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APAP overdose is the leading cause for call to Posion control centers
YES
APAP is overdose and alcohol is assoicated with
Actue liver failure
COX-2 inhbitors were developed ont he premise the these more selective agents would lead to reduction in pain and imfalmamtion, hwoever what seem to be a class effect of all COX-2 inhibtior
cardiovascular toxicty is a class effect--
What are types of drug related problems
overdose, sub thearapetic use, drug interaction, ADR, untreateated,
What is the major cost of drug related morbidity and moraility
drug-related hospitalizaotin
What is difference between a drug recall and drug withdrawl
drug recall is temporary
In most cases FDA drug recall are done volunatrily
YES
What are the categories of drug recalls
Class I
Class II
Class II
What are Class I recalls
recalls for danegous or defective products that coudl cause serious health problems or death
What is Class II recall
recalls for pudcts the MIGHT cause a TEMPORARY health problems or pose slight threat of a serous nature
What is Class III recall
recalls for products are are UNLIKELY to cause any adverse health reactions, but violate FDA regulations
What is definintion of drug
chemicals foregin to the body that can use to treat disease
Drugs can cause desirable (therapetic) and undesisable effects, what are 2 types of undersirable effects
1. non-deleterious
2. delterious
What are non-deleterious
side effects
What are deleterious
toxci effections that can be pharamcological, patholigical or genotoxic
Undesirable effects are deletrioues to humans and are referred to as adverse, deetlerios or toxic which inlcude
allergic reactions
idosyncratic reactions
immediate and delayed toxicity
reversible and irreversbile toxicity
What is the definaiton of toxicology
science of adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms
Toxicology disiclpine is divided into several areas which are
descriptive
mechansistic
regulatory
What is descriptive
mechansitsic
regulatory toxicology
descriptive--evaluating risk fo exposure to particular chemical
mechansistic--detmeine how the exert their effects
regulator--judes wther a drug has low enough risk to jusity making it availbe to humans
All substances are poison, toxicity depnds on
the dose, type of substance, and freqnecue of exposure
What is dose, and how evaulated
the quantity of the compound receive the by organsism--evaluated by dose response
What are the major pathways which toxic agents gain access to the body
GI
Lungs
Skin
other
What is seelctive toxciity
a drug may affect a partulcar cell type b/c of its uptake, meatolism or inhert properties of cell
What is selctive toxicity of APAP
liver
Does ADME affect toxic response
YES
Rate of absroption depends on
lpipid solubility and % ionization
Distribution is the concentration of the compound in the plasma--comounds that distributed to ALL tissue will ahve
low plasma concentration and high volume of distribution
Substances taht are ionized at pH of the plasma will NOT
distribue well
What is biotransformation
making lipophilic substance more hydrophilic
Metabolism is the body's reponse to
lipophilic substance and converts to hydrophilic to excrete
Drugs are converted to oxygenated intermidates that are ACTIVE, than
conjugated to innoucous production and then excreted
The more rapidly compounds are excreted,
the less likely ther are to accumtulated and exert toxic effects
What are major routes of elmination
urine, bile, lungs, secretion into GI, and body fluids
What is the utility of studing mechanisms of toxciity
predictino of drug toxicity
design antidotal therapies
health risk/regulatory limits
monitor
elucidation selective toxicity
cuase/progession of disease state
What are electrophils
agetns that are electron deficient
What are examples of electrophiles (nonionic/cationic)
ketones, expoxides, aldehydes and quinones/quinonemimies_
When are electrophiles produced
drug the drug oxidation and covalent modification
What is toxiciological importance of electrophiles
they permanenetly ALTER the endougenous molecules
Electrophiles interaction with 2 items
1. DNA
2. Proteins
What is major player in APAP metabolism for toxicity
CYP2E1
In APAP overdose, excess APAP is metabolized by CYP2El, result in formatino of
NAPQI
NAPQI is usually immetidately converted to
inactive by GSH or glutatione
However is too much NAPQI is made then glutathione stores are depleted and results in
NAPQI is an electrophile, and destroys liver
