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Decks in this class (24)

General principles of pharmacology (L1&2)
What is pharmacodynamics,
What is pharmacokinetics,
What are the principles of pharma...
63  cards
Agonists & dose response curves (L3)
What is an agonist,
What are the 2 types of dose resp...,
Why do we use a semi logarithmic ...
26  cards
Antagonists & dose response curves (L4)
What is an antagonist,
What are the 3 general classes of...,
What are chemical antagonists
28  cards
Drug absorption & distribution (L5)
What is pharmacokinetics pk,
What is pharmacodynamics pd,
What happens in absorption
28  cards
Drug elimination 1 (L6)
What is adme,
What is first pass metabolism,
What is enterohepatic recirculati...
26  cards
Drug elimination 2 (L7)
What is elimination,
What are the major systems concer...,
What is metabolism of drugs
34  cards
Pharmacokinetics (L8)
Why do we need to be able to calc...,
What is bioavailability,
What is volume of distribution
10  cards
Signalling in the nervous system (L9)
0  cards
Drugs acting on the parasympathetic nervous system (L10)
What is the parasympathetic system,
What is the autonomic nervous system,
What happens in rest and digest
24  cards
Drugs acting on the sympathetic nervous system (L11)
Where does na act as a neurotrans...,
What is the sympathetic nervous s...,
Na pharmacology
31  cards
Drugs used to treat asthma & drugs affecting the respiratory system (L12)
Regulation of respiration,
Parasympathetic activation,
Sympathetic activation
27  cards
Local anaesthetics (L13)
What are anaesthetics,
What are analgesics,
Whats the difference between loca...
21  cards
Drugs & treatment of Parkinson's (L14)
What is parkinsonism,
Da neurones in parkinsons,
Pathology of parkinsons
34  cards
Antidepressants (L15)
Symptoms of depression,
What is anhedonia,
Facts of depression
45  cards
Drugs of abuse (L16)
Measures of dependence,
What is the dsm 5,
What does the amount of symptoms ...
23  cards
Drugs targeting the endocrine system (L17)
How is the endocrine system organ...,
Whats the difference between the ...,
What are hormones
44  cards
Sex hormones and oral contraceptives (L18)
What is the hypothalamic pituitar...,
Physiological effects of oestroge...,
Physiological effects of progeste...
25  cards
Inflammation (L19)
What is the purpose of inflammation,
Signs of inflammation,
What are the 2 inflammatory respo...
36  cards
Antihistamines (L20)
What is histamine,
What cells are involved in histam...,
What do basophils do
28  cards
Antibiotics (L21)
What are the 3 antibiotic modes o...,
Bactericidal,
Bacteriostatic
50  cards
Anticancer therapy (L22)
Solid tumours,
What is chemotherapy,
What do we need to selectively kill
39  cards
Antiprotazoals (L23)
Distributional selectivity,
How can you achieve distributiona...,
Leishmania
23  cards
Toxins, poisoning and overdose (L24)
What is toxicology,
What is biochemical toxicology,
What are xenobiotics
20  cards
Individual variation to drugs and adverse drug reactions (L25)
What is an adverse drug reaction,
Drug safety is a relative concept...,
What features suggest a cause and...
24  cards

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