pharmacology quiz 1 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update and Recommended Version
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Course
Pharmacology 5334
Institution
Pharmacology 5334
harmakon and logos mean what?
→ pharmakon = poison, drug
→ logos = study
what is pharmacology?
→ basic and clinical applied science that concerns itself with the fate and actions of drugs
in the body
pharmacokinetics definition
→ what the body does to the drug
pharmacokinetics comp...
→ genetic basis of how drugs are worked upon in the body
pharmacogenomics genetic factors control
→ pharmacokinetics
→ pharmacodynamics
toxicology
→ adverse effects of chemicals
→ includes:
→ -drugs used therapeutically
→ -abused drugs
→ -environmental exposure
→ *every drug is toxic at high enough concentrations*
broad definition for drug
→ any chemical substance that affects living processes in a positive or negative manner
working definition for drug
→ any chemical substance used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
receptor theory
→ paul ehrlich 1870s
→ specific interaction of chemicals
→ theorized the "receptor substance"
drugs invented by paul ehrlich
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