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What effects drug absorption and distribution? |
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the route of administration, blood flow at site of absorption, chemical properties of the drug |
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What is enteral route of administration? |
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through digestive tract, orally or retically |
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What is the parenteral route of administration? |
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bypasses the digestive tract(injections, inhalers, pumps, etc) |
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What are two things that determine the chemical properties of the drug? |
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lipophilic or hydrophilic |
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How does blood flow at the site of absorption affect absorption? |
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higher the blood flow, the higher the distribution |
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What is a natural ligand? |
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normal molecule that binds to a receptor and activates it |
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What is an artifical ligand? |
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drug molecule that binds to a receptor |
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activates receptor at same level as natural ligand |
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Where is the first place that all oral medications go after absorption? |
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How does absorption of liquid formations occur? |
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immediately bioavaliable, some absorbed into the oral mucosa, no digestion required prior to absorption |
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What must happen to solid formations? |
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they must be broken down, go through mechanical digestion in the stomach, then be absorbed into the small intestines |
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All oral forms are distributed to the BLANK before entering BLANK |
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liver, general distribution |
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What is first pass metabolism? |
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some of the drug is metabolized before it gets into general circulation |
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What is the pH of the stomach? Small intestines? |
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stomach- ~2 intestines 7-8 |
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inactivates drugs for excretion, but some drugs are activated by this! |
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Where does enterohepatic circulation take plce? |
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between the small intestine and liver, affects amount absorbed into systemic circulation |
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Are drugs that aren't metabolized always excreted? |
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no, they can recirculate through the system |
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What does an antagonist do? |
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binds to a receptor and turns off all activity |
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Injected formulations are immediately BLANK. |
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When is the blood flow rate like when distribution is rapid? Slower? |
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-distributed rapidly when blood flow rate is high -slower distribution when blood flow rate is low |
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What does it mean if a drug has slower release? |
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has extended duration of action, given in place where blood flow is low so it slowly releases into the blood stream |
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If a drug is highly lipophilic what does that mean? |
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a greater percent of bound drug at given time(less active) |
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Are ions hydrophilic or lipophilic? |
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What type of administration is used for hydrophilic drugs? |
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parenteral because these can't cross a membrane, |
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What does it mean if something is hydrophilic? |
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it is water soluble and can be dissolved in plasma |
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elements or molecules that gain or loose and electron |
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What type of drugs ionize in solution? |
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weak acids or bases will ionize in solution |
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Does ionization do the same thing for every molecule? |
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no, it creates different properties for individual molecules |
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What type of charge do ions have? |
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Positive(cation) or negatine(anion) |
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the pH at which 50% of the drug is ionized |
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Can ionized drugs cross the plasma membrane? |
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no because they form hydrogen bonds, they easily dissolve in plasma but cannot cross membrane |
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What happens to nonionized drugs? |
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they are easily absorbed, don't dissolve in plasma, don't have the ability to form hydrogen bonds |
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What are weak acids like at a lower pH? |
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nonionized, that means they are more lipophilic and can cross membranes (oral formations absorbed in he stomach because the pH is 2) |
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What are weak bases like at a higher pH? |
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more nonionized(oral formulations absorbed in the small intestine pH of 7-8) |
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**See notes for m ore information on weak acids and bases** |
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Why are there a lot of side effects with medications dealing with the brain? |
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because it has to be a high enough dose to where some will get through the blood brain barrier |
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What does a drug have to be to be able to pass the placenta? |
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What do lipophilic drugs bind to? |
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plasma proteins, bound drug is not bioavaliable, only free drug is therapeutic |
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Where are plasma proteins made? |
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What is the distribution of drugs affected by? (5) |
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1.size and blood flow to the organ 2.drug solubility 3.plasma protein binding 4.barriers 5.Etc. |
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What does anthopathic mean? |
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drug has hyprophobic and hydrophilic properties |
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Distribution of lipophilic drugs can cause what? |
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drug interactions because of a limited amount of plasma proteins in the blood |
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What happens when two lipophilic drugs compete for plasma proteins? |
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they will compete and the more lipophilic one will win, drug that looses will not be bound at normal %, this drug is more free |
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What is another word for drug metabolism? |
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chemical changes in the drug in order to make excretion more likely, mediated by emzymes |
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What does metabolism do to the drug? |
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polarizes the drug so metabolite will be water soluble -decreases lopophilicity -decreases binding to plamsa proteins -decreases retention in the body |
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What are the three mechanisms of biotransformation? |
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-active drug to inactive metabolite -inactive prodrug(not active until metabolized) to active metabolite -active drug to active metabolite |
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What does a drug+metabolic enzyme produce? |
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what does an effective drug level mean? |
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that the same amount of drug is going into the body as coming out. |
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when there is a effective drug level what is decreased? |
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This is maintaining at least the therapeutic level of the drug in the blood? |
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A steady-state drug level |
