Week 3 Part 1 Flashcards
(113 cards)
What are ideal drug like properties?
- Potency and selectivity vs. Target
- Dissolution and permeation through the GI tract
- Metabolic stability - good oral bioavailability and duration of action
- Absence/non-impact of dose/time dependent pk effects
- Able to be co-prescribed without complicated dosage adjustments
Cimetidine
First selective H2 Antagonist
Good compound - it worked
It had potent selectivity vs target
Oral drug - dissolution of permeation through the GIT
It has metabolic stability
Good oral bioavailability and duration of action
High dose significant risk of drug dose interaction
What is very important in pharmacokinetics?
Duration of action
What is ideal for a drug?
Short acting drug with anaesthetics properties
What do people vary in?
- Appearance and philosophy
- Physiology and biochemistry
- Occupations and habits
- Genetics - genotype vs phenotype
What does source of variability start of with?
- Compliance and comprehension
Give an example of source of variability
- Drug in tablet
- Drug in tablet in gut
- Drug in gut
- Drug in blood
- Drug in tissues
- Drug at receptor
What is source of variability
- Compliance/comprehension
- Release
- Absorption
- Distribution
What is a desired response?
Drug at receptor
Therapy
What does ADME stand for?
- Absorption
- Distribution
- Metabolism
- Elimination
What is Absorption?
All processes from the site of administration to the site of measurement
What is Distribution?
The reversible transfer of drug between the site of measurement and other sites within the body
What is metabolism?
The irreversible loss of drug from the body by biochemical conversion
Elimination
The irreversible loss of drug from the site of measurement within the body
What is excretion?
The irreversible loss of drug from the body
What is disposition
Elimination (clearance) + distribution
What is the ADME process?
Take drug orally
Absorbed across the gut wall
The gut is efficient with metabolism and drug transporters
It then hits the liver
What are the ADME questions?
- Is the drug absorbed by mouth?
- Which organs are exposed to the drug?
- How long does the drug stay in the body?
- How is the drug removed from the body?
- What factors influence drug handling?
- What is the appropriate route of administration?
- How should the drug be formulated?
- What are the appropriate doses and dose regimens?
- Which drug interactions are likely to be important?
How is the drug removed from the body?
Unchanged
Metabolites
What factors influence drug handling?
Physiological
Pathological
Pharmaceutical
Pharmacological
What are the appropriate doses and dose regimens?
- Animal studies (pharmacology and toxicology)
2. Patients
What is pharmacokinetics?
Forcing function behind pharmacodynamics
Seeks to provide a mathematical basis for the description of the time course of drugs (and their metabolites) in the body
Refers to the quantitiative study of the process of ADME
What is the purpose of pharmacokinetic (PK)?
Get a handle on where you think your therapeutic index/ window is
Maximum tolerated conc (MTC) vs a minimum effective conc (MEC)
What are the pharmacokinetic terms?
C-Max —> max conc
T-Max —> time at which max conc occurs
Half life (mean residence time (MRT)) - how often of the dosing regimen
Clearance and absorption - what happens between site of administration and blood sample