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Clinical Pharmacology ? The study of the effects of drugs in humans.
A drug substance is used TREAT disease, RELIEVE symptoms of disease, or
to... CURE the disease
3 Principal components Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, Drug
of Clinical Delivery System
Pharmacology?
The study of the effects of drugs on the body and
PHARMACODYNAMICS
their mechanisms of action.
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An INTENDED effect of the drug
Therapeutic Effect -an effect to treat or or prevent a disease, or relieve
its symptoms
The effect of a drug on a patient
Clinical Effect
AKA: Drug Effect
Effects which may or may not be related to a drugs
Non-Therapeutic Effects therapeutic effects
-Adverse Effects / Side Effects
Mechanism of Action The way a drug exerts its effect
Narcotic analgesic produces analgesia by
STIMULATING the cells that reduce pain
Mechanism of Action
transmission
related to Drug Effect
-Drug stimulates cell which is mechanism
-Reduced pain is the effect
The specific site at which an individual drug
Receptor
molecule acts to produce a pharmacological effect.
How do drugs interact The drug reacts with a receptor that triggers or
with receptors? blocks a biological activity.
They "turn on" or trigger a response or biological
Receptors (Agonist)
activity
They "turn off" or block a response, or biological
Receptors (Antagonist)
from the drug
Describes how the body effects a drug including
how the drug is ABSORBED into the bloodstream,
Pharmacokinetics
DISTRIBUTED to tissues and fluids, METABOLIZED,
and EXCRETED from the body.
4 Processes that Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion
comprise -All 4 processes occur simultaneously
pharmacokinetic
handling of a drug by the
body
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