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Pharmacology Study
Pharmacologic Principles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The highest level a drug reaches in the body. | Peak Concentration |
| The strength of the attraction between a drug and receptor | Affinity |
| Decreased responsiveness as a result of repeated drug administration | Tolerance |
| Lipid soluble drug | Lipophilic |
| The study of drugs in humans | Clinical Pharmacology |
| Immune system response | Allergic reaction |
| Study of drugs and their interactions with living organisms | Pharmacology |
| The moving of drugs and their metabolites out of the body | Excretion |
| The body has adapted to long term drug exposure in such a way that an abstinence syndrome results if the drug is stopped | Physical Dependence |
| The ratio of the 50% lethal dose to the 50% effective dose measures drug safety | Therapeutic index |
| Adverse reaction caused by over dosing | Toxicity |
| Using drugs to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or prevention of pregnancy | Therapeutics |
| Medicines and other chemicals that can cause birth defects | teratogens |
| any chemical that can affect living processes | drug |
| antagonists that bind irreversibly to receptors | noncompetitive antagonists |
| molecules that activate receptors | agonists |
| molecules that prevent receptor activation by endogenous regulatory molecules and drugs | antagonists |
| the plasma level at which toxic effects begin | toxic concentration |
| an uncommon drug response resulting from a genetic predisposition | idosyncratic effect |
| The ability of certain medications and environmental chemicals to cause cancers | carcinogenic effect |
| the largest effect that a drug can produce | maximal efficacy |