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Hormone Imbalance:
Cushing's Syndrome
High Cortisol
Hormone Imbalance:
Conn's Syndrome
High Aldosterone
Hormone Imbalance:
Addison's Disease
Low Cortisol and aldosterone
Hormone Imbalance:
Graves' Disease
High T4
MacConkey's Agar
-Selects out Gram (+)
-Distinguishes lactose/non-lactose fermenters
Pink colonies = lactose fermenters
White = non-lactose fermenters
Drug classes for treating glaucoma.
alpha-agonists
beta-blockers
Diuretics
Cholinergic agonists
Prostaglandins
Tuberous Sclerosis:
Symptoms
Risk of developing which neoplasms
Ash leaf spots, seizures, MR

Risk:
Cardiac rhabdomyoma
Astrocytoma
Angiomyolipoma
Achalasia:
Cause
What is it?
Lose myenteric (Auerbach's) plexus

Lower esophageal sphincter unable to relax
Leading cause of death in 15y-24y (top 5)
Injuries
Homicide
Suicide
Cancer
Heart Disease
Leading cause of death in 25y-64y (top 5)
Cancer
Heart Dz
Injuries
Suicide Stroke
Which glomerular disease:
anti-GBM ab's
Goodpasture's Syndrome
Which glomerular disease:
Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesions
Diabetic Nephropathy
Which glomerular disease:
spike and dome appearance
Membranous glomerulonephritis
Which glomerular disease:
tram track of subendothelial humps
Membroproliferative glomerulonephritis
Which glomerular disease:
subepithelial humps
Acute poststrep glomerulonephritis
Clinical uses for metronidazole.
GET GAP on the METRO

Giardia
Entameoba
Trichomonas
Gardenerella vaginalis
Anaerobes
H. pylori
2 Mot Common Post-MI Complications
Arrhythmia (V fib most lethal)

LV failure (pulm edema, R-sided HF)
What is Dressler's Syndrome?
Autoimmune dz
Occurs weeks post-MI
Results in fibrinous pericarditis
Chronic Granulomatous Disease:
Cause
Lack of NADPH oxidase activity

Results in impotent nphils/phagocytes, lysosome doesn't work
WAGR Syndrome
Wilms' Tumor
Aniridia
GU malformation
Retardation
Metronidazole:
Dietary restriction
Metronidazole has disulfiram-like effects

AVOID ETOH
Km
Substrate required for enzyme to achieve V1/2

Decreasing Km-->Higher enzyme affinity for substrate
Competitive inhibitor:
Effect on Km
Effect on Vmax
Changes in Lineweaver–Burk Plot
Need more substrate to get V1/2 max

Effect on Vmax: None

Changes in L-B Plot:
Changes x-intercept (Km)
Noncompetitive inhibitor:
Effect on Km
Effect on Vmax
Lineweaver–Burk Plot
No effect on Km
Dec'd Vmax

Changes y-intercept (Vmax)
Vd =
amount of drug given (IV)/[drug] in plasma

MUST BE A NUMBER, not L/kg!!
CL =
(0.7 x Vd)/t1/2

Where Vd = amount of drug given/plasma concentration of drug
Loading Dose =
Loading Dose-

Css x Vd

Vd = amt of drug amin'd/plasma concentration

Css = desired [ ]
MD =
Maintenance Dose

Css x CL

CL = (0.7 x Vd)/t1/2

Css = desired [ ]
How many half-lives to reach steady state [ ] ? To get rid of a drug?
4 half-lives for both!
Assuming constant infusion, [ ] of drug at:
1 half-life
2 half-lives
3 half-lives
4 half-lives
1 half-life: 50%
2 half-lives: 75%
3 half-lives: 87.5%
4 half-lives: 93.75%
Zero-order elimination:
What is it?
Rate of elimination (exponential/linear)
Drug examples
Rate of elimination constant regardless of concentration in plasma

PEA: pea is round, like the number 0.

Phenytoin
EtOH
ASA
First-order elimination:
What is it?
Rate of elimination (exponential/linear)
Elimination proportional to drug plasma concentration

Exponential elimination (more drug-->faster elmination)
Effect of ionization on drug elimination.
Ionized species are trapped in urine and excreted quickly.
Weak acids:
Examples
Treatment of OD
ASA
Methotrexas
Phenobarbital

Get trapped in basic environments, tx with bicarbonate (makes urine basic)
Weak bases:
Examples
Treatment of OD
Ex: amphetamines
Tx w/acidic environments (ammonium chloride)--makes urine acidic
Phase I Elimination:
What is it?
Product characteristics.
Where is it happening?
RedOx, hydrolysis
Yields polar, water-soluble metabolites that are still active

Hepatic: cyp-450
Phase II Elimination:
What is it?
Product characteristics.
Phase II: GAS
Glucuronidation
Acetylation
Sulfation

Yields very polar, inactive metabolites that are renally excreted

Involves conjugation
Phase I vs Phase II metabolism:
Which do geriatric patients employ?
Geriatric pts lose phase I first; geriatric pts have GAS (phase II)
Patients who are slow acetylators have greater side effects from drugs because _____.
Lower rate of phase II metabolism
Efficacy vs Potency:
General
Km or Vmax
Efficacy: Vmax; max effect drug can produce

Potency: Km; amt drug needed for given effect. high potency-->high affinity for receptor
__________ inhibition is irreversible.
Noncompetitive
Partial agonist:
Effects on Vmax
Partial agonist will always decrease Vmax (compared to full agonist) and change efficacy
Therapeutic index =
Safer vs Dangerous values
LD50/ED50 = Lethal Dose50/Effective Dose50

Safe = higher TI value (lower ED50)
ED50 vs LD50
LD50 = lethal dose to 50% of populn

ED50 = effective dose to 50% of populn
Drugs with Low TI:
Safe or Dangerous
Examples
Dangerous.

