QUIZLET Unit 1 - Intro to Pharmacology (pom75) Flashcards
pom75
body of knowledge concerned with the action of chemicals on biologic systems, especially by binding to regulatory molecules (receptors) and activating or inhibiting normal body processes.
Pharmacology
Body of knowledge where pharmacology originated
Botany
True or False
Drugs can either activate or inhibit a body process.
True
True or False
With the advancement of technology, drug production has greatly evolved from natural (plant-based) to a lot of synthetic products.
True
Improperly used drugs result to what type of effect?
Toxic effects
Emphasizes the therapeutic or “good effects” of drugs
Pharmacology
Effect of the drug to the body
Pharmacodynamics
Focuses on the adverse effects of drugs
Toxicology
Area of pharmacology concerned with the use of chemicals in the prevention (vitamins or vaccines), diagnosis (some drugs can differentiate disease entities, such as naproxen test), and treatment of disease, especially in humans.
Medical Pharmacology
Effect of body on the drugs
How the body manages the drug, if it will be excreted or absorbed
Pharmacokinetics
True or False?
The drug could reach its target receptors, whether that is its intended receptor (therapeutic effects) or the unintended.
True
Specific molecule in the biologic system that plays a regulatory role
Receptor
Area of knowledge that focuses on what happens when the drug is excreted from our body or is thrown into the environment.
Environmental Pharmacology
Finds the exact mechanism of action of drugs and identifies certain receptors
Pharmacogenomics
Area of pharmacology concerned with the undesirable effects of chemicals on biologic systems
Toxicology
Any substance that brings about a change in biologic
function through chemical actions.
Drug
Why individuals react differently with the same drug
Pharmacogenetics
Molecular weight (MW) of most drugs
Between 100-1000
Chemical substances that are completely foreign, meaning there is no similar composition of this specific chemical composition within our body
Not synthesized by the body
Xenobiotics
Drugs with 100 MW
For selective binding
Reason: It has a smaller receptor; hence, larger particles will not readily attach to it.
T/F
Drugs are given at a site proximal from the intended site of action, but it eventually reaches their intended site of action.
False
distant from the intended site of action dapat
Drugs with 1,000 MW
For traversing to different barriers of the bofy
Drugs with >1,000 MW are given where?
Directly at the site of action
Affects the movement of drugs from one compartment to another.
Drug size and molecular weight