What is a free radical
compound with an unparied electrion
How are free radicals produced
oxidation/reduction rections by photolyis or radiation, where release or uptake an electron or cleave a covalent bond
What are toxic consequences of free radicals
1. interactions with DNA
2. Oxidative damge
3. lipid oeroxidation
Free radicals can interact with DNA (nucleic acis) result in damage, what happens with adriamycin
radicals interaction and generate a hydroquione that binds DNA
Redox cycling (bleomycin) can damage DNA in 2 ways
hydroxyl radial react with sugar phoshapte backbone
ROS (reactive oxyen) can cause oxidative damage
Lipid peroxidation is a
chain reaction of free radicals with PUFA and choesterol

poly-unstaurated fatty acids)
What are consequences of chain recation of free radical with lipids
destory cell memabrane and elads to functional impairment of membrane bound proteins
Lipid peroxidation reaults in generation of
aldehydres (4-hydoxynoneal) which can cause protein modficaiton
What are 3 distrubances of cellular mechansism
distrubance of ionic balcnes, energy prodution, and redox balance
WHat is the IDEAL protective mechanism of cellular defense
excretion
What are the protective processes against drug metabolites
generation of polar metabolites, and enzymes
What are the protective processes against free radicals
1. enzymatic/non-enzymatic antioxidants
2. metal sequesting agents
3. DNA repair
What are the 3 polar metabolites
1. sulfation (sulfotransferase)
2. glucuronidaiton (UDP lucoronyltransferases)
3. Glutathione-glutathion S-transferase
Glutathione is a tri-peptide tath plays a central role in cellular defrence,the reaction with GSH can be either
chemical
enzymatic
GSH can directly inreact with the chemical by
direct conjugation by addition, or direct conjugation by displacment
Thre reaction with GSH can also be enzymatic via
Glutathion S-stranserse
Glutation is present in HIGH concetrations
human erythocytes 2mM
hepatocytes 5mM up to 10mM
Where are mebrane bound GST foudn in
ER and outer mitochorniral membrane
Glutathion conjugates may be excreted
in the BILE unchange, or undergo metabolism to mercapturic, which is excreted in URINE
What are protective enzymes againsts drug metabolites
1. DT diaphorase-NQo1
2. ALDH (aldehyde dehydrogenase)
What does NQ01--(NADPH-quinone oxidoreducaste prevent
adds to 2 electrons that prevent free radicals
What does aldehyde dehydrogenase do
converts aldehyde to non-toxic carboxcili acid, can be excreted
The protective mechansims against Free radicals are enzymatic antioxidation/nonenzymatic, adn metral sequesting agents and DNA repair--

What are the enzymatic antioxidants
Superoxide dismutase, Catlase, Glutathione Perodixse,
What are the Non-enzymatic antioxidants
Vitae E and C
What does Superoxide dismutase do
converts superoxide radical to hydrogen peroxide
What does Catalase and Glutathione peroxidase do
convert Hydrogen peroxide to water
GSH is converted by GSH peroxides to GSSG, what is needed to recycle GSSH back to GSH
GSSG reducase and NADPH

NADPH is regenerted by G6PDH
What is Vitamin E
lipid solulbe compound that protect against lipid peroxidation
What is Vitamin C
water soluble radial scavenger
Can Glutathion be both an anti-oxdiation and polar metabolite
YES
What is teh metal sequesting agents MOA
CHLEATION--formation of a metal complex
Ideal chelating actings should
be water solution,
resistant to meabolism
formin non-toxic complexes
low affinity for essentail metals
Chealting should have LOW affintiy for essentail metals ,pariculatly
calcium and zinc
What allow for DNA repair
06 methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase
Methlattion attached to base of O6 methylguanine and commints sucidice to
remove methyl group
Antioxidants do not cure but may
prevent degration and loss
What are the 4 main functions of the liver
1. Bioactivation and detoxifcation
2. Repsiraotion
3. Storage
What is the respiration component of liver function
metabolizes sugars and aa through krebs ccyle
Toxcity moves from Zone 1 to
Zone 3
The liver is 97% heaptocytes but also contains
Kepler cells
Fat-stroign cells (Stellate)
Endotherlia cells
What are the 6 mechanisms of liver toxcity
1. Distruption of Ca+ homeostatis--necoris
2. Choelsttis--Accumation of biles
3. Drug-metabolism induced
4.Immune response
5. Apotisis
6. Inhibting B-oxidationa or respsiration, increases lactate and O2 reactive
Drug induced toxicity of liver can be divided into
Idiosyncratic
Predictable
