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Pharmacology is.. |
Medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs |
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Pharmacodynamics is... |
Effects of drug on the body |
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Pharmacokinetics is... |
Effect of the body on drugs |
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Pharmacotherapeutics is... |
The use of drug in treatment and prevention of disease |
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How do drugs act? |
Mimicking or otherwise affecting the natural chemicals or processes of the body |
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What does an agonist do? |
Binds, activates and elicits a response |
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What does a partial against do? |
Binds, activates, elicits a less than maximum response |
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What does an antagonist do? |
Binds, fails to activate and fails to elicit a response |
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The drug pathway is.. |
Administer, absorb, distribute, interact, eliminate |
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How can you administer drugs? |
Orally, Rectally, IV, Nasal |
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How do you eliminate drugs from the body? |
Urine, Faeces, Breathing |
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Two properties determine the type of drug action, these are.. |
Affinity and Efficacy |
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Affinity is.. |
Probability a drug will interact with receptor |
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Efficacy is.. |
How likely it is to have the effect you want |
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Potency is.. |
Amount of drug needed to elicit a specified response |
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Maximal efficacy is.. |
Maximal response/effect produced by drug |
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The graded dose response slope reflects.. |
The magnitude of change in response with a unit change in dose |
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Biological variability is.. |
Physiological differences among subjects and within the same subject over time |
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Therapeutic index is... |
The ratio of toxic to therapeutic dose |
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The therapeutic index provides a measure of |
Magnitude of safety and benefit to risk ratio |
