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pharmacodynamics
when we talk about pharmacodynamics it's
basically a very interesting concept
that we're going to pick up from
pharmacokinetics so if you guys remember
from pharmacokinetics really basic
the adme the absorption of the drug the
distribution of the drug the metabolism
of the drug and the excretion of the
drug were all a part of the
pharmacokinetics where you take a drug
and we said in a perfect world let's say
that we take it orally po moves through
the gastrointestinal tract has to be
absorbed so it has to cross cell
membranes when it crosses cell membranes
to get into the blood
it goes into the hepatic portal system
the hepatic portal system will then take
this medication to the liver the liver
will always if it goes via the oral
route will get some piece of that drug
where it can activate or you know break
down some of the actual drugs so it'll
have what's called first pass effect or
first pass metabolism
so then what it'll do is some of that
drug it may metabolize and then the
other remaining portions it'll put into
the systemic circulation from there we
know once the drug goes it'll actually
distribute throughout the actual
vasculature and into the tissues where
it can go and exert its effect
this here is where we're going to see
the pharmacodynamic effect but if you
guys remember finishing off the pharmacokinetics
pharmacokinetics
after a drug is done performing its
particular function or it's moving
through the circulation it can be taken
to the kidneys where it can be excreted
or it can be taken to the liver where it
can be metabolized and also excreted and
these are the primary organs of
clearance of the drug
now whenever the drug gets to the actual
tissues what we can see is what the drug
does to the actual body whereas
pharmacokinetics is like
you know what the body is actually doing
to the drug if you will so now we have
to see what does this drug actually do
to the body particularly the cellular
component of our tissues or organs
subsequently so if we take and we
actually look and zoom in at this drug
interaction here we're going to look at
one of these particular cells so here's
our drug in order for a drug to be able
to bind to a cell and produce a
particular cellular response
it needs to be able to act on a receptor
right so there needs to be a receptor
that the drug can actually bind to once
it binds to that receptor it'll then
produce a particular cascade of events
intracellularly that activate the cell
or inhibit the cell and cause it to
produce the appropriate cellular
response so some drugs are working to
inhibit the cells some drugs are working
to stimulate the cell either way that is
the cellular response in order for the
drug to do that it has to bind either 2a
extracellular receptor we'll put ec
receptor and then via second messenger
systems work to be able to stimulate
second messages to produce the cellular response
response
or the drug has to be able to move into
the cell and bind onto a intracellular receptor
receptor
where it will then again produce a
cellular response via a specific cascade
of events what we have to understand now
is if we take this drug and have it bind
onto extracellular receptors what are
the different types of extracellular
receptors and why are they different
what are some examples of drugs that act
with different types of receptors and
then we talk about the intracellular
receptors and what kind of drugs
particularly interact that way we're not
going to go down the crazy rabbit hole
of signal transduction and intracellular
receptor pathways we talk about that in
cellular biology but it's just enough
for us to understand the basic concept
here and the last thing we'll do is
we'll talk about something called
desensitization also known as
tachyphylaxis intolerance with respect
to drug receptor interactions all right
so let's come and now talk about when we
have a drug interacting with a receptor
let's say an extracellular receptor what happens
happens
all right so we have different types of
extracellular receptors
first one that i want you guys to
remember is drugs can actually bind onto
extracellular receptors that are poor
what's called a ligand ligand-gated
ion channel it's actually pretty
straightforward let's say here i have a
neuron on this neuron i have these
particular channels if you will that are
supposed to allow for maybe particular
ions maybe positive ions to flow in
maybe negative ions to flow in maybe
positive ions to flow either way it's
some kind of concept like that there's a
little gate if you will
that's basically
controlling the entry of drugs so
there's these ions are not going to be
able to allow for these this gate is
blocking these ions from moving into the
actual cell
but if i give a particular drug
that wants to bind into this little
pocket here that's a part of the
ligand-gated ion channel and once it
binds onto that pocket it lifts the gate open
open
and now this gate that was completely closed
closed
is open and there's an opportunity for
the particular ions to easily flow in or
out of this neuron
and now this is actually a really cool
concept for example let me tell you an
example of a particular drug here let's
say i have
a drug
such as
lorazepam so lorazepam
is really interesting because lorazepam
acts on what's called gaba a receptors
so it'll work on what's called gaba a
a
receptors now gaba a receptors are
ligand-gated ion channels so let's
pretend this black dot here is gaba
gaba
when gaba binds on to these channels
these channels are generally closed
we don't want them to be open but when
gaba binds to it what it'll do is it'll
open up the channel and allow for
negatively charged chloride ions
to easily flow
flow
into the actual neuron
and as these chloride ions inflow into
the neuron it makes the cell super
negative and it basically hyper
polarizes it and decreases action
potentials you want to know why this is
interesting we can give lorazepam in
situations where you want to decrease
the activity of neurons you know where
that would be a very important situation
seizures so it may be able to work to
inhibit or decrease seizure activity so
that's kind of one example
of how drugs can work at the receptor
and produce a cellular response is they
bind onto a ligand-gated ion channel
either open that channel close that
channel and then depending upon what
kind of channel they bind onto will
determine which kind of ion flows in or
out and then the associated cellular
response so you get you see how that
happens there
all right so the next situation here
that we have to talk about where a drug
can bind to an extracellular receptor
and produce the cellular response
is not the ally and data but it can be
via what's called g-protein-coupled
receptors this is also pretty cool
so g-protein-coupled receptors are
what's called seven pass receptors
or serpentine receptors and basically it
has a little receptor domain where the
drug combines so this is the receptor
domain so where a drug would actually
bind into that pocket and then there's
these like you see how it actually moves
through the actual membrane seven times
one two three four five six seven that's
why they call it a seven pass
transmembrane receptor
what happens is
drugs can actually bind onto
these particular receptor domain when it
binds on to the receptor domain of each
one of these little pockets here of this
g protein coupled receptor what it does
is it changes the shape of the actual
receptor it changes the shape of this
intracellular domain if you will now
this intracellular domain is connected
to something called a g protein so it's
connected to something called a g
protein and there's different types of g
proteins if you will
so here i'm going to have a g protein
for each one
one of the g proteins
may be what's called gq
so gq and what gq is it's a very
interesting type of g protein so let's
say that we have a drug binds to this
receptor domain changes the shape of the receptor
receptor
and then what it does is it stimulates a
particular g protein now g proteins
normally they're bound to something called
called
gdp but what we're going to do is we
want to activate this even more
so what we do is we have them pop out
gdp and have them bind what's called gtp
and this really stimulates this gq protein
protein
what gq will do then is it'll move along
the cell membrane and stimulate
this enzyme okay that's embedded into
the cell membrane you know what this
enzyme is called it's a very important
one for you guys to remember especially
for this it's called phospholipase c
and what phospholipase c will do is is
it'll break down different components of
the cell membrane a molecule called pip2
it'll break it down into two components
one is called diacylglycerol and the
other one is called ionocytotriphosphate
and what these things do is is this will
activate something called a protein
kinase particularly a protein kinase c
and this will work to increase calcium
ions inside of the cell
what this may do is you might be like
okay zach i have no idea what the
significance of this is
protein kinases you know what's really
interesting about these is they
phosphorylate things so if there's let's
say channels that are on the cell
membrane that currently
currently they're inactivated
currently they're inactivated but i
have this drug bind to this receptor
activate this gq protein
it then activates this enzyme which
activates these second messengers like
diacetyl glycerol or inositol
triphosphate what do they do well this
will increase calcium let me explain why
this could be cool
protein kinase c can then go
and phosphorylate all of these channels
if it adds a phosphate group to these
channels it may activate them or
inactivate them let's say it activates them
them
if it activates them it opens them up so
allow for maybe positive ions to easily
flow into the cell
bringing positive ions into the cell
could potentially stimulate this cell
let's give an example
let's say i have a drug here like
norepinephrine here's norepinephrine and
i want norepinephrine to act on the
heart cells the heart muscle
what norepinephrine will do is it'll
bind onto this receptor activate the gq
protein activate this enzyme
diacetyl glycerol phospho protein
kinases will go phosphorylate particular
channels to increase calcium ion influx
or sodium ion influx
and anesthetic triphosphate will
activate what's called your smooth er or
in this case the rough endoplasm i'm
sorry the particular endoplasmic reticulum
reticulum
to activate or the sarcoplasmic
reticulum to release calcium into the
actual muscle cell the whole concept is
that i increase ions inside the muscle
cell particularly calcium i'm going to
increase the contraction of the heart
muscle cell so you guys see the clinical
response if this was norepinephrine
working on the heart muscle cell it
would increase the amount of ions
rushing into the cell stimulating its
ability to contract that's the whole
concept of its cellular response so the
cellular response for this if this was a
heart muscle
would be that it would increase
contraction do you guys get the whole
point here right so the same concept
exists for these other two components
so there was a gq protein guess what we
can actually make our lives a little bit
easier for these two there's a g
stimulatory protein and a g
inhibitory protein
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
explain this one and this one is the g
inhibitor is the exact opposite so let's
say i have another drug
this drug binds to this receptor
when it binds to this receptor the
receptor changes its shape
it then activates the g-stimulatory
protein in order for this protein to be
truly activated needs to get rid of gdp
gdp
and bind on to gtp
gtp
then when it's super activated it then
will go
move along the cell membrane and
stimulate this particular enzyme
embedded in the cell membrane which is called
called
adenylate cyclase
adenylate cyclase adenylate cyclase is a
really interesting enzyme once it's
activated it takes atp
and converts it into cyclic amp
and cyclic amp will activate a molecule
called protein kinase a what do we say
protein kinase a does
it phosphorylates things so if there's
particular channels that are on this
particular cell membrane
it may go
and phosphorylate this cell membrane and
if it phosphorylates these proteins on
the cell membrane it can either open up
the ion channel or close the ion channel
either way ions will move in or out of
the cell it'll potentially cause some
cellular response this could be
norepinephrine as well acting on a heart
muscle cell it can do both of these
concepts here but you get the point it's
going to be causing some type of a
cellular response now
with that being said
g inhibitory is just the opposite
you have a drug
it binds to this g protein coupled
receptor changes its shape
activates a g inhibitory protein
the g inhibitory protein will then
release a
gdp and bind a gtp
this g inhibitory protein will then go
and inhibit
it'll inhibit this enzyme the same
enzyme here which is adenylate cyclase
cyclase
the adenylate cyclase is supposed to
convert atp into
cyclic amp and then supposed to activate
protein kinase a
which is then supposed to do what
maybe go and phosphorylate specific
types of proteins this could be
structural proteins these could be
enzymatic proteins or functional
proteins any kind of protein you can
think of it can go
and phosphorylate
which could either inactivate or
activate the particular protein or enzyme
enzyme
in this situation with g-inhibitory
protein you inhibit adenylate cyclase
you inhibit the ability to convert atp
into cyclic amp you decrease protein
kinase a you decrease the
phosphorylation of these particular
proteins and again depending upon what
you're looking for this could produce a
particular cellular response so when a
drug interacts with a receptor to
produce a cellular response it either
can act on a ligand-gated ion channel
binding to a spot opening up the channel
closing the channel one of the two which
produces a cellular response or
it can bind to a protein that is
connected on the outside of it changes
the shape of the protein the morphology
of the protein that activates second
messenger systems to produce a cellular
response what's the last one
