16 Questions
What is the study of the biological effects of drugs called?
Pharmacology
Which phase of drug action involves the concepts of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion?
Pharmacokinetic phase
What is the term for any substance that brings about a change in biologic processes through its chemical actions?
Drug
Which phase of drug action includes concepts of agonism/antagonism and receptor types?
Pharmacodynamic phase
Which pathway affects bioavailability and drug delivery?
Administration pathway
What is the term for the way to handle significant adverse drug reactions, drug toxicity, and drug interactions?
Pharmacovigilance
What is the main focus of pharmacotherapeutics?
The consideration of dose, duration of therapy, and side effects of drug treatment
What does toxicology primarily deal with?
The actions, detection, and treatment of poisons
Which area of study in pharmacology is concerned with variation in drug response due to genetics?
Pharmacogenetics
What are Over The Counter (OTC) Drugs?
Drugs that do not require a prescription from a healthcare professional
What does Drug Mechanism of Action refer to?
The mechanism by which the drug achieves its clinical benefit
What does Drug Contraindications indicate?
Who should not take the medication or whom should be concerned when taking the medication
What is Drug Indication related to?
(i.e., cure/treatment) in certain disease/s
What does Drug Dose refer to?
(e.g., 5 mg tablet twice daily for 7 days)
'Biologicals' represent proteins that are commercially produced using:
(e.g., recombinant DNA technology)
'Pharmacogenomics' is the application of genome science to the study of:
(genomics) to the study of human variability in drug response
Test your knowledge on the introduction to pharmacology, with a focus on drug administration pathways, bioavailability, drug delivery, drug development stages, and drug nomenclature.
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