Chapter 3
This type of law allows companies to receive tax advantages if they develop drugs that are designed to treat rare diseases and hence are not very profitable.
Orphan Drug Law
This term is described as the maintenance of internal stability
Homeostasis
This term is described as the difference between the dose of drug necessary to cause a therapeutic effect versus the dose necessary to cause a toxic effect.
Margin of safety
Metabolism can do these three things
Inactivates drugs, helps to eliminate drugs more rapidly, and inactivate hormones and neurotransmitters
Drugs under this schedule have high abuse potential but are approved for medical purposes.
Schedule II
This hormone is not a neurotransmitter?
Androgen
The capacity of a drug to do damage or cause adverse effects in the body is know as (hint-ends in ty)
Toxicity
This term refers to changes that decrease response to a set dose of a drug.
Tolerance
This Act allowed the manufacturer to determine whether a drug was to be labeled prescription or nonprescription.
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938
Sedation and a mellowing of temper is an unlikely side effect of abusing this type of drug.
Anabolic steroids
This term is described as the ability of one drug to enhance the effect of another.
Synergism
A comparison of dosage for therapeutic versus toxic effects is the best description of this concept
Margin of safety
Neurons are responsible for conducting the homeostatic functions of this body organ.
Brain
The principal forms of drug administration include these three forms
Injection, oral ingestion, and inhalation
This type of interaction is described as the kind of drug effect that occurs when one drug cancels or blocks the effect of another.
Interceptive interaction
Drugs that are very fat soluble are most likely to affect this body organ
Brain
This type of effect is described as the maximum drug effect, regardless of dose
Plateau effect