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Pharmacology definition
The study of drugs and their interactions with living systems
any chemical that can affect living processes
Drug definition
Active ingredient definition
The drug in the medicine that affects function, normally very small
Works to fill out the drug, have no effects on the cells
Inactive ingredient definition
What causes an adverse effect
  • drug has additional effects on body due to lack of specificity
  • patient is hypersensitive to the drug
  • patient not taking the prescribed dose
  • dose incorrectly prescribed
  • drug-drug interactions
One drug can be affected by another drug, can be deadly
Example- brompcriptine and pseudoephedrine
Drug interactions definitions
Give examples of drugs that come from plants
  • aspirin, from Salic alba, spires spp, and betula spp
  • opiates, from opium poppy
  • Penicillin
  • chloramphenicol
  • neomycin
Give examples of drugs that come from microbes
Give examples of drugs that come from animals
  • heparin from pigs
  • insulin from pig pancreas
  • Thyroxin from a thyroid
  • iron from ferrous sulphate
  • calcium from calcium carbonate
Give examples of drugs that come from minerals
Polypharmacy definition
Use of several drugs during the same period
  • addiction/habituation
  • example is opiates and benzodiazepines
  • can be physiological or biological
What is dependance
Poison definition
Any substance capable of causing a harmful response in a biological system
Poisons that originate from living organisms
Toxin definition
What are advantages of synthetic drugs
  • quality of product can be controlled
  • process is easier and cheaper
  • safer
  • large scale production
  • can be modified to improve properties
  • products produced from living organisms
  • very large and difficult to generate synthetically
What are biological drugs
Pharmacodynamics definition
The study of what the drug does to the body
The study of what the body does to the drug
Pharmacokinetics definition
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics definition
Characterising the indications and therapeutic uses of drugs
The study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms
Toxicology definition
Pharmacogenomics definition
The study of how genes affect a persons response to drugs
Study of the interrelationship of genetic differences and drug effects
Pharmacogenetics definition