the last one for extracellular receptors
is what's called a tyrosine kinase
receptor it's the same concept here i
have a receptor on the out outside here
and i'm going to have a particular drug
let's just say for example i pick
something like insulin
insulin will bind to this receptor now
now
because insulin will bind to this
receptor domain what happened is in
g-protein it changed its morphology right
right
when you bind to this what it does is it
activates these like enzymes that are a
part of the receptor you see these blue
components here these are called your
tyrosine kinases and so on this kind of
receptor there's these little residues
called tyrosine residues they're little
amino acids
when insulin binds on to this receptor
the receptor kinases become activated
and what they do is
they cross phosphorylate so this
tyrosine kinase will phosphorylate
these tyrosine residues and this
tyrosine kinase will phosphorylate these
tyrosine residues
once you phosphorylate these it causes
them to have a change in their structure
once you change the structure it then
makes it easier for these guys to be
able to bind to specific types of
proteins or second messengers and when
that happens these second messengers
that you're going to activate will go
down and do the same thing
that the protein kinases or the ionosol
tile for triphosphate or all of these
other molecules cyclic amp it's going to
act like a second messenger which will
produce the cellular response so this is
an important concept so we can have
three extracellular receptor pathways
that i want you guys to remember that a
drug can work on the cell to produce a
cellular response through one
ligand-gated ion channels
two g-protein coupled receptors three
tyrosine kinase receptors now
this is particularly important that i
want you guys to remember for
ligand-gated g-protein coupled receptors
and tyrosine kinase receptors this is
for what kind of drugs here's what i
really want you to remember this is specifically
specifically for
for hydrophilic
large
drugs i want you to remember that
these drugs that are hydrophilic they're
large they're not going to be able to
move through the cell membrane and act
on different types of receptors in the
cell they're also polar they're charged
they're not going to be able to crash
through the phospholipid bilayer but if
i talk about intracellular receptors my
friend those are hydrophobic those are
small molecules those are non-polar they
can easily pass across the cell membrane
and bind to intracellular receptors
don't forget that let's talk about that
now all right so when we talk about
intracellular receptors what did i tell
you remember for intracellular receptors
this is for what kind of drugs this is
for drugs that are hydrophobic or lipid
soluble non-polar and small drugs
because of that these drugs such as
steroids nitric oxide things of that
nature so examples of this would be
something like maybe like a
corticosteroid so if someone's taking
some type of steroid of some kind
corticosteroid mineral mineral corticoid
one of those some type of steroid drug
or maybe even they contain something
like a nitric oxide molecule
these drugs are small enough or
hydrophobic enough that they can cross
right through the cell membrane
because they can cross right through the
cell membrane they can bind onto an
intracellular receptor
when they bind onto the intracellular
receptor that receptor can then
translocate into the nucleus where it'll
bind to you see these like little
turquoise proteins here that are
connected with the dna these are called
transcription factors
transcription factors obviously regulate
the degree of transcription of dna
converting dna into
rna because rna is important to be able
to make proteins
proteins so
so
if i give a particular drug that
activates this receptor intracellular
receptor then goes and translocates and
works to stimulate a transcription
factor i can then increase the
transcription process of making more rna
making more proteins to produce a
cellular response
so this is an important thing to think
about also
this pathway of intracellular receptors
takes time it may take some time to be
able to produce this response in
comparison to extracellular that's a lot
faster and more amplified so there's a
lot of amplification one drug can
activate multiple second messenger
system producing a massive clinical response
response
this you have one drug interacting with
one receptor which will take some time
for it to trigger this transcription
process protein synthesis process and
kick into high gear so that's an
important thing to remember this is a
little bit quicker but it can stay
around a lot stay around for a very very
long time this takes some time to be
able to produce a very good clinical effect
effect
all right so that's your intracellular
receptor pathways between drugs and
receptor interaction all right so when
we talk about this next concept is a
very interesting concept called
tachyphylaxis intolerance it's really
important when drug receptor interactions
interactions
so when a drug works on a receptor
whether it's an extracellular receptor
intracellular receptor and produces a
cellular response what can happen is is
when a patient is exposed to maybe a
particular dose of a drug maybe a lot of
it let's say that you give a very large
dose of a particular drug and what
happens is that drug will bind on to
many different receptors and keep trying
to stimulate the living crap out of this
cell producing a massive cellular response
response
what happens is when you produce this
massive cellular response and again
here's the key term i need you to
remember that it could come up on the
exam for tachyphylaxis is it is a rapid
type of response so a rapid response to
maybe a initial dose maybe you gave a
very a large initial dose of a drug and
it caused a very intense stimulation of
the cell
because these drugs are binding on to
many many different receptors the cell's like
like
whoa bro you're stimulating way too
intensely i got to protect myself here
so what i'm going to do is is i'm going
to desensitize myself to how much drug
is actually out there right now and so
the way it does this is very very
interesting has a couple of different mechanisms
mechanisms one
one
is it can say okay what i'm going to do
is i'm making these receptors right so
what i'm going to do is
is since i have to make these receptors
to plug them into the actual cell
membrane what i'm going to do is i'm
going to decrease the synthesis of these
receptors so this pathway is decreased
or inhibited so there's less receptors
that are actually available for the drug
to bind to so one of the ways that i can
do this is i can decrease the number of
receptors so there could be drug out
here trying to be able to produce this
clinical effect but there's no receptor
for it to bind to
the second thing that it can do which is
also pretty cool here
is they can also
work particularly to have specific
enzymes if you will maybe there are
specific types of enzymes
and what these enzymes will do is maybe
they're like kinases of some type
they'll add phosphate residues
onto this particular receptor and what
it does is it inhibits or inactivates
the receptor because you know what
happens is certain kinases what these
kinases could do is they could phosphorylate
phosphorylate
these particular receptors right and
when they phosphorylate them what it
does is it actually tags them and then a
protein called arrestin so a protein
called arrested if you just wanted to
think about it let's say i have a
protein here
and purple
once these receptors get phosphorylated
this protein called arrestin will bind
with that and basically say hey these
receptors no good inactivate them don't
let them respond to a particular drug
and then eventually they get internalized
internalized
but again we're inhibiting it so even if
the drug is present it's not going to be
able to work on the receptor because the
receptor is arrested in the phase of
inactivation pretty cool right
the third thing that this actual
receptor and drug interaction can do is
we can say okay bro
way too much stimulation what i'm going
to do is is i'm going to take this
receptor and i'm going to internalize
the receptor via an endocytosis
mechanism i'm going to bring this receptor
receptor
into the actual cell and if i bring this
receptor into the cell you won't be able
to stimulate him so therefore i down
regulate my number of receptors so i can
do three things via this process of tachyphylaxis
tachyphylaxis one
one
is i can internalize my receptors
two i can inactivate the receptors by
phosphorylating them and then having a
rest and protein bind to them the third
way is i can decrease the synthesis of
these actual receptors and the whole
purpose is trying to have a less
significant cellular response in
response to a rapid
dose a rapid response to a very high
dose of a drug very very quickly so
that's a very important thing to be able
to remember
now with tachyphylaxis the other thing
that's important to remember that
sometimes they'll ask you is between
tachyphylaxis and tolerance
if i increase the concentration of the
drug will it change the actual cellular response
response
it's important to remember that it won't
so the reason why is because i'm getting
rid of particular receptors i'm
decreasing the synthesis of the
receptors or i'm inactivating the receptors
receptors
tolerance is a little bit different tolerance
tolerance
is usually more of a
chronic response so usually just a
chronic response it's over
you know weeks for let's say just say
for example weeks
or let's even be a little bit more you
know less intense here let's say hours
days weeks whatever we can go hours
to weeks so it's way more delayed it's
not the initial dose so it's a chronic
response it's over time okay so it's
important to remember that this is
usually just repeated exposure to a drug
so repeated exposure
to a particular drug it's not like a
one-time initial rapid response this is
chronic exposure you're being exposed to
a drug constantly every single day for a
long period of time
this response develops over a decent
amount of time this doesn't happen
rapidly or initially it's usually over time
time
what happens is the same concept here
you have a drug that you're exposed to
it's basically
binding on to these particular receptors
and trying to cause this excessive
stimulation of the receptors
your cell says yo bro can't handle all
this we need to be able to change this
up a little bit it does all the same
kinds of things it says okay what i'm
going to do is i'm not going to make as
many of these particular proteins i'm
going to internalize
these actual receptor proteins so it's
going to do two things just like we did
up here above it's going to internalize
and it's also going to reduce the
synthesis of these particular proteins
right so this process is inhibited and
this process is actually going to be
also occurring
the other thing that happens is it
doesn't do this arrestin type of process
where it phosphorylates it do something
else you know that drugs
sometimes they need to be metabolized by
particular enzymes
so sometimes drugs are metabolized
especially think about alcohol
in that sense sometimes drugs need to be
metabolized by particular enzymes so
here's this enzyme here
what happens is if what if i'm exposed
to a drug and i increase the number of
enzymes so i'm going to increase the
number of metabolic enzymes that
basically works to break down that drug
and patients who have tolerance what
happens is when they're exposed to this
drug over a long period of time chronic
exposure repeated doses what we do is we
increase the number of metabolic enzymes
and what these metabolic enzymes will do
is it'll continue to keep breaking down
the drug so it'll keep breaking down the drug
drug
all right
and that'll reduce the actual efficacy
of the drug that'll reduce the response
that the actual drug can produce on the
body and so that's the whole point is
trying to be able to have a compensation
mechanism what's important to remember
though is is i can overcome the activity
of this enzyme if i over saturate the
enzyme so if i increase the number of
metabolic enzymes theoretically if i
increase the drug dosage super super
high eventually causes this enzyme to be
so saturated where they'll still be drug
left over that it won't be able to break
down and metabolize
and so one of the big things with
tolerance is that if you increase the
you can overcome
the decreased response slash effect
and that is an important concept the
reason why is
tolerance is an example of something
like opioid over opioid abuse so if a
patient is taking opioids they're
exposed to opioids chronically what
happens is that continuous opioid kind
of working on the particular cells will
cause this excessive activity of the
cells to again a diminished pain
response what will happen is particular
cells will try to develop a particular
way of metabolizing that drug a little
bit easier quickly
and because of that maybe what you have
to do is because you're metabolizing or
your receptors are becoming less
sensitive is you need to increase the
number of drug to be able to work on
these receptors or overcome the
metabolic enzymes to produce the same
clinical effect and this is a very
important concept with things like
opioid overdose or alcohol opioid abuse
alcohol abuse cocaine methamphetamines
things of that nature all right that
covers tachyphylaxis intolerance now
what i need to do is we need to say okay
we take a drug it interacts with the
particular receptor when it binds with
that receptor what's the affinity that
the receptor has between the drug so
what's the the bondage the actual
connection between them how strong is
the actual connection between the
receptor and the drug and the next thing
is what's the maximum clinical effect
that that drug receptor interaction can
produce and then we'll talk about some
other things called therapeutic index
all right my friend so now we're going
to talk about what's called the dose
response relationship so this is
actually a pretty cool concept and it's
going to be something that you'll
definitely be tested on so you have to
know this for your exam especially for
the step one
so when we talk about this we're going
to have two curves here that are going
