Pharmacology- Chapter 1
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- What are 3 major properties of and ideal drug
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1)Effectiveness
2) Safety- won't produce harmful effects
3) Selectivity- elicits only response which given - What are other properties of an ideal drug
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1) Reversible action
2) Predictability
3) Ease of administration
4) No drug interactions
5) Low Cost
6) Stable
7) Simple Name - Define Therapeutics
- Use of drugs to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or prevent pregnancy
- Define clinical pharmacology
- The study of drugs in humans
- What is the therapeutic objective of drug therapy
- Provide maximum benefit with minimum harm
- What are the 4 basic pharmacokinetic processes
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1) Absorption
2) Distribution
3) Metabolism
4) Excretion - Define pharmacology
- The study of drugs and their interactions with living systems
- Define Drug
- Any chemical that can affect living processes
- Define Absorption
- The movement of a drug from its site of administration into the blood
- Define excretion
- Combination of metabolism and excretion
- Define metabolism (biotransformation)
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Defined as enzymatically mediated alteration of drug structure.
- movement of drugs and their metabolites out of the body - Define distribution
- Drug movement from the blood to the interstitial space of tissues and from there into cells.
- What are factors that determine how an individual will respond to a specific drug and dosage
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1) Administration
* Dosage
* Route
* Timing
2) Pharmacokinetics
3) Pharmacodynamics - What is the definition of pharmacokinetics?
- How the body affects drugs
- What is the definition of pharmacodynamics?
- How the drug affects the body