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in order to keep a steady state of drug level the dose can fluctuate ______ but will not ____ _______ the therapeutic level.? |
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The amount of time necessary for the concentration of the drug to decrease by 50% is called the? |
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how many half lives are necessary to remove nearly all the drug or to build it to a steady state level? |
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what is Zero- order Kinetics? |
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is when the drug is eliminated at a constant rate in spite of the amount of drug present (ex. Alcohol, Aspirin) |
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Why does the body eliminate the drug at a constant rate despite the amount in zero- order kinetic reaction? |
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because some drugs use metabolic enzymes that get saturated and the amount doesn't matter they cannot increase the reaction. |
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what BAD thing can happen with zero order kinetic reactions? |
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can build up to toxic levels quickly |
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How many phases of metabolize are there? |
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Where does phase 1 of metabolism happen in the body? |
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what kind of drugs go through phase 1 metabolism? |
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lipophilic drugs because they need extra metabolism for easy excretion |
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are Lipophilic drugs easily retained in the body? |
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where are the metabolic enzymes located? |
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is phase 1 metabolism effected by age? |
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besides age what else affects phase 1 metabolism? |
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what are 3 types of reactions that a drug can under go in phase 1 metabolism? |
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1. oxidation 2. Hydrolysis 3. Reduction |
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what is metabolism based on? |
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what does aging cause to happen to enzyme production? |
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decreases, therefor decreasing metabolism |
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because there is a litmited supply of available enzymes for a drug what will the drug do? |
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end up competing for the enzyme for metabolism |
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how will Drugs with increased affinity for enzymes bind and metabolize? |
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How will drugs with a lower affinity bind and metabolize? |
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lower than normal binding and lower than normal metabolism |
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in metabolism, an increase in enzymes =? |
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an increase in metabolism |
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in metabolism, a decrease in enzymes =? |
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If a drug has a low affinity will it have more or less side effects? |
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During metabolism in the liver in phase 1, a lipophilic drug will cause 2 types of enzymes, what are they? |
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certain drugs cause an increased production of enzymes, this will lead to faster metabolism |
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production of enzyme decrease, and metabolism rate decrease. |
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All drugs go through phase ____ but not all go through phase ___? |
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Lipophilic drugs go through phase_____? |
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phase 2 metabolism takes place in the? |
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what enzymes facilitate the process of phase 2? |
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What takes place in Phase 2 metabolism? |
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the lipophilic drugs are bound to water soluble compounds such as acids, by doing this they are more easily excreted. |
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in phase 2 are the same types of enzymes that are in the liver metabolizing the drugs? |
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No, transferase enzymes are in phase 2 |
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Does age, other drugs or metabolism get affected in phase 2? |
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what are the 3 types of renal (urine) routes of excretion? |
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1. Glomerular filtration 2. Active tubular secretion 3. Passive tubular diffusion |
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what is Glomerular filtration? |
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metabolite enters filtrate directly from glomerulus into Bowman's capsule |
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what is active tubular secretion? |
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Pumps that transport metabolites directly into filtrate ager Bowman's capsule |
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This type of excretion requires Energy? |
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what is Passive tubular diffusion? |
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Through channels into filtrate after Bowman's capsule. |
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What excretion route does NOT require energy? |
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Passive tubular diffusion |
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what is another type of excretion besides Renal? |
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where does extrarenal take place? |
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Happens outside of Kidneys |
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what are the different types of extrarenal excretions? |
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pulmonary Biliary Salivary Gingival crevicular fluid sweat or milk |
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what is the modt common route of excretion? |
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what is pulmonary excretion? |
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what is biliary excretion? |
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what is skin and milk secretion? |
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through the skin as sweat and mammary glands as milk |
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what types of renal excretion can happen after the glomerulus? |
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Active tubular secretion and Passive tubular diffusion |
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How does Compliance play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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the patient has to take the drug and take it when they are supposed to |
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How does Psychologic factors play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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if a patient believes that the drug will help them and they will get better, they will (the Placebo effect) |
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How does tolerance of the body play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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the body adjust to the the drug, if a tolerance is built up it may take more of the drug to get the same effect as a lower dose did previously. |
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How does pathologic state play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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Depends on how sick the patient is for how quick the drug will work, (state of the body and organs) |
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How does time play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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night = drug lasts longer due to slower metabolism |
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How does sex play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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male vs. female may metabolize the drug faster or slower. |
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How does genetics play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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some people produce more enzymes and metabolize drugs more quickly and vise versa. |
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How does age/weight play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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weight plays a role because heavier people with more fat = the lipophilic drugs wanting to stay with the fat longer and not go to the blood stream= slower reactions. Age- may metabolize faster when young and slower as person ages |
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How does environment play a role as a factor affecting frug action within the body? |
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altitude, chemicals and other factor in the surroundings can affect the way the drugs react in the body |
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