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WVSOM -- Pharm Word List

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Absorption   uptake of substances into or across tissues  
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Active Secretion    
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Affinity   the attraction of a particular class of receptor to a drug, at a level sufficient to give an observable reaction.  
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Agonist   a medication that has an affinity for and stimulates the activity of cell receptors that are normally stimulated by naturally occurring substances  
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Antagonist   a drug that counteracts, blocks, or abolishes the action of another drug  
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Autoinduction    
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Bioavailability   is used to describe the fraction of an administered does of unchanged drug that reaches the systemic circulation.  
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Bioequivalence   used to assess the expected in vivo biological equivalence of two proprietary preparations of a drug. If two products aer said to be bioequivalent it means that they would be expected to be the same  
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Biotransformation   chemical alteration of a substance within the body, as by the action of enzymes  
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Blood-Brain Barrier   a physiological mechanism that alters the permeability of brain capillaries so that some substances, such as certain drugs, are prevented from entering brain tissue, while others enter freely  
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Clearance   removal by the kidneys of a substance from blood plasma  
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Competitive Reversible Antagonism    
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CSF   cerebrospinal fluid  
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Cytochrome P-450   superfamily of heme-containing enzymes-CYPs of the ETC. Have multiple activities including activation of molecular O2 for incorporation into unactivated hydrocarbons, xenobiotic metabolism, bioremediation and breakdown of drugs and toxins  
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DEA   Drug Enforcement Agency  
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Distribution   location of medications in various organs and tissues after administration  
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Excipients   all the constituents of a remedy that lack medicinal properties  
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LD50   Median lethal dose. Dose that will kill 50% of the tested group.  
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ED50,   median effective does  
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TD50,   median toxic dose  
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Emax   maximal effect  
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Dose:   the quantity to be administered at one time, as a specified amount of medication or a given quantity of radiation  
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Dose Response Curve   relationship between the dose level to an external stimulus or a drug and the response of an organism  
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Dose-dependent Kinetics    
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Drug:   any chemical that affects living systems  
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Drug Interaction   pharmacological result, either desirable or undesirable, of drugs interacting with themselves or with other drugs  
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Drug Product   preparations of formulations. Pills, tablets, capsules  
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Drug Selectivity   capacity to produce a single effect  
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Drug Substance   active ingredient  
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Efficacy – Intrinsic Activity   the largest response or maximal effect a drug can produce  
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Enteral   within or by way of the intestine  
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Excretion   final elimination of a drug or other compound from circulation  
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Extraction Ratio   the fraction of a substance removed form blood flowing thru the kidney, calculated using the ratio of the concentrations of the substance in arterial and renal venous plasma  
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)   us agency that oversees the regulation of biotechnology, food, supplemens, drug products and cosmetics  
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First Pass Drug    
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First Pass Effect    
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Glomerular Filtration   renal process whereby fluid in the blood is filtered across the capillaries of the glomerulus and into the urinary space of Bowman’s Capsule  
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Graded Dose Response    
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Half-life   tiem required for half the quantity of a drug or other substance deposited in a living organism to be metabolized or eliminated by normal biological processes.  
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Hypersensitivity   a state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to what is perceived as a foreign substance  
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Idiosyncracy   an abnormal susceptibility to an agent  
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Induction   act or process of inducing or causing to occur  
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Investigational New Drug Application (IND)    
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IRB   an organizational committee that reviews and approves biomedical research that uses humans as subjects  
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Margin of Safety   amount between a therapeutic does and a lethal dose of a drug  
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Metabolic Activation    
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New Drug Application (NDA)   submitted to FDA for drug approval after clinical trials. FDA evaluates whetehre the drug is safe and effective, proposed labeling, and controls are adequate enough  
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Non-Competitive Antagonism   binds to a site distinct from agonist. Primarily affects efficacy  
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OTC   Over the counter ; non-prescription drugs ; deemed safe without medical supervision  
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Parenteral   adminsitration outside the alimentary canal. By injection through some other rout as subcutaneous, intramuscular etc.  
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Partial Agonist   a drug that combines with teh relevant receptor but not with teh efficiency of the agonist  
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Partition Coefficient   ratio of concentrations of a compound in the two phases of a mixtrue of two solvents at equilibrium  
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Pharmacodynamics   actions of the drug on the body  
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Pharmacokinetics   actions of the body on the drug. Aka absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion  
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Pharmacological Antagonism   the relationship between drugs in which an anatagonist inhibits the activity of an agonist by reacting with the receptor or other part of the effector mechanism.  
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Physiological or Functional Antagonism   a situation in which two agonists interact with different receptors and produce opposing effects  
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Placebo   a substance containing no medication and prescribed or given to reinforce a patient’s expectation to get well  
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Post-Marketing Surveillance   practice of monitoring a pharmaceutical drug or device after it has been released on the market  
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Potency   related to the amount of a drug needed to produce a given intensity or effect  
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Potentiation   enhancement of one agent by another so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of the effects of each one alone  
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Quantal Dose Response    
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Receptor   a molecular structure in a cell or on the surface of a cell that allows binding of a specific substance that cauases a specific physiologic response  
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Risk-Benefit Ratio   consideration of whether a medical or surgical procedure is worth the risk to the patient as compared with the possible benefits if the procedure is succesful  
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Schedule Drug (Controlled)    
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Side Effect   a consequence other than that for which an agent is used, especially an adverse effect on another organ system  
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Spare Receptors   an excess of receptors exists at some sites  
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Synergism   joint action of agents so that their comined effect is greater than the algebraic sum of their individual parts  
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Tachyphylaxis   rapidly decreasing response to a drug or physiologically active agent after administration of a few doses  
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Therapeutic Index   LD50/ED50 – Higher ratio = more safe/less toxic. 20 or more relatively safe  
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Therapeutic Window   well-defined range of a drug’s serum concentration at which a desired effect occurs, below which there is little effect, above which toxicity occurs  
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Tolerance   decrease in susceptibility to the effects of a drug due to its continued administration  
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Topical   of or pertaining to a drug or treatment applied to the surface of a part of the body  
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Toxicity   the ability of a drug or poison to produce harm, especially cause permanent injury or death  
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Volume of Distribution   the calculated body space available for distribution of a drug  
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