer 7

Used as insulin

Comes from the urine of pregnant mares

Question 8

Medicine

Answer 8

Still has effects on the body, like a drug, but it is packaged in a therapeutic nature to help cure disease; a packaged, finished dosage form

Question 9

Pharmaceutical sciences

Answer 9

Group of interdisciplinary areas of study involved with the design, action, delivery, disposition, and use of drugs; turns drugs into viable medicines
Ex. Pharmacology, toxicology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacotherapy, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics

Question 10

Pharmacology

Answer 10

The science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs

Question 11

Toxicology

Answer 11

The science dealing with the effects, antidotes, detection, etc. , of poisons

Question 12

Medicinal chemistry

Answer 12

The science of designing, synthesizing, and developing pharmaceutical drugs

Question 13

Pharmacotherapy

Answer 13

The treatment of disease through the administration of drugs (what we are using the drug for in the patient)

Question 14

Pharmacokinetics

Answer 14

Studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body through ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination or excretion)

how that chemical drug moves throughout the body

Question 15

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 15

Deals with the course of action, effect, and breakdown of drugs within the body (consequence of pharmacokinetics)

Question 16

Pharmaceutics

Answer 16

The science that deals with the dosage forms design

Question 17

Ideal drug delivery system

Answer 17

• controlled delivery rates (flexible programming)
• constant delivery rates (precise programming)
• not highly sensitive
• physiochemical principles
• capable of high drug order dispersion (the ultimate is molecular in scale)
• drug stability
• controlling mechanism adds little mass to dosage form
• applicable to a wide range and variety if drugs

Question 18

Dosage form

Answer 18

The final formulation of the drug in combination with one or more non-medicinal agents (known as excipients) that together serve a specialized pharmaceutical function