Idiosyncratic reactions occur indepcnetly from dose, and 2 types
hypersensitivity
genetic polymorphislsm
What is an example of hypersenstivity
acute choestatic hpeatitis after fulfasalazine
What is an example of genetic polymorphism
Isnonizid
What type of reactions ARE dose dependent
predictable reactions
What is an example of direct toxoity
APAP
What are 2 clinical scenarios that cause driect toxic reaction
1. interntionl suicidual overdose
2. therapetic misadvnation
As long as enthanol remains in the body there is competition between APAP and ethranol for
CYP2E1--NAPQI formation is diminshed when alcohol is present
NAPQI formation is diminshed when alcohol is present, however 24 hrs after cessation of alcohol
NAPQI formation is enhance result in increased heaptic injury 24hrs after cessation alcohol
The classic Idiosyncratic reaction is
Isonizaid
What is classic Toxic and Allergic reactions
Halothane toxicity
Toxicity from halothane requires multiple exposures, and pts present with centrolbular necossis in 1 of 2 ways
1. Eelevation of serum transaminases
2. N/V upper abd pain and juaice
What is early stage of Halthane toxic-allergic reactions that can be easily treated
Elevation of serum transaminases with NO external symptoms
N/V upper abd pain,and juanidece represent MORE advanced stage of liver damge, and without intensive care is
fatal
What is Cholestatis
decrease volume of bile formed or imparied secretion
What drug induced hepatocelluar choestatis
chlropromazine--usually in the 1st 4 months

captopril, sulfonamides, suflonglyeruea, and eryhtomycin
Cholangiodestruive choestatis is AKA
blue duct damage
Bile duct damage results in increase serum levels of
alkaline phosphatase
What disease involes damge to the bile canaliculi AND bile ducts
Choestatic Juanice
What cuases Cholestatic Jaundice
Long term estrogen therapy, and alpha-tocopherol acetat
Premateiure infants often have Vit E defiicency, what drug was administerd that caused a huge incidence of choestatic juandice
alpha-tocopherol acetate
What drugs cause allergic Hepatitis
Phenytoin/Erythromycin/Sulfonamdies
Bioactivation is often require for HEPTATIS to occur but NOT though production of toxic metabolites, RATHER
Hapens that promote an immune resonse to ceullar proteins
What drugs cause Crhonic hepatitis
Nitrofuantoin, and Methlydopa

HAATK
Alcoholic Hepatitis results in Steatosis (fatty liver), what drug is associated
Amiodarone (anti0arrhymtic drug)
APAP (direct), and Halothane(allergic-toxic), also cause
chornic hepatitis
What is microvesicular steatosis
abnormal accumulation of numerous SMALL cytopaslmic lipid droplets in hepatocyes
Fulminant or progessive causes of microvesicular steatosis may lead to
liver failure and death
Microvesicular steatosis is cause by
pregnancy, tetracyclines, and Reye's sydrome with ASA
Whati s Microvesicular steosisi MOA
inhibition of B-oxidation of fatty acids
Maco and microvesicular steotis occur in assoication with AIDS and
zidovudine
Reye's Sydnroms is an aggreive form of liver disease assoicated with ASA when administered to children with
viral infection
What is damaged in Reye's syndrome
mitochonrida are damages leading to depletion fo Acytl CO and carintina, and fatty acids acuumatute, hypoglycemia
What is assoicated wtih a rapid form of advanced steotonecrosis
Reye's syndrome
Cirrhois is end stage of chornic liver injry with extsive amnts of fibrous tissue--and effects on collagen
1. increase collagen formation
2. decreases collagen degration
3. increases stellates
4. heapatocytes death
Are Stellate cells activated in Cirrhosis
YES-
What drugs cause Cirrhosis
Methotrexate, Vitamin A, and Methyldopa and Alcohol

MMAA
Vascular disorders of the liver can occur in
sinusoids or large vessels
What happens in sinusoids or large vessels
red cells are trapped into the liver and body goes into shock
What drugs are associated with vascular disorders
cytotoxic compound sin chemitherapy, azathioprine, and sex steriod hormones
What re the pyrrolizines alkaloids include
azathioprine, and tea--comfrey
Adenoma is a benign tumor, but may rupture leading to icnrease bleeding to the intraperitoneal cavity--drugs
hormonal contraceptives
What is the FDAs Medwatch program
parhamceutcal companies are required to report any seroius events to agency within 24
Is surveillance a passive process once the drug is in the market
YES
What are the 2 drugs recently withdrawn from the market
Bromfenac--NSAIDS
Troglitazone
Toxic nephropathy is a general term that descirbes reanl damge caused by either
