CNS and Synapses
These sacs store neurotransmitters in the axon terminal.
What are vesicles?
This signifies that the ingredients were secret in medications.
What are patent medicines?
This is also known as side effects.
What are secondary or unintended effects?
Medication administered by ______ route is taken orally, sublingually, or rectally.
What is the enteral route?
This speeds up transmissions on the axon.
What is myelin sheath?
This act required manufacturers to include the various drug extracts on the labels of each product.
What is The 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act?
The capacity of a drug to do damage or cause adverse effects in the body.
What is toxicity?
The most common form of orally administered medication.
What is a tablet?
These are also known as supporting cells.
What are glia cells?
This amendment of a previous law was passed to strengthen existing laws and required that labels should not contain any statement regarding the curative or therapeutic effect which is false and fraudulent.
What is The Sherley Amendment in 1912?
When the effect of a drug is enhanced by another drug or substance.
What are potentiative (synergistic) effects?
This refers to how the chemical molecules are moved about in the body.
What is distribution?
This ________ synapse diminishes the likelihood of an impulse in the receiving neuron or reduces the activity in other target cells.
What is an inhibitory synapse?
This form is a formal request to the FDA submitted by pharmaceutical companies if there is sufficient data to demonstrate that a drug is safe and effective.
What is a New Drug Application (NDA)?
The development of tolerance to one drug causes tolerance to related drugs.
What is cross-tolerance?
The original compound that metabolites emerge from during biotransformation.
What are antagonists?
This law provides tax advantages to pharmaceutical companies for the development of drugs that treat rare diseases since this can otherwise be unprofitable.
What is the Orphan Drug Law?
The buildup of drug concentration in the body due to multiple doses taken within short intervals.
The range in dose between the amount of drug necessary to cause a therapeutic effect and a toxic effect.
What is the margin of safety?