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Principles of Pharmacology Flashcards

1
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What is the study of drugs?

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pharmacology

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What is the study of drugs in human?

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clinical pharmacology

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What is pharmacokinetics?

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what the body does to drug before it gets to site of action (what happens to the drug)

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What is pharmacodynamics?

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what the drug does to the body when it gets to site of action (what happens to the body) - physical response

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What is the easiest place to measure what is going on with a drug?

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bloodstream

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What is the movement of a drug from the site of administration into plasma (time we take medication until it gets to blood stream)

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absorption

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What is the process of drug movement throughout the body?

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distribution

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What is the biotransformation of a chemical (a drug) into another chemical (metabolite)? (drug is changing by an enzyme system)

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metabolism

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What is the irreversible loss of a drug (or metabolites)?

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excretion, or elimination

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What is the acronym that describes pharmacokinetics and what does it stand for?

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ADME
A: absorption
D: distribution
M: metabolism
E: excretion or elimination

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What does absorption require?

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crossing a biological barrier

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Absorption, and therefore bioavailability, is determined by what factors?

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  • drug characteristics (weight, solubility)
  • patient factors (muscle mass, renal and liver function, gut function)
  • ability to cross membranes
    **passive diffusion
    **facilitated diffusion
    **active transport
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What describes drugs moving between “compartments” such as bloodstream, fat, muscle, etc?

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distribution

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What are some physical factors that determine the rate and extend of distribution?

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  • cardiac output
  • regional blood flow
  • capillary permeability (inflammation, lesions)
  • tissue volume
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If a patient has low cardiac output, describe the quickness of medication travel throughout the body?

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slow, low travel of medications

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Areas of less blood flow may receive what?

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not as much drug

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17
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What describes how much drug we can get into a space?

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tissue volume

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Movement of dug between compartments is determined by what factors?

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  • drug characteristics (weight, solubility)
  • membrane permeability
  • binding
    **plasma protein binding
    **tissue binding
    **fat storage
    **bone uptake
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The body uses what to help prevent substances from getting into certain areas to protect it from substantial harm?

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membrane permeability

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What are different barriers in the body that drugs would need to cross?

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  • blood-brain barrier (protect brain)
  • blood-placental barrier (protect fetus)
  • blood-testes barrier
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Why is membrane permeability an important concept to consider when treating infectious illnesses?

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  • just because drug is effective against a specific organism does not mean it will be able to reach the site of infection
  • presence of inflammation can increase permeability of a normally impermeable membrane allowing drug to penetrate (meningitis)
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When you have inflammation of the meninges, what increases, and what decreases?

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permeability increases, protection decreases

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What is the issue with plasma protein binding?

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drugs bind to proteins instead of the receptors to induce a response, so it becomes stuck to the protein and cannot become “free” to bind to its site of action

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What is a saturable system due to there being only so many binding sites so competition can occur?

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plasma protein binding

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If two highly bound drugs are given together, what can happen?

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one may displace the other resulting in toxicity (due to more drug in blood)

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Competition between drugs with the same site of action is only clinically relevant when?

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when the drugs are more than 90% protein bound

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Albumin is the primary circulating protein that binds what?

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acidic drugs

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28
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alpha1-acid glycoproteins bind what?

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basic drugs

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Why do you need to watch for disease states, such as dementia, where albumin levels are decreased?

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  • albumin levels decrease with age
  • decrease in levels may lead to greater drug effects in the elderly - drug toxicity
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What describes when drugs may concentrate in tissues serving as a reservoir that slowly releases drug over time?

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tissue binding

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31
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What can tissue binding lead to?

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increased concentration in some tissues which can lead to localized tissue (gentamicin)

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What describes when lipid soluble drugs may be sequestered in adipose tissue such as oral contraceptives moving into fat spaces?

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fat storage

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Why do drugs stay in adipose tissues when they are sequestered there?

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there is poor blood flow to fat

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What can be an issue in obese patients?

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storage of drugs in adipose tissue (fat storage)

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What describes when drugs can be absorbed onto bone crystal surface and continue to leach out over time?

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bone uptake

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36
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What situations can bone uptake of drugs be beneficial in?

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in cases where the drugs incorporation in bone allows for stabilization of bone matrix

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37
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Bone uptake is harmful when considering tetracyclines, lead and radium why?

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Because these things hang out in the bone and can cause damage over time

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38
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An example where a drug is given IV and concentrates in the kidneys and leads to kidney damage is an example of what?

