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Thestudy of the drug mechanisms that produce biochemical or physiological changesin the body |
Pharmodynamics |
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Drugs can modify cell function or therate of function but cannot create new cellular functions - True or false? |
True |
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What the body does with the drug is called? |
Pharmokinetics |
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Drugs that interact with a receptor toproduce a response |
Agonists |
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Drugswith no specific pharmacological action of their own but which interact with areceptor to inhibit or prevent the action of the agonist that block a receptor |
Antagonists |
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Name a specificnarcotic antagonist that reverses/blocks the action of morphine? |
Naloxone |
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Anideal drug would interact with only one molecular target at one site and haveonly one effect? |
Specific |
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A preference for a molecular target, most drugs show this through |
Selectivity |
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Drugs that can cause multiple and widespread effects |
Non-selective |