Phenobarbital
Lithium
Digoxin
Coumadin
Drugs that inhibit cyp450
PICK EGS

Protease inhibitors
Isoniazid
Cimetidine
Ketoconazole
Erythromycin
GRAPEFRUIT JUICE
Sulfonamides
Phases of clinical trials
Drug I: is it safe? use healthy volunteers

Phase II: does it work? people with disease

Phase III: does it work better? compare with standard of care

Phase IV: post-market surveillance
Effects of Symp NS:
Heart
Eye
Salivary Glands
Bronchiolar SM
Bladder
Male GU
GI tract
Inc HR, inc contractility
Mydriasis (d for dilate)
Viscous secretions from salivary glands
Bronchial relaxation
Ejaculation (Point and Shoot)
Dec digestion
Effects of Psymp NS:
Heart
Eye
Salivary Glands
Bronchiolar SM
Bladder
Male GU
GI tract
Dec HR, dec contractility
Miosis (contraction of iris)
Watery secretions
Bronchial constraction
Cause urination
Erection (Point and Shoot)
Inc digestions
Psymp nerve to heart is ______.
Vagus
Syx of excess Psymp activity.
Psymp drugs make you leaky!

DUMBBELLS
Diarrhea
Urination
Miosis
Bronchospasm
Bradycardia
Excitation of skeletal muscle/CNS
Lacrimation
Sweating
Salivation
Direct vs Indirect Cholinomimetic Agents:
General Mechanism
Direct: activates M-receptor
Indirect: inhibits acetylcholinesterase
Bethanechol:
Drug Class
Use
Urinary retention

Direct muscarinic agonist
Carbachol:
Drug Class
Use
Glaucoma

Direct muscarinic agonist
Pilocarpine:
Drug Class
Use
Glaucoma

Direct muscarinic agonist; cry, drool on your PILOw.
Methacholine:
Drug Class
Use
Challenge test for asthma

Direct muscarinic agonist
Neostigmine:
Drug Class
Use
Post op neurogenic ileus; urinary retention, myasthenia gravis

REVERSE anesthesia effects

STIGMINE = anti-cholinesterase
Pyridostigmine:
Drug Class
Use
-STIGMINE = anticholinesterase
RID gets RID of Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia Gravis:
Pathophys
Presentation
Diagnostics
Pathology
Abs to Ach receptor

Ptosis or diplopia that worsen throughout day

Tensilon Test

Pathology:
Thymic hyperplasia (50% of the time), atrophy, thymoma
What is a myasthenic crisis?

Treatment.
Rapidly progressing weakness esp in resp muscles

Tx: anticholinesterases
Neostigmine, pyridostigmine

Corticosteroids

Thymectomy (often curative)

Plasmepheresis to remove Ab's from plasma
Physostigmine:
Drug Class
Use
Anticholinesterase

PHysostigmine PHixes atropine overdose.
Donepezil:
Drug Class
Use
Anticholinesterase

AD
Insecticide Poisoning:

Symptoms
Treatment
Parathion, organophosphates--irreversibly inhibit AchE

Syx: Diarrhea, Urination, Miosis, Bronchospasm, Bradycardia, Excitation of skel muscle, Lacrimation, Sweating, Salivation

Tx:
Atropine (reverses syx)
Pralidoxime (regenerates AchE)
Symptoms of inhibiting psymp activity.

Possible cause.
Hot as a hare (inc'd temp)
Dry as a bone (dry mouth, dry skin)
Red as a beet (flushed)
Blind as a bat (cycloplegia--paralysis of ciliary muscle; blurry vision)
Mad as a hatter (delerium)
Bloated as a toad (urinary retention)

Possible cause: atropine
Atropine:
Use
Drug Class
Muscarinic antagonist
Produce mydriasis, cyclopegia

TROP
Homatropine
Muscarinic antag
Produce mydriasis, cyclopegia

TROP
Tropicamide
Musc antag
Produce mydriasis, cyclopegia

TROP
Benztropine:
Drug Class
Use
Musc antag

Parkinson's dz
PARK my BENZ
Scopolamine:
Drug Class
Use
Musc antag

Motion sickness
Ipratropium:
Drug Class
Use
Musc antag

Asthma, COPD
Oxybutynin:
Drug Class
Use
GU; reduce urgency in mild cystitis
Drugs used in urge type urinary incontinence.
Oxybutynin
Tolterodine
Darifenacin, solifenancin
Trospium
Metscopolamine:
Drug Class Use
Musc antag

GI; peptic ulcer treatment
Contraindications of atropine
Glaucoma--don't want to dilate eyes

BPH, urinary retention (will exacerbate retention)

GI retention (ileus)

Dementia (atropine can cause delerium on its own)

Infant with fever; atropine can cause hyperthermia