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What is drug pharmacokinetics?

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How drugs move around the body

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What 4 factors determine drug pharmacokinetics?

ADME

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Absorption

Distribution

Metabolism

Elimination

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In pharmacokinetics, what does absorption refer to?

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Process of movement of an unchanged drug from the site of administration to the systematic circulation

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What is Tmax?

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Time until drug concentration in circulation is at its peak, from when it was administrated

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What is the Cmax?

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Peak concentration of the drug in circulation

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The area under the concentration time graph of a drug in circulation gives what information?

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The amount of drug that has been absorbed and not excreted

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What effect does dosage have on Cmax and Tmax?

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No effect on rate of absorption so no affect on Tmax

Dosage determines Cmax

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What is the therapeutic range?

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Range of concentrations of the drug that will be effective over

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What is bioavailability?

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Amount of drug that reaches circulation

compared to how much was administered

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Which method of administration of a drug has the highest bioavailability?

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Intravenous

100% bioavailability

Bioavailability of other methods compared to IV

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What factors affect bioavailability of a drug?

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Formulation

Ability to pass physiological barriers

Gastrointestinal effects

First pass metabolism

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What is first pass metabolism?

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Drug metabolism, prior to reaching systematic circulation

Liver, gut lumen, gut wall

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What might affect a patients gastrointestinal ability to absorb a drug?

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Gut motility

Food they’ve eaten

Illness

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Why is it important that oral drugs must be in an un-ionised state in the stomach?

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So they can pass through the plasma membrane of cells lining the stomach

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What is the effect of ion trapping?

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Drugs trapped in cells they are trying to diffuse through

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“An acidic drug will be more concentrated in the compartment with a ____ pH due to ion trapping”

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High (alkaline)

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What is the lipid-water partition coefficient?

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Ability for a drug to diffuse across a lipid barrier

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If a drug is easily metabolised by the body, what methods of administration are suitable to use?

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IV

Subcutaneous /Intra-muscular

Sublingual/buccal (under tongue)

Rectal

Transdermal

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What effect does plasma protein binding have on drug distribution?

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When a drug is bound to in the blood plasma, it can not be diffuse out ∴ can not be distributed to other sites in the body

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What are the main proteins that bind to drugs in the plasma?

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Albumin

alpha1-glycoprotein

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What factors affect the amount of drug that is bound to by proteins? (5)

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Renal failure

Hypoalbuminaemia

Pregnancy

Saturability of binding

Other drugs

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Describe the drug distribution of a 95% protein bound drug, and how this would be affected by a 5% decrease in the amount of protein binding.

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Drug distribution is quite low, only 5% isn’t bound to ∴ 95% remains in blood

5% decrease means a 100% increase in the amount of drug that is biologically available and leaves the circulation

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What is the apparent volume of distribution?

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The volume of plasma that would be necessary to account for the total amount of drug in a patient’s body, at the same concentration as found in the plasma

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If a patient is given 1000mg of a drug, and the plasma drug concentration found in a plasma sample is 50mg/L, what is the apparent volume of distribution?

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1000/50 = 20L

20L

(should be expressed as L/kg)

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What does a high apparent volume of distribution value mean?
High Vd ∴ higher the ability for the drug to diffuse out and through membranes
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What apparent volume of distribution value would a lipid soluble drug have and why?
High Lipid soluble ∴ diffuses easily across membranes
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What is the 'clearance' of a drug?
Theoretical volume from which a drug is removed over a period of time It is a measure of the rate of elimination ml/min
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The clearance rate is basically a combination of two clearing 'systems', what are they, and what affects each?
Renal - urine concentration and flow rate Hepatic - billiary secretion and metabolism rate
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What is the half life of a drug?
Time taken for concentration in the blood to drop to 50% of it's original value
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What is half life proportional and inversely proportional to?
Proportional to A. Volume of distribution Inversely proportional to clearance rate
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As a rule of thumb, how many half lives does it take for a drug to (pretty much) be removed from the system?
5 half lives
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Pathologies can often prolong the half life of a drug. What are the problems with this?
Reduction in clearance / large VOD ∴ abnormally high amount of drug remains in the body ∴ toxicity
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Define the elimination of a drug .
Removal of the active drug, and it's metabollites from the body Governed by the metabolism and excretion of the drug
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Where does metabolism usually take place?
Liver
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What organ is mainly responsible for excretion of a drug? | not bladder
Kidneys Biliary system/gut, lung and milk are also involved with excretion
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What are the 3 mechanisms that affect excretion rate, at the kidneys?
Glomerular filtration - most important Passive tubular reabsorption Active tubular excretion
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Which excretion system is responsible for eliminating protein bound cationic and anionic drugs?
Active tubular secretion
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What happens with passive tubular re-absorption?
Drugs move from renal tubule back into circulation Down concentration gradient (passively) Only un-ionised drugs can do this
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Sum up the stages entero-hepatic circulation, of a drug.
Intestine to blood Blood to liver Liver to bile Bile to intestine (will repeat unless the drug is conjugated)
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Describe what conjugation of a drug is.
Metabolism in liver leads to conjugation When secreted into bile, then into intestine, the drug is not absorbed again
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If the liver is damaged, and conjugation does not take place effectively, how could this cause toxicity?
No conjugation ∴ drug re-absorbed more Hepatic elimination rate decreases Drug build up Toxicity
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True or false Most excretion takes place in the kidneys
True
43
Define drug metabolism
The biochemical modification of pharmaceutical substances by living organisms
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What type of organic molecule is key in drug metabolism?
Enzymes
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Why must lipid-soluble substances be converted to water-soluble substances by the body?
So they can be excreted Lipid soluble substances would be constantly re-uptook and pass back into blood circulation
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What is the purpose of metabolism of drugs?
Make them more water-soluble, so they can be excreted Deactivate the compounds (except from prodrugs which are activated by metabolism)
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What potential problem is associated with metabolism of drugs?
Production of toxic metabolites - Direct toxicity - Teratogenesis - Carcinogenesis
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What is teratogenesis?
the process by which congenital malformations are produced in an embryo or fetus
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What is carcinogenesis?
the initiation of cancer formation
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What are the 2 phases of drug metabolism?
Inactivation / activation (if prodrug) Conjugation
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What type of reactions can take place in phase 1 metabolism of drugs?
Oxidation Reduction Hydrolysis
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What group of enzymes are important in phase 1 metabolism?
Cytochrome P-450 enzymes These are often called CYP1A2, for example
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What is the effect of Phase 1 metabolism?
Increases polarity of compound and provides an active site for phase 2 metabolism
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In phase 2 metabolism, there is conjugation of the drug. What are the effects of this?
Increase water solubility (for excretion) Usually involves in-activation of the drug (a small number of active metabolites may remain however)
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Chemical groups that are made in phase 1 metabolism, can be added onto the metabollite in phase 2. Give examples of some of these groups.
Glucuronic acid, glutathione, suplhate, acetate
56
List some factors that effect metabolism of drugs.
``` Other drugs/herbals/natural substances Genetics Hepatic blood flow Liver disease Age Sex Ethnicity Pregnancy ```
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What effect can other substances, such as herbal medicines, have on enzymes involved with drug metabolism?
Induction (increased metabolism of drug = less drug effect) Inhibition (drug isn't metabolised effectively = build up of active drug, often toxicity)
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What age category of people are most effective at metabolising drugs?
Adolescents

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