to compare two particular components one
thing is we're going to talk about the
potency of the drug and the other things
we're going to talk about is the
efficacy of the drug and we'll have some
quick kind of clinical points in there
and the big pearls to take out of this
so on this type of graph here on the
x-axis what i want you to remember is
whenever you see these types of graphs
on your questions or on your exam on the
x-axis we're taking the concentration of
the drug or the dosage of the drug
particularly but you know on a
logarithmic scale and then on the y-axis
you're looking at the response of the
actual drug dosages therefore it's the
dose response curve or relationship now
what's really important is when we're
talking about these curves let's
actually say that we have
the same concept here so we're going to
have in black here we're going to have
we give a drug we give a particular
dosage of a drug what happens is when
you start off with the low dosage of the
drug only small amounts of drug are
going to bind on to a very little of
these receptors okay so what happens is
if you only have a little bit of drug
only binding onto a few out of the tons
of receptors that you have the clinical
response that you're going to see is
pretty minimal
and so what we'll see here is we'll see
like a pretty like flattish curve
but then what happens is as you start to
have more drug binding onto more
receptor you start seeing what you start
seeing an increase in the response
now what's really really interesting
is that as i have more and more and more
drug that's actually increasing based
upon an increase in the drug dosage
eventually all of these receptors are
going to become saturated with drug
and no matter how much more drug i give
there's not going to be enough receptors
for that drug to bind to to produce
a cellular
response so therefore
it'll plateau or remain constant that
cellular response because all of my
receptors are saturated and activated
and so because of that what we'll see is
we'll see this kind of trail off and
become flat
that's a very important concept so we
kind of say this kind of looks like an
s-shaped curve or a sigmoidal curve and
again the first component here is where
it's initially flat that again is
whenever there's very little drug
binding on to not very many receptors so
we're not producing a massive clinical response
response
phase two of it is when we're actually
seeing tons of drug binding to tons of
receptors producing a good cellular
response and the third part here is
where we have all the drugs saturating
all of the complete number of receptors
that we have
and this point here is the e-max that's
the max amount of drug that you can give
to produce the maximum response or
effect that you're looking for and so
this is an important concept now another
thing that we have to talk about here so
we're going to say let's say that this
is a hundred percent effect or response
and then somewhere in the middle here
we're going to say is about a 50
response and then here is going to be
about a zero percent response we'll see
the same thing over here on this curve
i'm just comparing potency and efficacy
so let's say same thing here i draw this
curve here just to kind of make it representative
representative
this was a little bit too much of a
slope here so let's bring that less of a slope
slope
okay so here's our sigmoidal curve same
concept here here's one so that's
whenever little of the drug is binding
to very little receptors as we increase
the concentration of the drug we start
to see again more drug binding to more
receptors and then eventually we
saturate all of those particular
receptors so that's our concept there
this should be this dose response curve
what it should look like sigmoidal
now here's what i want you to think about
about
with respect to potency of the drug what
i want you to remember terminology wise
is potency is correlational with affinity
affinity
so in other words so i want you to think potency
potency
correlational with affinity
affinity
so as i
increase the affinity i increase the
potency of the drug and this is
basically the strength so this is the strength
of drug
drug receptor
interaction
so the stronger the bond is between the
drug and the receptor the more affinity
the more potent the drug is
now if i have an actual drug and it's
binding onto this receptor and the
strength of this actual bond is very
very powerful that doesn't necessarily
produce the same efficacy okay so you
can have a drug
that has a very high potency but what is
the significance of having a drug with a
very high affinity or a high potency let
me explain
let's say here that as i what do i know
then if i have a very high affinity that
that that that drug has for the
particular receptor okay so this drug
has a very high affinity for this
receptor meaning it's very very potent
what i can do is very very cool here
is when we look at this we actually can
take into consideration something called
the ec 50 which is a measure of potency
and so the ec 50 is the concentration
of the drug so it's the concentration
of the drug that will reach 50 percent
of the max response or effect so what is
this called this is called your ec50
that is a measure of potency or affinity
so what i want you to remember is the ec
50 is basically kind of a measure of potency
potency
now why is this important because when
you guys get a graph you have to be able
to consider this okay watch
as the ec 50 increases meaning you go
towards the right the concentration of
drug that you have to give to reach 50
of the mass effect as that increases
what am i saying that i have to give
more drug to produ produce 50 of the max
effect that means the potency is doing what
what
it's decreasing i don't have a strong of
a drug receptor interaction so what i
want you to remember is is that as you
increase your ec
50 you decrease
the potency meaning that these are
inversely proportional
if i decrease my ec 50
meaning i don't require as much of a
drug concentration to be able to produce
50 percent of the max effect what does
that mean for my potency that means this
potential so because of
that we have a very very good situation
here now watch what would this curve
look like if i actually took this into
consideration where i had one situation
where i want to change the potency so
let's say i want to have a decreased
potency that means that this curve would
go which way
it means it would go this way
right because now look at where my ec50
is my ec 50
is all the way
over here
so what i see is as i see that whenever
the potency is actually decreasing what
happens to the sigmoidal curve where
does it shift shifts to the right
if i want to increase the potency let's
say that i do this in a different color here
here
this way
so my
ec50 is shifted to the left and if it's
a decrease ec50 that means a higher
potency of the drug so it's important to
be able to remember that so whenever you
see these particular curves here and
they say which one of these if i were to
say this is medication a medication b
medication c which one of these has the
d the lowest potency you'd say a b c
which one has the highest potency it
would be a so it's important to be able
to remember that concept all right
we have to now take into consideration
something called efficacy
so efficacy is actually a very
interesting concept and it's actually
dependent upon two things it's dependent
upon the drug
receptor interaction
right so basically how
many receptors
the actual drug is occupying
so if i give a drug and this drug is
occupying 100 of the receptors that
means it's probably going to have an
increased efficacy if i give a drug and
it's only occupying some of those
receptors the efficacy is going to be decreased
decreased
that's one component
the other component is the intrinsic activity
activity
intrinsic activity of the drug meaning
meaning
if this drug binds to this receptor
if this drug binds to this receptor will
produce a 100 clinical response will it
produce a 70 clinical response will it
produce a 50 of a clinical response
that's dependent upon the intrinsic
activity of the drug so some drugs are
what's called full agonists meaning that
when they bind to the receptor the
effect that they have is 100 some are
partial agonists meaning that when they
bind to the drug even if they occupy all
the receptors the effect that they will
give you is never going to be maxed it's
not going to be 100
and so that's another important concept
so when i think about efficacy it's
really determined by what what we set up
here the point when all of the receptors
are stimulated so drug receptor
interaction you have to have at least
you'd like to 100 of the receptors that
are occupied
but it's also dependent upon the
intrinsic activity so even if you had
let's say i had a cell where 100 of the
receptors are occupied
if i had 100 of their cells uh all the
receptors occupied and the intrinsic
activity of that drug was very high a
full agonist
it would give me this type of emax then
it would give me this
where my hundred percent
or my emacs the point where
all my receptors are occupied doesn't
matter if i increase the drug anymore
the maximal effect that i have will be
at this point
all the receptors are occupied
if i take a drug that has a decreased efficacy
efficacy
meaning that maybe it has less receptors
that it's bound to or meaning it has
less intrinsic activity what would it
look like while i'd expect the e-max to
come down it wouldn't shift to the right
or shift to the left they should they
could actually keep the potency about
the same so what would i see with this curve
curve
if i were to compare here
i would actually see something like this
you see how it trails off like that so
this would be
the emax
and this here the difference between
these two is the difference in efficacy
so this here is the difference in efficacy
efficacy
this here between each one of these
between this component here
and this component here is the
difference in potency
potency
so remember that if my curve is shifting
down i'm changing the efficacy if my
curve is shifting to the right or the
left i'm shifting potency but again the
same concept here exists so again if i
take this difference here between on the
y-axis this tells me my response to the
actual drug right so the max effect and
again same thing this drug a would have
the highest efficacy this drug would
have the lowest efficacy but if i even
wanted to make it even more intense i
keep the same potency but again trail
off here so my emacs is even lower so if
they were to say okay
in a question you have drug a which is
black drug blee which is pink drug c
which is going to be green which one of
these has the highest efficacy you would
say would be the top one a which one has
the lowest it'd be the green the bottom
one and so this is an important concept
to be able to understand
all right
now sometimes the question may come up
and say okay if
if
i have a particular situation where
let's say i have a drug for example a
commonly utilized one bumetanide and
furosemide those are diuretics
when you think about these the efficacy
so let's actually just put here bumetanide
bumetanide
and furosemide
be metanide and furosemide
when you think about this
bumetanide i can actually give a very
low dose
to be able to produce 50
of the max effect
so because of that if i give a very low
dose what's the potency of that drug
it's very very good it's very high
potency so in that situation bumetanide
can be more potent than furosemide
because i can give a low dose
to be able to produce 50 of the mass
effect max effect whereas with
furosemide i'd have to give a little bit
of a higher dose
so we can say that the potency of these
are different
but the literature has actually shown
that just because the potency is
different doesn't mean that the efficacy
is different
so if i actually take bumet nine
ferocity and compared them around the
same like level of actual dose
comparison with their potency i could
actually see that these do have an equal
efficacy so just because a drug has a
different potency does not mean that it
doesn't have the same efficacy so just
make sure you remember that as well
all right my friends so we talked about
efficacy we talked about potency the
last thing that we got to talk about
here for this section of dose response
is something called the therapeutic
index alright guys so now let's talk
about the therapeutic index so
therapeutics is actually a really
important thing is in terms like the
safety of the drug if you will
so what i want us to think about is same
kind of concept here we're still going
to have like this dose response curve if
you will it's just on the x-axis it's
logarithmic concentration of the dose
but instead of it being a response or
effect on the y-axis with the dose
response curve for therapeutic index we
determine a patient population so the
percentage of patient population if you
will but it's still going to be the same
dose response curve so i'm going to
start here
move up like this that's my dose
response curve same thing over here i'm
going to move up and there's my dose
response curve okay so same concept here now
now
we use that terminology where we said
okay here's 100 that's emax right and
then somewhere in the middle here we're
going to be about 50
that was the ec 50 for the dose response
curve well now we're talking about
something different okay we're talking
about the percentage of patient population
population
so remember here at about 50 percent of
the patient population just like 50
percent of the max effect that you can
produce at this drug concentration that
was called ec50 all we're doing is we're saying
saying
this is now the ed50
for therapeutic index
same thing over here here's i'm going to
bring this response curve up just a
little bit higher okay
okay
so here if we look at this
this would be our max effect or 100
percent and somewhere here in the middle
of about 50. so again here
is going to be 50 of the patient
population i'm giving this concentration
or dose of the drug now this is also
called the ed50 now let's compare ec50
was the concentration of drug that i
would give to produce 50 of the max effect
effect
the ed50 is the dose of drug that i
would give to 50 of the population to
