pharmacy vocab from unit 10/11
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- first pass metabolism
- the substantial degradtion of an orally administered drug caused by enzyme metabolism in the liver before the drug reaches the systemic circulation
- enzyme induction
- the increase in hepatic enzyme activity that results in greater metabolism of drugs
- pharmaceutical alternative
- drug productthat contain the same active ingredient but not necessarily in the same salt form amount or dosage form
- enzyme inhibition
- the decrease in hepatic enzyme activity that result in reduced metabolism of drugs
- enzyme induction
- a complex protein that catalyzes chemical reaction
- therapeutic equivalent
- pharemaceutical equivalents that produce the same effects in patients
- pharamaceutical equivalent
- drug products that contain identical amounts of the same active ingredient in the same dosage form
- adverse effect
- an unintended side effet of a mediaction that is negative or in some way injurious to a patients health
- enterohepatic cycling
- the transfer of drugs and their metabolites from the liver to the bile in the gallbladder, then into the intestine and the back into circulation
- metabolite
- the substance resulting from the body,s transformatin of an adminitered drug