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Pharmacology
Pharmacodynamics
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09/09/2010

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Term
Pharmacodynamics
Definition
Study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and their mechanism of action, including the relationship between the dose (or concentration) of a drug and the effect it produces.
Term
Receptor
Definition
The effects of most drugs results from their
reversible association with a functional
macromolecular component of the cell, called what?
Term
neurotransmitters, hormones, autocoids
Definition
What are the three types of receptors of endogenous physiological regulatory molecules?
Term
Agonists
Definition
Drugs that mimic the effects of endogenous ligands by interaction with the same receptors.
Term
Antagonists
Definition
Compounds that inhibit the response of a specific agonist by competition for binding sites.
Term
They have drug actions NOT mediated by receptors
Definition

What do these types of drugs have in common?

 

Antacids

Osmotic diuretics

Chelating Agents

Term
100% of the receptors must be occupied
Definition
With the occupancy theory of drug-receptor interactions the maximal response to the system will require how many of the receptors to be occupied?
Term
Spare-receptor concept
Definition
Which theory of drug-receptor interactions says that a maximal effect can be produced by a drug when only a small proportion of receptor is occupied?
Term
Affinity
Definition
What is a measure between the strength of binding between the drug and its receptor?
Term
Efficacy
Definition
What is the maximum effect of a drug once it is bound called?
Term
Potency
Definition
What refers to the different doses of two drugs that are needed to produce the same effect?
Term
(Full) Agonist
Definition
What is a drug capable of generating a maximal response?
Term
Partial Agonist
Definition
What is a drug that will generate a response, but that response is less than the maximum?
Term
Antagonist
Definition
What is a drug that reduces the effect of an agonist?
Term

Antagonist

 

*it never produces a response (efficacy)

Definition
What type of drug will NEVER have an efficacy?
Term

Therapeutic Index

 

 

*Want this ratio to be BIG - so there is a bigger gap btwn the two

Definition
What is the ratio between two doses of drugs, one dose that causes an effect that is 50% of the maximum and one dose that is lethal for 50% of the population?
Term
Competitive
Definition
What type of drug antagonism is where the agonist and antagonist are fighting for the binding site, if agonist has affinity, it will win. (can affect this by putting more agonist in) – does not change the maximal response.
Term
Noncompetetive Antagonist
Definition

What type of drug antagonism bings to a site other than the agonist-binding domain. It induces a conformational change in the receptor.

 

Term
Physiological Antagonism
Definition
What type of drug antagonism has two agonists in unrelated reactions, that cause opposite effect and these cancel each other out?
Term
Chemical/Neutralization
Definition
What type of drug antagonism has two drugs that bind to one another making both inactive?
Term

The inactive one

 

 

*agonists would shift it towards the active receptor

Definition
In the two-state model, the antagonist would shift the equilibrium towards which receptor?
Term

less

 

Definition
Are beta-adrenoceptors more or less sensitive in the elderly?
Term
More
Definition
Is the CNS more or less sensitive in the elderly?
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