DEFINITIONS
The study of how drugs are best used to treat illness
What is pharmacotherapeutics.
This drug source has been used for centuries in the natural form or exploited for the extraction of therapeutic chemicals
What are plant or herbal sources?
This cell structure is composed of water, electrolytes and nutrients
What is Protoplasm?
The process that occurs from the time a drug enters the body to the time it enters the bloodstream to be circulated
What is absorption?
This theory explains how drugs act on target cells in the body resulting in alterations in the cellular functions and activities
What is the Receptor theory of Drug Action?
A drug may appear on the market under several names. This name is used internationally and never changes
What is the Generic name?
These drugs are made in labs, more standardized in their chemical characteristics, more consistent in their effects and less likely to produce allergic reactions
What are synthetic drugs?
This cell structure is referred to as the "manager " of cellular activity because it regulates the types and amounts of proteins, enzymes, and other substances
What is the Nucleus?
This process is primarily carried out by the liver and is the method by which drugs are inactivated or biotransformed by the body
What is Metabolism?
The extent to which a drug acts on body cells is determined primarily by the number of cell receptors and the characteristics of the drug. True or False?
What is True
Drugs used to prevent, treat or cure disease generally
What are medication?
This process of drug creation involves manipulation of the DNA and RNA of plant cells; animal cells or microorganisms and recombining genes into hybrid which are then inserted into living organisms
What is Biotechnology?
This cell structure contains enzymes which detoxify drugs and other chemicals and produce hormones and drug metabolizing enzymes by liver cells
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
This is a phenomenon of drug metabolism whereby the concentration of a drug, specifically when administered orally, is greatly reduced before it reaches the systemic circulation
What is "First pass effect"?
The __________on the cell is often described as a lock into which only a specific type of drug molecule can fit as a key.
What is Receptor?
Drugs that are usually the standard with which newer and similar drugs are compared
What are Prototypes?
This antibiotic was developed from a bacteria in 1928 by Alexander Fleming
What is Penicillin?
This cell structure stores hormones and other substances produced by the Endoplasmic Reticulum
What is Golgi Complex?
The laboratory measurement of the amount of a drug in the blood at a particular time after administration
What is Serum drug level?
These drugs inhibit cell function and activities by occupying receptor sites thereby preventing natural body substances or other drugs from acting upon the cell.
What are Antagonist?
An adaptive state that develops from repeated drug administration, and which results in withdrawal upon cessation of drug use
What is Drug Dependence?
This medicinal source emerged from folklore, witchcraft, dreams and observing the reaction of some animals to particular herbs.
What is primitive medicine?
Oxygen deprivation to cells caused this cell structure to lose energy which leads to a decrease in cellular activities and functions
What is Mitochondria?
This process is an important factor of drug distribution where drug molecules are made pharmacologically inactive until plasma drug levels decrease.
What is Protein Binding?
Receptors for substances such as hormones, neurotransmitters or certain drug molecules are found on this structure of the cell
What is cell membrane?