Lecture 1

1.
What is pharmocodynamics?
How drugs act upon the body
2.
What are the protein target categories?
Receptors, Ion channels, Transporters, Enzymes
3.
What are the four steps to neurotransmission?
Synthesis, release, action, inactivation
4.
What steps do drugs act upon?
Synthesis, release, action, inactivation
5.
Describe drug targets relating to the synthesis of acetyl choline?
Choline transporter protein, choline acetyl transferase
6.
What are the sites for drug action to inhibit release of acetylcholine?
Calcium channels, vesicular monoamine transporter, presynaptic membrane
7.
What are the action drug targets?
Receptors
8.
What are the four families of receptors?
Ligand gated ion channels, GPCRs, TKRs, steroid hormone receptors
9.
What is the magnitude of current flowing through an activated ion channel?
10^7 ions/s
10.
What are examples of ionotropic receptors (ligand gated ion channels) as drug targets?
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, GABA receptors, glutamate receptors
11.
What acetycholine receptors have 5 subtypes?
Muscarinic
12.
What pathway do the M2 and M4 muscarinic receptors mediate?
Adenylate cyclase, Raf
13.
What pathways do M1, M3, M5 muscarinic receptors mediate?
Phosopholipase C
14.
What drugs target beta adrenoreceptors?
Propanolol
15.
What drugs target adenosine receptors?
caffeine
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18.
What drugs target seratonin receptors?
LSD
19.
What drugs target muscarinic receptors?
Atropine
20.
What drugs target cannabinoid receptors?
Cannibis