produce the clinically desired effect
okay so let's put desired effect this is good
good
good stuff right so this is clinically
desired effect within 50 of the
population if i give this dose of the drug
drug
now what i'm gonna do is is i'm gonna be
a little evil
and i'm gonna give a toxic dose
but on one situation
the the actual toxic dose that i can give
give
to 50 of the population that actually
produces that toxic effect
is not very large so what i can say is
like let's say it's like right here
so that's my toxic dose
so this is a toxic effect
so if that's the toxic effect then right here
here
at giving 50 of the population this dose
of drug
that is my toxic dose so td50
same thing over here i'm going to give
it but now what i'm going to do is it
takes a very large dose of that drug to
give to 50 of the population to produce
the toxic effect if you will so now this
is the toxic effect
effect
and the td50 the dose that i got to give
to 50 of the population
is right here
there's my td50 now
now
the therapeutic index is the difference
between these two that is the
therapeutic index
so this is a therapeutic index which is small
small
and small therapeutic index that's a
scary situation that's not a good thing
ones with a large therapeutic index is a
good thing it's very hard to be able to
you know make a mistake with these types
of drugs giving a particular dosage you
won't kill the patient or cause a very
toxic effect so it's important to
remember that so how do we determine
therapeutic index therapeutic index is
dependent upon the td50 divided by the
ed50 so
td50 divided by ed50
so think about this in this situation
here the td50 is relatively low it's
decreased so the therapeutic index if we think
think low
low
low they're directly proportional so a
decreased td-50 and i don't have a very
i don't have to give a very large dose
to produce the toxic effect of 50 of the
population this very low td50 will give
me a very small or
or
narrow therapeutic index and this is
scary because they have high risk
of side effects or toxicity if you will
meaning let's say i take for example you
know i remember the drugs in this
category remember a guy a guy right
warning these drugs are lethal all right
so it goes guy warning
warning
these drugs are lethal
and if you like this and it helps you
remember it great it just makes me laugh
but it goes gentamicin gentamicin
gentamicin
warfarin which is a really big one
it's theothen which we probably don't
use too much anymore nowadays
for copd
digoxin good one for afib and heart failure
failure
aeds and i think one of the big ones to
remember is phenytoin
and the last last one is lithium okay
which we use for bipolar so what's
important to remember about these is
that you could give a dosage of this
drug that produces a clinically desired
effect and increasing the dose just a
little bit is a very risky situation to
put you in a toxic effect of the dose
that's why it's important whenever drugs
have a very small therapeutic index you
monitor these drugs through particular
like serum levels or labs so one of the
best ones to give an example about is warfarin
warfarin
i determine it by its inr right the
other ones i can check their levels i
can check the level of an aminoglycoside
or i can check the level of digoxin i
can check the level of phenytoin and
lithium because i want to make sure that
the concentration i have in the blood is
not too high but it with risk of toxic
effect so the margin of error for a
therapeutic index when it's small is
very very
very tiny and there's a high risk of
side effects and the opposite you
probably already know now that this is a
large therapeutic index you have to give
a very high td50 so you increase the
td50 you increase the therapeutic index
and so this is a large
therapeutic index and so because of that
there's less risk
of side effects so i could give a pretty
heavy dosage you know what a good
example of this one is uh steroids and
penicillin so good examples of this one
is penicillin g i can give like massive
amounts of penicillin g and small
amounts of penicillin g and i would have
a very difficult time being able to get
to the toxic effect of it
corticosteroids so steroids are another
one as well you can get pretty like
large doses of steroids as well and again
again
less risk of a toxic side effect so i
think this is an important really really
important concept to remember especially
for clinicals and as well as your exams
all right now let's talk about intrinsic
activity so agonist and antagonists
alright guys so now let's talk about
intrinsic activity between drug receptor
interactions this is actually a pretty
cool concept very high yield so we
should know this as well
so whenever you have a drug that binds
to a particular receptor we want to try
to in some way compare it to our
endogenous system
and so i think one of the really cool
examples to think about is let's say
that um
let's say a very common one is you have
a blood vessel and on that blood vessel
you have what's called alpha-1 receptors
so here's an alpha-1 receptor what we
know is that norepinephrine and
epinephrine are basically molecules that
will bind onto this receptor stimulate
it and trigger vasoconstriction that's the
the
response or the effect if you will of
the drug binding onto that receptor
now let's assume that there's 100
receptor binding by norepinephrine we
know that its effect is vasoconstriction
vasoconstriction
if i give a drug that also can act like norepinephrine
norepinephrine
whenever it binds on to 100 percent of
the receptors are completely saturated
with this drug and it produces the same
intensity or maximal effect 100
vasoconstriction just like
norepinephrine it's a full agonist
if i give another drug drug b
and i have it bind on to 100 of the
receptors are saturated by this other
type of agonist drug b
but it doesn't produce the same maximal
effect or efficacy
as drug a did we call that a partial agonist
agonist
and then when you have another drug drug c
c
and this binds on to the alpha-1
receptor and all it does is it keeps the
actual receptor completely inactivated
then you significantly reduce the actual
efficacy and the maximal effect of that
drug to below the basal activity of the
receptor because normally receptors have
some degree of basal activity
that degree of basal activity is about
12 percent
so no matter what if i give a particular
drug all we're doing is we're increasing
the efficacy of that drug above its
basal activity 12 percent about most
textbooks will say
so say i say a full agonist with the
first case so full agonist so for
example norepinephrine i can give a drug
just like norepinephrine norepinephrine
i can just give it exogenously so
levofed norepinephrine another agonist
would be phenylephrine or epinephrine
they both can bind onto the alpha
receptors and produce the same type of
you know maximal effect so that would be
an example of a full agonist so if i
were to give let's say these are all
alpha one receptors i could give a drug
like norepinephrine
epinephrine or i can give something
called phenylephrine okay
okay
and these will all produce the same type
of clinical response when they bind to
so 100 percent of the receptors are
bound by a drug and they produce the
clinical response the clinical effect
that they have will be the max
effect that you can produce the e max
okay so if we were to drop that off on
the curve here log mere the
concentration of the drug on the x-axis
response on the y-axis just like the
dose response curve what we're going to
see is is that there's 12 basal activity
i'm going to increase it from that point
that would be the curve at 100 max
efficacy if i give a full agonist so
remember this is a full
full
agonist it will produce the same it'll
mimic the basic endogenous system okay
a partial agonist will be something a
little bit different
so i think a really interesting example
about a partial agonist could be
something for example you know there's a
opioid receptors so let's say that this
is what's called a mu
receptor a mu receptor is a type of
opioid receptor and it loves to bind
onto something called morphine
and so what happens is
if you give something
uh like a partial agonist this is really interesting
interesting
partial agonists they'll bind on to
these receptors these mu receptors let's
just say an example of this could be
something called buprenorphine buprenorphine
and what happens is this will actually
bind onto these new receptors
if it saturates 100 of the mu receptors
it'll produce a clinical effect that is below
below
the max effect it's sub-par sub
max effect maybe like if we were to say
this is 100 this is like 70 or 60
percent but it's below the max effect
that's a partial agonist it will not
produce the max effect
but there's something really interesting
about partial agonist that i'm going to
talk about in just a second but let's
say that we graph this out in a pink so
now we have another one where we're
going to start this off beyond the basal
activity of the receptor i'll see that
as i increase the concentration of the
drug i will do what
i'm going to drop off my efficacy
because no matter what i'll never reach
max effect so this one i'm going to even
i'm going to make it a little bit more
drastic so we're going to drop this one
off even a little bit more than that so
this is going to be a partial
agonist now here's something that's
really interesting about partial agonist
partial agonists if you keep giving
higher concentrations of a partial
agonist and you give it in combination
with an agonist so for example what did
we say would bind on to the mu receptors
let's say that you give buprenorphine
and you're giving it with morphine
and let's make sure morphine is like in
a different color here let's make him in
this red color here so here's morphine
in red and then buprenorphine is going
to be in black here
if you give buprenorphine what it'll do
is it'll bind to all of these mu receptors
receptors
and basically as you increase the
concentration of it it's going to block
the actual morphine from being able to
bind into that receptors because it's
kind of in the same active site as the
buprenorphine and so that's blocking
that morpheme from being able to bind to
that actual receptor so what's really
interesting is that when you give an
agonist and a partial agonist together
this is a partial agonist
again full agonist partial agonist when
you give these together what you see is
is you see something called competitive inhibition
inhibition where
where
this buprenorphine is going to compete
with morphine for the actual mu receptor
blocking it and the only way that you're
going to be able to see the morphine
produce max effect meaning that whenever
this guy binds to the receptor it
produces the max effect is if i keep
trying to increase and increase and
increase the concentration of my
morphine to eventually displace the
buprenorphine out of that active site
that's a really interesting concept to
remember so partial agonist can also act
like antagonists
so remember that okay sometimes partial
agonists if you increase the
concentration of them they can act like
antagonists specifically competitive
antagonists all right off my soapbox
with that one
the next one that i want you guys to
think about is called inverse agonist
now inverse agonists are a little funky
they're weird ones so what happens is
these drugs will bind to the receptor
and when they bind to the receptor
they will significantly decrease the
effect of this drug like
like
less than 12 which is the basal activity
of the drug you're like what the heck so
what would i see that i would see this
that's that's my inverse agonist so for
my inverse agonist
i'm going to see this particular drug reduce
reduce
the actual effect of the um it's going
to reduce the actual maximal effects
significantly to the point where it's
less than the basal activity how the heck
heck
do you decrease the drug receptor
interaction where you go below the basal
activity you inactivate the receptor
that's what this thing does so basically
what it does is you have receptors that
can exist in two forms so let's say
here's one receptor here's another receptor
receptor
and if i want to go back and forth
between these two forms here so let's
say i want to go back and forth so this
is going to be r which let's say that
this is the active form
and then we're going to make this one
so make this r
let's make this one r prime this is the in
in
active form
what we do here is that when an inverse
agonist interacts
it tries to be able to push the reaction
and keep it in this inactive form so
what it does it tries to be able to keep
this receptor in the inactive form it
shifts this reaction to keep it
inactivated so now no other agonist will
be able to bind to it so it completely
reduces the drug receptor interaction
below the basal activity that's an
important thing to think about
inverse agonists there's not too many
drugs that you can think about for this one
one
one of them could be something like
antihistamines can act like this on the
h1h2 receptors but don't get too bogged
down in the details focus more on full
and partial
now the next thing is that sometimes we
have to talk about antagonists and what
antagonists do which we're going to talk
about next is they work to be able to
oppose the agonists and what they try to
do is they try to be able to act like a
neutral component here and so they'll
basically kind of like inhibit any type
of agonist being able to bind to the
receptor but at least allow for the
receptor to maintain basal activity and
so this will be the antagonist and
that's what we're going to talk about
next we're going to talk about
competitive and non-competitive
antagonists let's talk about that now
all right so now we're going to talk
about the same concept we talked about
agonists full agonist partial agonist
inverse agonist with antagonists
these are basically going to be working
in the opposite function of an agonist
so they're completely opposite so
take for example
um let's use this example here we had up
above we have a blood vessel has a alpha 1
1
alpha 1 receptor norepinephrine will
bind to that and cause vasoconstriction
an antagonist
to that drug
would be something that is an alpha one blocker
blocker
so i would give something like an alpha