exogenous or endogenous compounds leading to renal dysdurction
One fuction of kidney is concentrate materials in the PCT-which is where first changes to drugs occurs
YES
Does the kideny have about 25% of the metabolic capacity as the liver
YES
What are the metabolic compoents of the kidney
1. CYP 450
2. GSH
3. Prostaglin synthase
What is a stressed kidney
where GFP is sustaine dby compenstaory mechansism (prostaglands, AII)
Stress kidney is GFR that is sustain by
Hypovolemia, HF, Hepatic dysfunction, elderly
What drugs can cause a stressed kidney
diruetics, cyclopsorin, salt depletion
What drugs cause pre-renal toxicity
NSAIDS, ACE, and Cylosporin
The acute reversible effects of NSADS on renal function is due to
inhibition of renal prostalandis
Is COX2 consitutvely expressed in the kidney
YES
ACE inhbitors dialte the effect arteriole, which can decrease GFR--is reversible
YES
Cyclosporin A is an important immunosuppressive agents tht si widely used to prevent grafy reguion in organ transplantation, it acts by selectively inhibiting
T-cell activting
Do Nearly all pts who receive cyclosporine exhibit neprhotoxocity
YES
What drugs cause Acute intersittial nepritits
Antibiotics--Methicillin, sulphonamides, rifampicin
Direucts: Thiazies, fursemide
What drugs cause ATN (Acute Tubular necrosis
Amingoglycosides
APAP
Amphotercin B
Cisplain
Cephalosporins
Tetracycline
AMinoglycosides are antibiotics that are drug of choice for many
gram-negative infections
Up to 30% of pts treated for 7 days with aminoglycosides show
signs of neprotoxicity--accumulate in PCT
An important risk factor for adminstration of aminoglycosides is other neprhotoxic drugs---order of neprhotoxic potential is related to number of
ionizable amino groups
What is Amphortercin B
effective antifungal drug
Toxicity of Amphoterin B is dose related, and predictable in doses >
5grams
MOA of Amphortercin B
alters mebrane permeability adn induces renal vasoconstriction
Can APAP cause actue renal failure
uncommon
Cisplain is used against a vareity of solid tumors, is MOA may
inhibition DNA and protein synthetis, and transport ruction
How is Cisplatin toxicity minimized
by vigours hydration prior and durign cisplaint therapty
What is hydronephrosis
distention and dilation of renal pelvis,cause by obstuction
Renal obstuction is a common problems with
methotrexate and acylovir
Methotrexate also causes
fibrosis (cirrhois) liver
How can obsturction be avoided
allopurinol and hydration
What is the most common cuased of chronic renal failure
combination of analgesics
Moderate analgest use in health men was NOT assoicated with
increase risk of renal dysfuciton
Declingin renal function, and a reduction in both RBF, and GFR is a major contributor to drug toxicity in
the elderly
What is Tetrogenesis
meanings malformation or monsitority
What is a tetraogen
is an agent that induces strucutal malformation
Development toxicity is any sturcutal or functional alteration reversible/irreversible caused by
environment insult
<50% of pregnancies result in health invidiudal
YES
The nature and incidence of effects of developmental toxcities are dependent on
TIMING and DOSE
The most important concept in development toxicity is the concept of
stage specfici sensitivity
All cells carry essentially the same genetic information, what distingues cell types from one another
differences in gene expression
Normal dvelopment depends on sequential programm and locally singial events
YES
Teratoegencity is governed by
dose-effect realtion and the cruve is steep
Frequnecy and severity of malofrmation increase with
dose
Not all doses of a tetrogen are teratogenic only dose sufficnet to interfere with
specific development events
The embryo has great suscetibilty to checmial than adults, so a teratogen does NOT need to be toxic to the mother to be toxic
to the fetus
The dose-effect relations is dependent on FREQUENCY, and DRUG COMBINATIONS why
Frequency--4 injections is more potent
Drug combinations can result in syngerism--increase potentiation of malformation
What are effects of oral distrubtion in pregnancy
decrease in GI motility and delayed stomach empyting--leads to increased absorption
What are topical effects in pregnacy
increased
What are effects of disbribution in prenacy
Increase body water, and fat--can vary
What are effects of metbolism in pregancy
decreased in pregnancy
What is primary route of extretion of fetal waste products, and GFR is increase 2-fold in pregant women