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tissue binding

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What is an imaginary volume of fluid that would be required to contain the amount of drug present in the body at the same concentration as the plasma?

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volume of distribution

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40
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What is Vd?

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volume of distribution

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41
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What is Cpo?

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plasma concentration at time it enters bdoy

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42
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How do you find volume of distribution?

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amount of drug in body (dose) divided by plasma concentration (Cpo)

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What is the underlying assumption of volume of distribution?

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that there is a uniform distribution throughout the body, but we know that is not true

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What can calculating Vd tell us?

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what body compartment the drug is distributed in

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45
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Total body water accounts for how much of an adults weight?

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60%

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46
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Intracellular fluid accounts for how much of an adults weight?

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35%

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47
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Extracellular fluid accounts for how much of an adults weight?

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25%

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48
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Interstitial fluid accounts for how much of an adults weight?

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21%

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49
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Plasma accounts for how much of an adults weight?

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4%

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50
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Volume of distribution says we can hold so much fluid, but sometimes we can’t, what does this mean, if Vd is greater than total body weight?

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This means that some of the drug we injected has gone somewhere else, so blood levels have decreased

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What is the pattern of how drugs move through the body compartments?

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plasma/blood -> extracellular -> tissue/fat or intracellular

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52
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What can tell you where the drug goes, so how much is in the blood or out of the blood?

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volume of distribution

53
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How many phases to metabolism are there?

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2:
- phase I
- phase II

54
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What phase of metabolism is cytochrome drive, CYP450, and is found in the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?

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phase I

55
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What phase of metabolism is non-synthetic, so it is not breaking anything down, and includes things such as oxidation, reduction, and hydrolysis?

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phase I

56
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What are the enzymes involved in phase I of metabolism?

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  • 1A2
  • 2B6
  • 2C8
  • 2C9
  • 2D6
  • 2E1
  • 3A4
  • 3A5
57
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What is the most common enzyme in phase I metabolism responsible for over 60% of cytochrome activity (drug breakdown) and is located in the liver and gut as well?

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CYP3A4

58
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What are some reasons as to why phase I metabolism is not the same in all individuals?

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  • age creases phase I reactions by 30% or more
  • some cytochromes may be deficient in certain populations (genetic polymorphisms)
  • some disease states have altered cytochrome functioning
59
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What can be substrates, inducers, and inhibitors?

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drugs

60
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What are metabolized by the system (enzyme works on it)?

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substrate

61
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What increases the activity of the system so metabolizing ability is increased (more of enzyme is activated)?

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inducer

62
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What decreases the activity of the system so there is a decreased ability to metabolize substances (enzyme doesn’t do its function)?

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inhibitor

63
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If inducers of an enzyme are given, what happens?

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more of the drug is going to be destroyed by enzymes, so the effect of the drug will decrease

64
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If inhibitors of an enzyme are given, what happens?

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more of the drug will build up since there aren’t as many enzymes, which can lead to toxicity

65
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What is a prodrug?

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a substance that is put into the body and is inactive until it gets broken down by cytochrome and converted into something else

66
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What may be exploited to transform a prodrug into an active substance?

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cytochrome system

67
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What % of caucasians have 2C19 and 2D6 cytochrome deficiencies?

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respectively:
- 3-5%
- 6-10%

68
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What % of asians have 2C19 and 2D6 cytochrome deficiencies?

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respectively:
- 12-23%
- 1%

69
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What % of african americans have a 2D6 cytochrome deficiency?

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2-5%

70
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If you have polymorphisms, are older, or are taking an inhibitor, what may be useless?

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prodrugs because enzyme won’t be able to break it down so drug will remain in its inactive state

71
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What phase of metabolism includes synthetic reactions and create more polar compounds allowing for excretion?

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phase II

72
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What occurs in phase II metabolism where endogenous chemical groups are attached to drug molecules via covalent bonds?

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conjugation

73
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What are glucuronidation, acetylation, sulfation apart of?

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phase II of metabolism

74
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Where does phase II metabolism occur?

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cytosol

75
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What has no effect of phase II metabolism reactions?

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aging; but newborns cannot readily glucuronidate compounds

76
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What is the most common enzyme deficiency in adults?

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G6PD

77
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What prevents some drugs from being metabolized leading to hemolysis, anemia, and possible jaundice (due to excess hemoglobin destruction)?

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G6PD deficiency

78
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G6PD deficiency has its highest prevalence in what descent?

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African, Asian, and Mediterranean descent

79
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What is slow acetylation and what can it lead to?