one blocker
and that would basically bind on to this
little receptor site
inhibiting or preventing norepinephrine
from being able to exert its effect on
it therefore there would be no vasoconstriction
vasoconstriction
that is what an antagonist does is it
opposes the action of the agonist in
this case we're using norepinephrine as
an example
so how does it do this
well what happens is let's say here we
have our cell
and here's the receptor let's say we have
have
in general our agonist and we're going
to represent agonist here in black okay
so here's our agonist and what we're
going to do is we're going to give
what's called a competitive antagonist
and we'll just use this example here
here's our
neuroepinephrine which is going to bind
onto these alpha-1 receptors and then
over here i have my alpha i'm going to
put alpha blocker all right so one of
the alpha blockers you can have tons of
these dang things but an alpha blocker
of some kind right we could use
phentolamine whatever we'll just say phentolamine it's just an example of one
phentolamine it's just an example of one of these so phentolamine
what phentolamine will do is is it'll come and basically norepinephrine is
come and basically norepinephrine is supposed to bind to these receptors the
supposed to bind to these receptors the phentolamine will plug into these
phentolamine will plug into these receptors
receptors and basically block
and basically block the norepinephrine from being able to
the norepinephrine from being able to bind here so if we were to look at the
bind here so if we were to look at the normal curve let's say that we have the
normal curve let's say that we have the normal dose response curve when
normal dose response curve when norepinephrine binds to these receptors
norepinephrine binds to these receptors we know that it produces a nice
we know that it produces a nice sigmoidal curve so same thing effect you
sigmoidal curve so same thing effect you can say response it's the same concept
can say response it's the same concept this is the dose response curve i'm
this is the dose response curve i'm going to see something like this right
going to see something like this right that's my dose response curve this is a
that's my dose response curve this is a 100 max effect and this right here will
100 max effect and this right here will be somewhere around 50 max effect right
be somewhere around 50 max effect right now what i know is is that this would be
now what i know is is that this would be what would happen if neuroepinephrine
what would happen if neuroepinephrine was to bind to the actual alpha and
was to bind to the actual alpha and receptor
receptor now what i'm going to do is is i'm going
now what i'm going to do is is i'm going to give phentolamine
to give phentolamine and when i give so this is actually
and when i give so this is actually going to be my agonist if you will so
going to be my agonist if you will so this is my agonist whenever it's
this is my agonist whenever it's supposed to bind so norepinephrine what
supposed to bind so norepinephrine what i'm going to do is i'm going to give it
i'm going to do is i'm going to give it a competitive antagonist like
a competitive antagonist like phantolamine it's going to work to block
phantolamine it's going to work to block these receptors
these receptors now if there is any receptors that are
now if there is any receptors that are available norepinephrine will still bind
available norepinephrine will still bind so if there is any receptors that are
so if there is any receptors that are actually available norepinephrine will
actually available norepinephrine will bind to these and still produce some
bind to these and still produce some type of response
type of response but if i still want it to be able to
but if i still want it to be able to produce the maximum response what do i
produce the maximum response what do i have to do
have to do what i need to do is is i need to
what i need to do is is i need to increase
increase the concentration
the concentration of my norepinephrine or my agonist to
of my norepinephrine or my agonist to overcome and displace
overcome and displace the antagonist out of the active site i
the antagonist out of the active site i want to pop those
want to pop those out of the active site so that i have
out of the active site so that i have the ability to beat that guy out and
the ability to beat that guy out and bind onto these receptors and produce
bind onto these receptors and produce the same type of clinical response that
the same type of clinical response that i want
i want but in order for me to do that in the
but in order for me to do that in the presence of this antagonist i need to
presence of this antagonist i need to increase the concentration heavily
increase the concentration heavily so let's say now
so let's say now i have a new curve
i have a new curve and this new curve what am i going to
and this new curve what am i going to have to do if i need to be able to
have to do if i need to be able to produce the same clinical effect the
produce the same clinical effect the same response as an agonist would by
same response as an agonist would by itself
itself i'm going to have to
i'm going to have to increase the concentration of the drugs
increase the concentration of the drugs significantly
significantly to be able to produce the same type of
to be able to produce the same type of clinical response
clinical response and so this would be a combination of my
and so this would be a combination of my agonist
agonist and
and antagonist
antagonist and specifically which one competitive
and specifically which one competitive antagonist so what i'm seeing is is in
antagonist so what i'm seeing is is in order for me to be able to produce the
order for me to be able to produce the same kind of
same kind of maximal effect i'm going to have to do
maximal effect i'm going to have to do what to my dosage
what to my dosage increase the dosage so i have to
increase the dosage so i have to increase
increase the dosage do you guys remember off of
the dosage do you guys remember off of that curve
that curve what that looks like so remember this is
what that looks like so remember this is our e
our e max the maximal effect that this actual
max the maximal effect that this actual drug receptor interaction can perform
drug receptor interaction can perform and then at 50 percent
this was our ec 50
50 and then this was our ec 50.
and then this was our ec 50. what was happening if i increased or i
what was happening if i increased or i shifted the actual curve to the right
shifted the actual curve to the right what did that do that increased my ec 50
what did that do that increased my ec 50 what does that do to the potency then
what does that do to the potency then it decreased the potency so competitive
it decreased the potency so competitive antagonists do what to your potency they
antagonists do what to your potency they decrease your potency but what do they
decrease your potency but what do they do to the emacs
do to the emacs nothing so here's what i want you to
nothing so here's what i want you to remember
remember no change
no change in emacs
in emacs but what do they do to the ec 50 they
but what do they do to the ec 50 they decrease your ec
decrease your ec 50 which is going to do what
50 which is going to do what it's going to require if i'm sorry if
it's going to require if i'm sorry if you're actually increasing your ec50 i
you're actually increasing your ec50 i apologize if you're increasing the ec50
apologize if you're increasing the ec50 what is that doing to the potency it's
what is that doing to the potency it's decreasing the potency because these are
decreasing the potency because these are inversely proportional so we're shifting
inversely proportional so we're shifting it to the right increasing our ec 50
it to the right increasing our ec 50 which means i have to give more of the
which means i have to give more of the drug to be able to have the same type of
drug to be able to have the same type of potent effect that's what i want you to
potent effect that's what i want you to remember so for one thing for
remember so for one thing for competitive no change in e-max
competitive no change in e-max but it does decrease the potency so you
but it does decrease the potency so you have to give more of the drug to
have to give more of the drug to displace the competitive inhibitor out
displace the competitive inhibitor out of that spot so that you can produce the
of that spot so that you can produce the same type of maximal effect or clinical
same type of maximal effect or clinical response all right i hope that made
response all right i hope that made sense
sense for non-competitive antagonists it's a
for non-competitive antagonists it's a teensy bit different so let's use the
teensy bit different so let's use the same example here that we talked about
same example here that we talked about this blood vessel
this blood vessel let's say here this actually kind of
let's say here this actually kind of worked out well i didn't even think
worked out well i didn't even think about this but here you have an alpha-1
about this but here you have an alpha-1 receptor again norepinephrine's supposed
receptor again norepinephrine's supposed to bind so i'm going to give an alpha
to bind so i'm going to give an alpha blocker
blocker that's going to work to
that's going to work to basically block prevent work against the
basically block prevent work against the activity of the agonist right so we know
activity of the agonist right so we know normally if we were to give
normally if we were to give norepinephrine by itself it would look
norepinephrine by itself it would look something like this right same kind of
something like this right same kind of curve there that's our dose response
curve there that's our dose response curve this is the agonist
curve this is the agonist by itself okay just the agonist
by itself okay just the agonist now
now here is my norepinephrine
here is my norepinephrine and then down here same color here in
and then down here same color here in blue i'm going to have my
blue i'm going to have my antagonist but this is a non-competitive
antagonist but this is a non-competitive i didn't plan this but this actually
i didn't plan this but this actually worked out perfectly so another alpha
worked out perfectly so another alpha blocker so this is actually
blocker so this is actually noroepinephrine
noroepinephrine there's another alpha blocker that acts
there's another alpha blocker that acts as a non-competitive antagonist and it's
as a non-competitive antagonist and it's called phenoxybenzamine
called phenoxybenzamine benza
benza mean
mean now the difference here
now the difference here is that phentol mean bound to the actual
is that phentol mean bound to the actual active site so you see a little pocket
active site so you see a little pocket there that's called the active site the
there that's called the active site the same site
same site where the actual
where the actual agonist binds to
agonist binds to now
now phenoxybenzamine does not bind to the
phenoxybenzamine does not bind to the active site so when you have a
active site so when you have a non-competitive inhibitor like
non-competitive inhibitor like phenoxybenzamine it binds to another
phenoxybenzamine it binds to another site besides the active site so let's
site besides the active site so let's say that it binds to like right here
say that it binds to like right here binds to like right here binds to here
binds to like right here binds to here binds to here it's not the active site
binds to here it's not the active site this site here if we were to kind of
this site here if we were to kind of like let's say that we zoomed in on this
like let's say that we zoomed in on this theoretically let's say here's the
theoretically let's say here's the receptor
receptor i'm going to put a little kind of like
i'm going to put a little kind of like divot here so here's the receptor when
divot here so here's the receptor when we really zoom in on it
we really zoom in on it here's the active site that right there
here's the active site that right there is called the allosteric site so it's a
is called the allosteric site so it's a site
site on the actual protein or receptor other
on the actual protein or receptor other than the active site
than the active site when this phenoxybenzemian or
when this phenoxybenzemian or non-competitive antagonist binds to this
non-competitive antagonist binds to this it changes the shape
it changes the shape of the actual receptor to where now
of the actual receptor to where now it changes it in such a way where maybe
it changes it in such a way where maybe it's not even the same shape here
it's not even the same shape here or maybe maybe it looks like this now
or maybe maybe it looks like this now maybe it's like
and now it's going to be harder for that to be able to bind to the agonist
to be able to bind to the agonist norepinephrine
norepinephrine so because of that norepinephrine
so because of that norepinephrine wants to be able to bind here but it
wants to be able to bind here but it can't even know that there's a site
can't even know that there's a site available
available these non-competitive antagonists
these non-competitive antagonists bind to the allosteric site changing its
bind to the allosteric site changing its shape that no matter what even if i try
shape that no matter what even if i try to increase and increase and increase
to increase and increase and increase the concentration of norepinephrine it's
the concentration of norepinephrine it's not going to matter because it's going
not going to matter because it's going to have tons of active sites available
to have tons of active sites available that's not going to make a difference
that's not going to make a difference and if i increase the concentration
and if i increase the concentration it'll still have a difficult time being
it'll still have a difficult time being able to bind to the active sites
able to bind to the active sites but what i know is that no matter what i
but what i know is that no matter what i do to the concentration if i can
do to the concentration if i can increase it increase and increase it