via maternal blood flow
The traditon view of the placenta as barrier is overrated, the issues is usally how FAST the molecules witll cross rather than
whether they'll get acrosd
Drugs >1000MW
DO NOT CORSS the palcental membrane
Drugs <600
DO CROSS palcenta membrane
What are Categories fo FDA Prenancy
A-D X
"Warning in the label indicated"
Class D
Contraindication in the label indicates what class
Class X
Thalidomide was used in teh 50s and 60s to treat morning sickess--the major defects of thalidomide were
limb defects (kidney, eyes, ears GI, heart)
The sensive period of exposure was between 20-40 days,

What days mainly affect arms
What days arms and legs
27-30 arms
>30 arms and legs
MOA of Thalidomide
Unknown
THalidomide has recently been approved by the FDA for treatment of
Leprosy
Thalidomide appears to moderate immune system reactiosn and can treat
AIDS, and cancer
DES (Diethystilbestrol) was used from the 40-70s to prevent
miscarriage
DES MOA
works via endocrine mechaism
When is DES responsbile for genital tract anormalies in offspring
<18th weeks
Females offsprings that were exposed to DES, developed
vaginal adencarcinomas
Male offsprine exposed to DES develep
gential anomalies--redcue semen volume/quality
Valproic Acid is an anticonvulsant, what did it result in children
spina bifida, menigocele, midfacial hypolasmia
When is the critical period for this defect
30 days post-conception
What Class is valproic acid
D
When do fetus development warfarin syndrome
6-9 weeks gestion
Can exposure to warfarin at all other stages of prenacy cause CNS defect, spontanous abortion, increases risk of materal and fetal bleeding
YES
What is anticoagulant of chioce in pregancy
Heparin
What is the primary teratogenic effect of warfarin
axial and appendicular skeleton, hypoplastic nose, mentral retardation, scolosis
Effect of wafarin is DOSE and TIME denpendent--CNS disorders are due to
later stage in pregny
What is use of Lithium
bi-polar (manic depressive phsychosis)
What are abnormalites of Lithium
Ebstein anormaly (tricuspid is in the right venticle), and clefty palate
What is drug class of Lithium
Class D
When are ACE inhibitors a problem in pregancy
LATER in pregnancy
What are abnormalites of ACE
adverse effects on fetal kidney which reduce volume of amniotic fluid--cause skull defects
Accutane (retinoic acid) is used to treat acne-is tetrogenic in humans at low doses--what is exposure time during pregnacy
3-5 weeks of pregancy
What are abnormalites with Accutance (CLASS X)
hydroceplay, ear malformations, decrease IQ
Cocaine use results in reduced bith weight, CNS and cardiac effects, MOA
disrupts the vasculature--causing hypoxia and malnutrtion
What is more minor FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) or FAE (fetal alcohol effect)
FAE
What is the major human teatogen in Western socieity
etoh
What is abnormalies of FAS
craniofacial effects, nad severe intellculat and behvarioral effects

brain region most senstive to ethanol
Is Caffiene teratogenic
NO
Nicotine/Cigarettes are associated with
low bith weight, and premature birth
What advanced age effect on fetus
increased risk for chromosomal anomilies
What are adolescent age effects on fetus
recude weight, increased risk for malformation
Toxoplasma is a parasite that crosses the placents- when is the severity of fetal damge the worse
3rd trimester (but occurs in all)
What can toxoplasma result in
hydrcephaly, micophtlamia, chorioretinitis, brain lesion, multiple organ damge
25% of women ahve antiboidies against toxplasma--
YES
Insulin-dependent diabetes has been linked to mutiple congetial mallformations such as (3-4x risk)
cardiac, and skeletal morfromation, CNS, and dysgensis
25%of all cases fo hyraamnios (excess amniotic fluid are due to)
maternal diabetes
Diabetes controlled by insulin reduces the risk of congential malformation--is decreased glucose tertogenic
YES
What are the common drugs initally though to teratogenic--NOW SAFE
BOSS D
Bendectin
Oral contraceptives
Spermicides
Salicyltes
Diazepam
Bendectin once prescribed to alleviate morning sickness, one case report started rumors
YES
How do you estimate the infants dose
conc in milk X volume of milk consume
How much volume of milk is typically consumed
200ml/kg/day
Why is the milk:plasma ratio important
the concentration of mand drugs is similar in the mothers plasma and milk--but other drugs can be diffferent (cimetidine)
What is the time require to eliminate 90-95% of a agents
3-5 plasma elmination half-lives