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slow to breakdown drugs that are acetylated; can lead to toxicity

80
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What is fast acetylation and what can it lead to?

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drugs acetylated are metabolized too quickly and can lead to therapeutic failure

81
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What describes when drugs taken orally and absorbed from the GI tract into portal vein are delivered directly to the liver where they may be metabolized before entering systemic circulation?

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firs-pass effect

82
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What results in only a fraction of the original dose being available (decreased bioavailability)?

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first-pass effect

83
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Because of phase I effects, older patients are started on what doses?

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lower doses

84
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What is the best indicator to know if someone has a genetic alteration in metabolism rate?

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monitoring patient’s response

85
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What may be metabolized prior to elimination or may be excreted as unchanged drug?

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drugs

86
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What are the primary pathways of elimination of drug?

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  • urine
  • feces
87
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What are some additional pathways of drug elimination?

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  • respiratory
  • breast milk
  • secretions
88
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What are the renal pathways of elimination of drugs?

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  • glomerular filtration
  • tubular secretion
  • tubular reabsorption
89
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What is important in glomerular filtration?

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renal perfusion (blood flow - kidneys need to be receiving blood properly)

90
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In what type of renal elimination occurs when drugs must bind to a carrier and may compete for the carrier impairing secretion and therefore elimination?

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tubular secretion

91
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What type of renal elimination depends on ionization of drug (acidity/basicity) and has the possibility that drugs in urine can be taken back up?

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tubular reabsorption

92
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Acidic drugs are excreted faster in what type of urine?

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alkaline urine

93
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Basic drugs are excreted in what type of urine?

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acidic urine

94
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What happens in biliary/fecal elimination?

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  • some drugs actively secreted into bile
  • reabsorption may occur once in the intestine
95
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What is it called when reabsorption of a drug occurs in the intestines?

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enterohepatic recycling

96
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What odes enterohepatic recycling do to a drug?

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increases the half life of the drug

97
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What is a common process for bile salts?

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enterohepatic recycling

98
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What is one of the most important routes of clearance and is often used to determine drug doses?

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renal clearance

99
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What is an estimate of the GFR (glomerular filtration rate)?

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CrCl

100
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What does glomerular filtration rate tell us?

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how well the glomerulars work/how healthy the kidneys are

101
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Why do we use creatinine to measure glomerular filtration rate?

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because it is not secreted or absorbed

102
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Renal filtration only filters what type of drugs?

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only free drugs; bound drugs cannot do anything and cannot be filtered

103
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Renal reabsorption favors what?

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lipid soluble drugs

104
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What do some drugs utilize to be actively secreted into the urine?

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transporters

105
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What is the primary route of drugs?

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kidneys

106
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What describes the volume of plasma cleared of drug per unit time?

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clearance

107
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How can you determine clearance?

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rate of elimination/concentration

108
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What is used in the calculations of half-life (t1/2) and steady-state (Css)?

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clearance

109
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What is proportionate to volume distribution of drugs?

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clearance

110
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What is important for determining half-life?

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clearance

111
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Where is drug metabolism via enzymes occurring primarily?

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in the liver

112
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What describes as plasma concentration increases, the drug metabolism increases?

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first order kinetics

113
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In what order kinetics is rate proportional to concentration?

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first order kinetics

114
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Most drugs go through what order kinetics?

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first order kinetics

115
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What is there a lower chance of in first order kinetics and why?

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lower chance of overdose because there is a low saturation risk

116
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What is Vmax?

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maximum metabolic activity

117
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What order kinetics has enzymes that can be saturated?

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zero order kinetics

118
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What describes as plasma concentration increases, drug metabolism stays constant?

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zero order kinetics

119
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What is the problem with zero order kinetics?

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more drug is entering the system than being metabolized, can lead to toxicity

120
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In what order kinetics is rate independent of concentration?

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zero order kinetics

121
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Constant rate of elimination is related to?

A

zero order kinetics

122
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In zero order elimination, what happens to half-life as concentration decreases?

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half-life decreases

123
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In first order elimination, what happens to half-life as concentration decreases?

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half-life remains constant

124
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What is t1/2?

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time to metabolize half of the drug

125
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Knowing rate of elimination can help with what?

A

dosing

126
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How many half-lives of a drug are associated with 90% of the drug being gone?

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3.3 half-lives

127
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In what order eliminations can enzymes metabolize drug more efficiently?

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first order elimination

128
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What order elimination takes longer?

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zero order elimination

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