increase it increase and increase it it's not going to be able to produce any
it's not going to be able to produce any improvement
improvement in the overall response or cellular
in the overall response or cellular effect and that's a really important
effect and that's a really important concept so the response
concept so the response i can't spell a response for the life of
i can't spell a response for the life of me the response or the clinical effect
me the response or the clinical effect is going to plummet
is going to plummet it's going to plummet even if i increase
it's going to plummet even if i increase the concentration of this dang drug or
the concentration of this dang drug or agonist it's not going to matter because
agonist it's not going to matter because this
this not non competitive inhibitor
not non competitive inhibitor phenoxy benzamine is binding to the
phenoxy benzamine is binding to the allosteric site changing its shape to no
allosteric site changing its shape to no matter what it's not going to be able to
matter what it's not going to be able to bind properly to the agonist so what
bind properly to the agonist so what would the graph look like here
would the graph look like here well i know that if with respect to
well i know that if with respect to concentration or potency that's not
concentration or potency that's not going to change it's going to stay the
going to change it's going to stay the same so if i were to look here it would
same so if i were to look here it would should look just like this i shouldn't
should look just like this i shouldn't shift the curve i'm going to do it just
shift the curve i'm going to do it just a little so you guys can see the
a little so you guys can see the difference here but what i'm going to
difference here but what i'm going to notice here is that this is
notice here is that this is son of a gun
son of a gun this is my max effect this is my emacs
this is my max effect this is my emacs so that's at a hundred percent
so that's at a hundred percent response or effect here i'm going to
response or effect here i'm going to come right in the middle about 50
come right in the middle about 50 so i know that this right here
so i know that this right here is my ec 50. they're about exactly the
is my ec 50. they're about exactly the same and that should make sense because
same and that should make sense because even if i increase the concentration of
even if i increase the concentration of my monopoly it's not going to make any
my monopoly it's not going to make any difference in the response
difference in the response there's no effect on potency with
there's no effect on potency with respect to non-competitive inhibitors
respect to non-competitive inhibitors but what i am going to see is that the
but what i am going to see is that the response the effect that it's going to
response the effect that it's going to have is going to decrease significantly
have is going to decrease significantly because the agonists can't bind to the
because the agonists can't bind to the dang active site and produce the
dang active site and produce the response it wants to because the
response it wants to because the non-competitive inhibitor changed its
non-competitive inhibitor changed its shape by binding to the allosteric site
shape by binding to the allosteric site so what will i see i'll see this thing
so what will i see i'll see this thing drop off before reaching maximal
drop off before reaching maximal response or effect so it'll drop off
response or effect so it'll drop off like this and here will be its emacs
like this and here will be its emacs this
this is the agonist
is the agonist and the
and the non-competitive
antagonist and what do i see with respect to the
and what do i see with respect to the e-max
e-max i see a decrease in the e-max if i see a
i see a decrease in the e-max if i see a decrease
decrease in the e-max
what do i know then i know that non-competitive inhibitors do what
non-competitive inhibitors do what they
they decrease the efficacy of the drugs so
decrease the efficacy of the drugs so what would they do to the ec 50 the
what would they do to the ec 50 the ec-50 will be the same no effect
ec-50 will be the same no effect no change that's one thing but the e-max
no change that's one thing but the e-max that will change you'll decrease the
that will change you'll decrease the e-max with respect to non-competitive
e-max with respect to non-competitive inhibitors the only way you can actually
inhibitors the only way you can actually prevent this and improve the efficacy is
prevent this and improve the efficacy is getting rid of the non-competitive
getting rid of the non-competitive inhibitor you increase the drug
inhibitor you increase the drug concentration trying to decrease the
concentration trying to decrease the potency is not going to affect it so
potency is not going to affect it so that's an important thing to
that's an important thing to remember all right initiatives we
remember all right initiatives we covered pharmacodynamics now let's do a
covered pharmacodynamics now let's do a couple practice problems see if we can
couple practice problems see if we can test you guys knowledge and review or
test you guys knowledge and review or your understanding now let's get to it
your understanding now let's get to it all right engineer so we finished our
all right engineer so we finished our pharmacodynamic video but now we got to
pharmacodynamic video but now we got to really put everything that we talked
really put everything that we talked about on the whiteboard to practice to
about on the whiteboard to practice to see if you guys really understand this
see if you guys really understand this okay
okay so first question here which of the
so first question here which of the following best describes how a drug that
following best describes how a drug that acts as a agonist
acts as a agonist on the gaba a receptor affects signal
on the gaba a receptor affects signal transduction in a neuron i went through
transduction in a neuron i went through this example very specifically so a gaba
this example very specifically so a gaba a receptor is an example of what kind of
a receptor is an example of what kind of receptor is it a ligand-gated type of
receptor is it a ligand-gated type of ion channel that it will act as right
ion channel that it will act as right whenever gaba-a receptors are
whenever gaba-a receptors are particularly is it a ligand-gated
particularly is it a ligand-gated is it a g-protein g-protein-coupled
is it a g-protein g-protein-coupled receptor or is it some type of tyrosine
receptor or is it some type of tyrosine kinase receptor or is it an
kinase receptor or is it an intracellular receptor i use this one as
intracellular receptor i use this one as a very specific example
a very specific example as a ligand-gated ion channel and so
as a ligand-gated ion channel and so whenever you give a agonist of the gaba
whenever you give a agonist of the gaba a receptor it'll bind onto that little
a receptor it'll bind onto that little pocket open up the channel to allow for
pocket open up the channel to allow for chloride ions to flow into the cell
chloride ions to flow into the cell decreasing the chance of generating a
decreasing the chance of generating a action potential
action potential so would it be activating the
so would it be activating the intracellular receptor process
intracellular receptor process so no
so no would it be opening up ion channels that
would it be opening up ion channels that allow sodium no would it be activation
allow sodium no would it be activation of this receptor subtype that opens up
of this receptor subtype that opens up ion channels that allow chloride to
ion channels that allow chloride to enter in
enter in yes that's likely the one or does it
yes that's likely the one or does it activate the receptor the g protein
activate the receptor the g protein remember i told you it was not a g
remember i told you it was not a g protein
protein it's not an intracellular receptor
it's not an intracellular receptor it does act as a ligand-gated ion
it does act as a ligand-gated ion channel so it is opening up for sodium
channel so it is opening up for sodium or chloride it's particularly for
or chloride it's particularly for chloride remember that example i showed
chloride remember that example i showed you on the whiteboard this was the one
you on the whiteboard this was the one and we used this kind of way of being
and we used this kind of way of being able to treat anxiety and seizures etc
able to treat anxiety and seizures etc all right next question after one
all right next question after one milligram if one milligram of lorazepam
milligram if one milligram of lorazepam produces the same anxiolytic response as
produces the same anxiolytic response as 10 milligrams
10 milligrams of diazepam
of diazepam which is correct
which is correct think about your dose response curve
think about your dose response curve so remember as we increase the dosage
so remember as we increase the dosage going towards the right
going towards the right what happens to the potency of the drug
what happens to the potency of the drug remember i have one drug here it's going
remember i have one drug here it's going to be towards the left i can give a very
to be towards the left i can give a very low dose of that drug to produce the
low dose of that drug to produce the same efficacious response
same efficacious response if i have to give a higher dosage to
if i have to give a higher dosage to produce the same efficacious anxiolytic
produce the same efficacious anxiolytic response what is happening to the
response what is happening to the potency of that drug that means the
potency of that drug that means the potency of diazepam
potency of diazepam is decreased that means i have to give a
is decreased that means i have to give a higher con a higher dose of that drug to
higher con a higher dose of that drug to be able to produce the same effect so
be able to produce the same effect so what i say lorazepam is more potent than
what i say lorazepam is more potent than in this case i would i would say that
in this case i would i would say that one milligram is definitely that
one milligram is definitely that lorazepam is more efficacious no because
lorazepam is more efficacious no because remember doses were producing the same
remember doses were producing the same anxiolytic response so the efficacy is
anxiolytic response so the efficacy is the same it's just the dosage that i
the same it's just the dosage that i have to give to change that to reach
have to give to change that to reach that efficacious response is different
that efficacious response is different so it's not b lorazepam is a full
so it's not b lorazepam is a full agonist and diazepam as a partial
agonist and diazepam as a partial agonist don't worry about that that has
agonist don't worry about that that has nothing to do with this lorazepam is a
nothing to do with this lorazepam is a better drug to take for anxiety than
better drug to take for anxiety than diazepam again has nothing to do with
diazepam again has nothing to do with this so it's either efficacy or potency
this so it's either efficacy or potency and in this case lorazepam is more
and in this case lorazepam is more potent than diazepam again remember that
potent than diazepam again remember that as you have to
as you have to increase the concentration of your drug
increase the concentration of your drug so the ec50 so that was the actual
so the ec50 so that was the actual concentration to reach 50 of the max
concentration to reach 50 of the max effect
effect as that goes more towards the right or
as that goes more towards the right or increases the potency of the drug
increases the potency of the drug decreases so that's an important concept
decreases so that's an important concept all right
all right next one here so we have 10 milligrams
next one here so we have 10 milligrams of oxycodone produces a greater
of oxycodone produces a greater analgesic response than does aspirin at
analgesic response than does aspirin at any dose which is correct so now we're
any dose which is correct so now we're looking at the response
looking at the response so the response is actually a degree of
so the response is actually a degree of efficacy of 10 milligrams of oxycodone
efficacy of 10 milligrams of oxycodone will produce a higher efficacious
will produce a higher efficacious response than compared to aspirin at any
response than compared to aspirin at any dose that means that oxycodone is more
dose that means that oxycodone is more efficacious than aspirin is because
efficacious than aspirin is because again we're looking at the response not
again we're looking at the response not the dose that we need to attain the same
the dose that we need to attain the same response so in this case it's more
response so in this case it's more efficacious for oxycodone
efficacious for oxycodone okay
okay all right in the presence of propanol
all right in the presence of propanol a higher concentration of epinephrine is
a higher concentration of epinephrine is required to elicit full anti-asthmatic
required to elicit full anti-asthmatic activity propanol has no effect on
activity propanol has no effect on asthma symptoms which is correct
asthma symptoms which is correct regarding these medications
regarding these medications so what you're trying to look at is
so what you're trying to look at is you're trying to look at particularly
you're trying to look at particularly here again for presence of propranolol a
here again for presence of propranolol a higher concentration of epinephrine is
higher concentration of epinephrine is required to elicit a full
required to elicit a full anti-asthmatic activity propanol has no
anti-asthmatic activity propanol has no effect on asthma symptoms which is
effect on asthma symptoms which is correct regarding these medications
correct regarding these medications so when you look at this we're looking
so when you look at this we're looking at now agonist and partial agonists etc
at now agonist and partial agonists etc so
so if i get propanol
if i get propanol i need to increase the concentration of
