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Pharmocology

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Pharmocology   The science that is concerned with drugs, their sources, appearance, chemistry, actions and uses  
Pharmacokinetics   the movement of drugs within biological systems, as affected by uptake, distribution, binding, elimnation and bio-transformation; the rates thereof  
Why is there such a wide variability in drug effects?   1. Rate and extent of absorption 2. Body size, age and gender 3. Distribution 4. Protein binding 5. Rate and extent of metabolism 6. Elimination rate 7. Drug-receptor interaction 8. Functional rate 9. Placebo effects 10. Interaction with other drugs  
Why is there such a wide variability in drug effects? (cont.)   11. Tolerance 12. Genetic fxs  
Maternal changes in pregnancy   ^Plasma volume ^Cardiac output ^Blood flow to kidneys, stomach and small intestine ^ Rate of oral drug absorption ^Total body water ^Body fat ^Pumonary dunction, Change in hepatic metabolism  
Plasma protein binding is decreased due to...   diluation from increased plasma volume  
Fxs influencing drug exposure to the fetus   1. Chemical characteristics of drug 2. Dose 3. Bioavailability 4. Placental transfer of drugs 5. Distribution 6. Binding or localization in tissues, 7. Bio-transformation 8. Excretion  
The MW of a drug may determine its bio-availability   Non0ionized drugs with high MW and ionized drugs of any MW cross cell membranes poorly, if at all  
Dose   the quantity of a drug that is taken (Prescribed dose versus administered dose)  
Therapeutic dose   The concentration range that produces the desired effect  
Subtherapeutic dose   produces no discernible effect, or less effect than desired  
Bioavailablility   the physiological availability of a drug at its site of action (The amount of bioavailable medication is essentially the amount accessible to the fetus)  
Crossing the cell membrane depends on...   1. MW 2. Solubility at the site of absorption 3. Degree of ionization 4. Relative lipid solubility 5. Degree of protein binding  
Route of administration largely determines...   1. Absorption 2. Bioavailability 3. Amount of medication available to the fetus  
Topical administration   1. Effect is usually local, but can be systemic 2. Absorption depends on surface area, lipid solubility, any condition that increases cutaneous blood flow  
Placental drug transfer   1. The placenta is unique as a biological membrane because it separates the blood of two dinscint individuals--the mother and the fetus  
Placental development: 13 days post-conception   primary chorionic villi develop  
Placental development: 3 weeks post-conception   feto-placental circulation is established  
Placental development: 4 weeks post-conception   Physiologic exchange is established  
Placental drug transfer   1. All drugs equilibrate between the maternal and detal compartment 2. For some drugs, the amount transferred to the detus will be low or none, and produce no known effect 3. Passive diffusion, 4. Facilitated transport 5. Active transport  
Placental Drug Transfer: Characteristics of the placenta   1. Surface area 2. Thickness of the placenta 3. Maternal and detal osmotic pressures 4. Transfer increases over gestation because of the above factors  
Distribution of the embryo   1. Small compounds cross the placenta more easily than large ones (except AFP and antibodies), 2. Unionized compounds cross better than ionized 3. Weak acids tend to accumulate in the embryo 4. Compounds bound tightly to maternal plasma protein...  
Biotransformation (Metabolism)   1. Results from the action (CYP), Factors affecting drug metabolism, rate of hepatic biotransformation is low in the fetus and neonate because liver is immature  
Sites of drug elimination   Kidneys, fecal excretion, biliary excretion, pulmonary excretion, breast milk, sweat, saliva, semen, tears, hair, nails  
Half-life   Measured by the rate of drug excretion. It is a function of both clearance and volume of distribution... the time necessary for the amount of a drug in the body to be reduced by 50%  
After 5 half-lifes...   approximately 97% of a drug has been eliminated  
Drugs are classified based on ...   the pharmacologic effect they produce  
Classification may allow assessment of the fetal risk a specific drug presents...   even in the absence of human data  
Drugs in the same class typically produce similar fetal anomalies or toitiy as the...   index drug  
While one can feel fairly confident generalizing from a class of medications with known teratogenic risks,...   it is less clear that generalization can be made for a class with negative studies  


   


 

 

 
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