i need to increase the concentration of my epinephrine
my epinephrine to be able to reach the full antismatic
to be able to reach the full antismatic activity well epinephrine will act in
activity well epinephrine will act in this case is kind of like wanting to be
this case is kind of like wanting to be able to act as a full agonist in this
able to act as a full agonist in this situation that's what epinephrine wants
situation that's what epinephrine wants to be able to do it wants to be able to
to be able to do it wants to be able to produce bronchodilation
produce bronchodilation if you give her panel off her panel law
if you give her panel off her panel law is going to try to be able to block that
is going to try to be able to block that in a particular way
in a particular way because of that propanol since it has no
because of that propanol since it has no effect on asthma symptoms it's not
effect on asthma symptoms it's not really going to act as like you know in
really going to act as like you know in this situation here it's not really
this situation here it's not really going to work as an agonist because it
going to work as an agonist because it has no effect on asthma symptoms so
has no effect on asthma symptoms so therefore it can't act as an agonist
therefore it can't act as an agonist if that's the case then i have to
if that's the case then i have to increase the concentration of my
increase the concentration of my epinephrine to be able to reach the full
epinephrine to be able to reach the full activity that means the propanol is
activity that means the propanol is acting as a beta blocker so i'm going to
acting as a beta blocker so i'm going to have to increase the concentration of
have to increase the concentration of epinephrine to block to push him out of
epinephrine to block to push him out of that beta receptor site to produce the
that beta receptor site to produce the same effect
same effect if you remember
if you remember this diagram here this was competitive
this diagram here this was competitive antagonist non-competitive antagonist
antagonist non-competitive antagonist so if you look here for competitive
so if you look here for competitive antagonists what do we need to do to
antagonists what do we need to do to produce the same efficacious response so
produce the same efficacious response so imagine here
imagine here is just going to be epinephrine okay
is just going to be epinephrine okay here's its efficacious response this is
here's its efficacious response this is the dose that we can give if we give
the dose that we can give if we give propanol propanol is actually going to
propanol propanol is actually going to take up some of those receptors and
take up some of those receptors and block epinephrine so then what i'm going
block epinephrine so then what i'm going to have to do is increase the
to have to do is increase the concentration of my epinephrine even
concentration of my epinephrine even more so my ec50 is going to increase so
more so my ec50 is going to increase so the potency of my drug is less
the potency of my drug is less and so because of that i'm going to have
and so because of that i'm going to have to increase the concentration of
to increase the concentration of epinephrine to push some of the
epinephrine to push some of the perpendicular out to get the same
perpendicular out to get the same efficacy
efficacy so in this situation i would say
so in this situation i would say epinephrine is definitely a full agonist
epinephrine is definitely a full agonist propanol is a partial agonist no because
propanol is a partial agonist no because it has it says here propanol has no
it has it says here propanol has no effect on asthma symptoms so usually
effect on asthma symptoms so usually that means that it's an antagonist
that means that it's an antagonist so epinephrine is an agonist that is
so epinephrine is an agonist that is true and propanol is a non-competitive
true and propanol is a non-competitive antagonist no because if you look at
antagonist no because if you look at this situation
this situation even if i increase the concentration
even if i increase the concentration here
here of my actual epinephrine again it's not
of my actual epinephrine again it's not going to be able to reach the max effect
going to be able to reach the max effect so again usually with non-competitive
so again usually with non-competitive antagonists there's no change in actual
antagonists there's no change in actual potency potency changes with only
potency potency changes with only competitive antagonists efficacy changes
competitive antagonists efficacy changes with non-competitive antagonists we're
with non-competitive antagonists we're still trying to elicit the full
still trying to elicit the full antisemitic activity so in this
antisemitic activity so in this situation i would say epinephrine is the
situation i would say epinephrine is the agonist trying to produce the
agonist trying to produce the bronchodilation per panel is the
bronchodilation per panel is the competitive antagonist trying to produce
competitive antagonist trying to produce no actual benefit on asthma symptoms but
no actual benefit on asthma symptoms but if i increase the concentration of my
if i increase the concentration of my epinephrine i can beat some of the upper
epinephrine i can beat some of the upper panel out of the beta receptor site and
panel out of the beta receptor site and increase the actual efficacy of its
increase the actual efficacy of its effect but it's going to have to be at
effect but it's going to have to be at higher dosages so with this being said i
higher dosages so with this being said i would say that epinephrine is an agonist
would say that epinephrine is an agonist and propanol is a competitive antagonist
and propanol is a competitive antagonist the key thing here is here is the
the key thing here is here is the antagonist and you can tell it's an
antagonist and you can tell it's an antagonist because when it says
antagonist because when it says perpendicular has no effect on asthma
perpendicular has no effect on asthma symptoms that meaning it can't be as an
symptoms that meaning it can't be as an it can't be an agonist if you give a
it can't be an agonist if you give a drug and you're trying to look at the
drug and you're trying to look at the actual effect of that drug in this
actual effect of that drug in this situation because it has no effect
situation because it has no effect we're going to say it's more of an
we're going to say it's more of an antagonist it definitely won't have
antagonist it definitely won't have agonistic effects so it automatically
agonistic effects so it automatically gets rid of
gets rid of b then you come down to the point here
b then you come down to the point here where you're trying to look at is it a
where you're trying to look at is it a competitive and non-competitive
competitive and non-competitive antagonist well the way that we tell is
antagonist well the way that we tell is based upon the way they write this we
based upon the way they write this we know in the presence of perpendicular a
know in the presence of perpendicular a higher concentration of epinephrine is
higher concentration of epinephrine is required to produce the same efficacy
required to produce the same efficacy so efficacy is staying the same look
so efficacy is staying the same look efficacy changes here
efficacy changes here but i require a larger dosage of the
but i require a larger dosage of the drug meaning that the curve shifts to
drug meaning that the curve shifts to the right i have to increase the
the right i have to increase the concentration of my epinephrine my
concentration of my epinephrine my agonist
agonist in the presence of a competitive
in the presence of a competitive antagonist and that's why this answer is
antagonist and that's why this answer is the correct answer c
the correct answer c all right
all right let's see if we can actually test your
let's see if we can actually test your knowledge again here we go in the
knowledge again here we go in the presence of picker toxin diazepam is
presence of picker toxin diazepam is less efficacious
less efficacious at causing sedation regardless of the
at causing sedation regardless of the dose you see the way the word of that
dose you see the way the word of that picker toxin has no sedative effect
picker toxin has no sedative effect meaning it's not an agonist
meaning it's not an agonist even at the highest dose which of the
even at the highest dose which of the following is correct regarding these
following is correct regarding these agents so think about this guys
agents so think about this guys in the presence of picker toxin diazepam
in the presence of picker toxin diazepam which is going to be in this situation
which is going to be in this situation providing sedation so it's an agonist
providing sedation so it's an agonist if you give picrotoxin diazepam is less
if you give picrotoxin diazepam is less efficacious meaning that this is not
efficacious meaning that this is not going to shift to the right it shifts
going to shift to the right it shifts down efficacy is decreasing in this
down efficacy is decreasing in this situation here where you have your
situation here where you have your agonist and then the presence of an
agonist and then the presence of an agonist and some type of antagonist in
agonist and some type of antagonist in this situation picrotoxin is a
this situation picrotoxin is a non-competitive antagonist and it's
non-competitive antagonist and it's decreasing the efficacy of diazepam
decreasing the efficacy of diazepam so in this situation picker toxin is a
so in this situation picker toxin is a competitive no picker toxin a
competitive no picker toxin a non-competitive yes diazepam is less
non-competitive yes diazepam is less efficacious than has nothing to do with
efficacious than has nothing to do with it because again we're looking at
it because again we're looking at in the situation here diazepam
in the situation here diazepam is less efficacious in the presence of
is less efficacious in the presence of picker toxin not in comparison to this
picker toxin not in comparison to this because picker toxin has no effect on
because picker toxin has no effect on sedation diazepam is less potent than
sedation diazepam is less potent than pickertox and again not a comparison
pickertox and again not a comparison that we're making in this situation
that we're making in this situation picrotoxin is a non-competitive
picrotoxin is a non-competitive antagonist all right let's move on to
antagonist all right let's move on to another question here so it says here in
another question here so it says here in this question which of the following up
this question which of the following up regulates post-synaptic alpha-1
regulates post-synaptic alpha-1 adrenergic receptors
adrenergic receptors all right so daily use of amphetamine
all right so daily use of amphetamine that causes release of neural
that causes release of neural epinephrine
epinephrine okay so it's just saying if you use
okay so it's just saying if you use amphetamine basically the amphetamines
amphetamine basically the amphetamines will potentially continue to cause
will potentially continue to cause the release of norepinephrine and maybe
the release of norepinephrine and maybe that'll act on those alpha-1 adrenergic
that'll act on those alpha-1 adrenergic receptors and potentially help to
receptors and potentially help to upregulate them because of repeated
upregulate them because of repeated exposure that doesn't actually
exposure that doesn't actually completely
completely kind of go in line with this and the
kind of go in line with this and the reason why
reason why is that if a patient is using
is that if a patient is using amphetamines daily and that causes the
amphetamines daily and that causes the release of norepinephrine it'll act on
release of norepinephrine it'll act on those alpha-1 adrenergic receptors
those alpha-1 adrenergic receptors pretty consistently and they'll get kind
pretty consistently and they'll get kind of like over-stimulated and a way to
of like over-stimulated and a way to protect themselves is to regulate so i
protect themselves is to regulate so i don't think that's the correct answer
don't think that's the correct answer and being a
and being a a disease that causes an increase in the
a disease that causes an increase in the activity of norepinephrine
activity of norepinephrine neurons
neurons so in this situation here we're saying
so in this situation here we're saying some disease that causes an increase in
some disease that causes an increase in the activity of these norepinephrine
the activity of these norepinephrine neurons so it's saying that these
neurons so it's saying that these neurons are releasing more
neurons are releasing more norepinephrine consistently meaning that
norepinephrine consistently meaning that it's acting on the alpha one and or
it's acting on the alpha one and or adrenergic receptors over stimulating
adrenergic receptors over stimulating them
them if they're over stimulating them they
if they're over stimulating them they wouldn't up regulate they would
wouldn't up regulate they would potentially develop a response to down
potentially develop a response to down regulate in response to all of that so
regulate in response to all of that so that again can't be the right answer
that again can't be the right answer saying that a and b are the same thing
saying that a and b are the same thing daily use of phenylephrine an alpha one
daily use of phenylephrine an alpha one receptor agonist
receptor agonist so again this is another way of saying
so again this is another way of saying okay you have
okay you have daily use of phenylephrine it's going to
daily use of phenylephrine it's going to act on the alpha-1 receptor
act on the alpha-1 receptor overstimulate it cause it to again cause
overstimulate it cause it to again cause an increase in vasoconstriction and
an increase in vasoconstriction and again over time the cell will say this
again over time the cell will say this is too much of this type of response
is too much of this type of response can't tolerate it don't like it i'm
can't tolerate it don't like it i'm going to decrease the number of
going to decrease the number of receptors that you can't bind to me so
receptors that you can't bind to me so again it's the same as a b and c so that
again it's the same as a b and c so that leaves d so d has got to be the right
leaves d so d has got to be the right answer then right
answer then right well how would it be that answer
well how would it be that answer daily use of prasasin is an alpha 1
daily use of prasasin is an alpha 1 receptor antagonist so it's going to
receptor antagonist so it's going to bind to the alpha 1 adrenergic receptor
bind to the alpha 1 adrenergic receptor and block
and block any other drug from being able to bind
any other drug from being able to bind to it now that's kind of a problem and
to it now that's kind of a problem and the reason why is is what in certain
the reason why is is what in certain situations we maybe want to stimulate
situations we maybe want to stimulate that alpha-1 adrenergic receptor you're
that alpha-1 adrenergic receptor you're not going to be able to because you have
not going to be able to because you have a practicing bound to it
a practicing bound to it and so if you need an agonist to come
and so if you need an agonist to come and stimulate it guess what it's blocked
and stimulate it guess what it's blocked by praises in so in that situation where
by praises in so in that situation where maybe you do need to stimulate that that
maybe you do need to stimulate that that receptor guess what i'm going to have to
receptor guess what i'm going to have to kind of up regulate more risk more
kind of up regulate more risk more receptors available
receptors available for one of those agonists like
for one of those agonists like phenylephrine or norepinephrine or
phenylephrine or norepinephrine or epinephrine to bind to that's the only
epinephrine to bind to that's the only way i'm going to make more receptors so
way i'm going to make more receptors so that because of practicing binding to
that because of practicing binding to the alpha-1 receptors right now if i
the alpha-1 receptors right now if i make more receptors maybe i'll have more
make more receptors maybe i'll have more spots for the agonists like
spots for the agonists like phenylephrine and norepinephrine or
phenylephrine and norepinephrine or epinephrine to bind to so it's got to be
epinephrine to bind to so it's got to be d
d okay so up regulates because again it
okay so up regulates because again it needs receptors that are available for
needs receptors that are available for it to bind to agonists because right now
it to bind to agonists because right now let's say that right here is your alpha
let's say that right here is your alpha 1 receptor and let's pretend that these
1 receptor and let's pretend that these were not here you only have two
were not here you only have two receptors and processing down here
receptors and processing down here processing bound here
processing bound here well now you have no other receptor for
well now you have no other receptor for epinephrine norepinephrine epinephrine
epinephrine norepinephrine epinephrine to bind to so what's going to happen is
to bind to so what's going to happen is you're going to try to make more and
you're going to try to make more and more receptors that'll be open for
more receptors that'll be open for epinephrine norepinephrine or
epinephrine norepinephrine or phenylephrine to bind to to be able to
phenylephrine to bind to to be able to produce an agonistic response so that's
produce an agonistic response so that's a little concept
a little concept there okay question number nine
there okay question number nine methylphenidate helps patients with
methylphenidate helps patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder maintain attention to perform better at
maintain attention to perform better at school or at work
school or at work with an ed50 and again that's the dose
with an ed50 and again that's the dose that you want to give to
that you want to give to 50 percent of the population that would
50 percent of the population that would have an actual clinically desired effect
have an actual clinically desired effect that's 10 milligrams
that's 10 milligrams however methylfinity can also cause side
however methylfinity can also cause side effects so significant nausea at higher
effects so significant nausea at higher doses so td50 which is the dose that you
doses so td50 which is the dose that you would give to 50 of the population to
would give to 50 of the population to cause a toxic effect that's 30
cause a toxic effect that's 30 milligrams
milligrams so what is the correct
so what is the correct what is which one of the following is
what is which one of the following is correct regarding methylphenidate
correct regarding methylphenidate so in this situation i would need to
so in this situation i would need to take what
take what i would need to be able to take my
i would need to be able to take my in this situation here my td 50 and my
in this situation here my td 50 and my ed50 and plug it into a particular
ed50 and plug it into a particular equation
equation and that equation is the therapeutic
and that equation is the therapeutic index the therapeutic index is the td50
index the therapeutic index is the td50 so 30 milligrams divided by the ed50
so 30 milligrams divided by the ed50 which is 10 milligrams what does that
which is 10 milligrams what does that give me 30 divided by 10 is 3. so my
give me 30 divided by 10 is 3. so my therapeutic index is 3.
therapeutic index is 3. what that helps me to understand is
what that helps me to understand is is the range that i have
is the range that i have to basically what's the window what's my
to basically what's the window what's my margin of error
margin of error that i have so if i give 10 milligrams
that i have so if i give 10 milligrams i'll produce my desired effect
i'll produce my desired effect and at 30 milligrams i'll produce a
and at 30 milligrams i'll produce a toxic effect the kind of window where i
toxic effect the kind of window where i have a good degree of desired effect
have a good degree of desired effect before i reach a toxic effect is my
before i reach a toxic effect is my therapeutic index the narrower your
therapeutic index the narrower your therapeutic index the
therapeutic index the you know the risk of toxic adverse
you know the risk of toxic adverse effects are higher because the margin of
effects are higher because the margin of error is very very tiny with a very
error is very very tiny with a very large therapeutic index there's a very
large therapeutic index there's a very low risk of toxic side effects because
low risk of toxic side effects because the margin of error is huge you could
the margin of error is huge you could give a very large dose and still not
give a very large dose and still not produce that toxic effect so remember
produce that toxic effect so remember that relationship here but the basic
that relationship here but the basic answer to the question is that the
answer to the question is that the therapeutic index of methylphenidate is
therapeutic index of methylphenidate is three
three all right and again take that into
all right and again take that into consideration when you're talking about
consideration when you're talking about the safety of a drug all right guys
the safety of a drug all right guys let's move on to question number ten so
let's move on to question number ten so again we're going to talk a little bit
again we're going to talk a little bit about safety here so which of the
about safety here so which of the following is the correct answer
following is the correct answer concerning the safety of using warfarin
concerning the safety of using warfarin small therapeutic index versus
small therapeutic index versus penicillin with a large therapeutic
penicillin with a large therapeutic index
index so we know that with this being said
so we know that with this being said here the higher your therapeutic index
here the higher your therapeutic index right the safer the actual drug is
right the safer the actual drug is likely to be okay that's for most
likely to be okay that's for most patients but it wouldn't be for like
patients but it wouldn't be for like every single patient
every single patient okay but i'd say for most patients so
okay but i'd say for most patients so the smaller the therapeutic index more
the smaller the therapeutic index more dangerous higher the therapeutic index
dangerous higher the therapeutic index more safe but again that's not for every
more safe but again that's not for every single patient there's obviously
single patient there's obviously contingencies in that situation here
contingencies in that situation here so let's go through this answer here
so let's go through this answer here orphan is a safer drug because it has a
orphan is a safer drug because it has a low therapeutic index now we already
low therapeutic index now we already said low is dangerous
said low is dangerous um this is kind of the same situation
um this is kind of the same situation the higher the therapeutic index the
the higher the therapeutic index the high therapeutic index makes penicillin
high therapeutic index makes penicillin a safer drug for all patients i'd say
a safer drug for all patients i'd say for most patients not for all patients
for most patients not for all patients okay again
okay again not absolutely the correct answer it's
not absolutely the correct answer it's relatively close but it's not the best
relatively close but it's not the best answer here
answer here warfarin treatment has a high chance of
warfarin treatment has a high chance of resulting in dangerous adverse effects
resulting in dangerous adverse effects if bioavailability is altered
if bioavailability is altered i'd say that's yeah it's likely the
i'd say that's yeah it's likely the right answer the reason why is look at
right answer the reason why is look at warfarin it's a small therapeutic index
warfarin it's a small therapeutic index so because that has a high risk of
so because that has a high risk of dangerous adverse effects and if you
dangerous adverse effects and if you alter his bioavailability so let's say
alter his bioavailability so let's say for whatever reason
for whatever reason i don't know
i don't know you give this particular drug and in
you give this particular drug and in some way shape or form you know
some way shape or form you know you are taking something with it that
you are taking something with it that actually has the amount of the drug that
actually has the amount of the drug that usually it's supposed to be
usually it's supposed to be bioavailability a bioavailable uh
bioavailability a bioavailable uh bioavailability of that dosage is
bioavailability of that dosage is usually i'm just making it up 50
usually i'm just making it up 50 okay when you take it orally
okay when you take it orally and then afterwards you
and then afterwards you have another medication that you're
have another medication that you're taking it with you have a problem with
taking it with you have a problem with your absorption process something
your absorption process something happens where you're taking another drug
happens where you're taking another drug with it and the bioavailability of that
with it and the bioavailability of that drug the amount of drug that gets into
drug the amount of drug that gets into the systemic circulation is increase
the systemic circulation is increase from 50 to 80 percent now there's more
from 50 to 80 percent now there's more of that drug in the bloodstream and
of that drug in the bloodstream and therefore the actual toxic effect is
therefore the actual toxic effect is going to be higher easier to reach
going to be higher easier to reach so because of that i would say that this
so because of that i would say that this would be the right answer warfarin
would be the right answer warfarin definitely has a very small therapeutic
definitely has a very small therapeutic index so anything that alters its
index so anything that alters its bioavailability which can actually cause
bioavailability which can actually cause higher amounts of the drug to be in the
higher amounts of the drug to be in the circulation can definitely produce
circulation can definitely produce dangerous adverse effects so i would say
dangerous adverse effects so i would say would be b
would be b okay and again you can remember this by
okay and again you can remember this by the sad face again the drugs with a very
the sad face again the drugs with a very small therapeutic index
small therapeutic index very very dangerous side effects if it's
very very dangerous side effects if it's actually going to lead to higher
actually going to lead to higher concentrations of the drug
concentrations of the drug with this one smiley face is a large
with this one smiley face is a large therapeutic index you could give this
therapeutic index you could give this and the bioavailability wouldn't
and the bioavailability wouldn't actually be a big deal because again
actually be a big deal because again it's going to be really hard to cause
it's going to be really hard to cause adverse effects you could give it
adverse effects you could give it and even at high concentrations of the
and even at high concentrations of the drug you're still not going to produce
drug you're still not going to produce the toxic side effect you have a very
the toxic side effect you have a very larger you know range to be able to kind
larger you know range to be able to kind of give drug dosages without causing
of give drug dosages without causing that nasty toxic effect so i'd say this
that nasty toxic effect so i'd say this would definitely be the right answer
would definitely be the right answer here b
here b all right guys we went through a couple
all right guys we went through a couple examples here we went through a lot in
examples here we went through a lot in this video i hope it made sense i hope
this video i hope it made sense i hope that you guys really did enjoy it and as
that you guys really did enjoy it and as always until next time
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