Routes of Drug Administration

What is the definition of pharmacology?

How are drugs defined?

Which group of drugs is used for recreational purposes?

What are medicinal drugs primarily used for?

Which parenteral route of administration involves injecting medication into the spinal canal?

What does bioavailability take into account?

What factor favors drug absorption in cell membranes?

Which route of drug administration results in 100% bioavailability?

What type of drugs are able to diffuse across membranes in their uncharged state?

What is the main component of cell membranes that affects drug absorption?

Which route of drug administration is the most direct, allowing drugs to enter the bloodstream directly and act rapidly?

Why is insulin, a protein drug, not suitable for oral administration?

Which route of administration bypasses the gut and is used for drugs that must be given continuously by infusion or for drugs that damage tissues?

Why can some drugs not be administered orally?

What makes sublingual and buccal administration useful for certain drugs?

Which route of administration is inconsistent and reduces first-pass metabolism?

Why is enteral administration considered the least predictable route of drug administration?

Which discipline of pharmacology deals with the interaction of drugs with biological systems?

Which type of ligand binds and activates receptors?

What refers to the concentration of a drug needed to elicit a response?

What is the main function of antagonists in relation to receptors?

Which type of receptor is directly linked to ion channels?

What are protein molecules located in cell membranes or intracellularly that interact with endogenous ligands to produce cellular responses?

Which route of drug administration offers advantages such as higher concentration in the target tissue and fewer side effects?

What do ligands that bind but do not activate receptors and prevent agonists from doing so refer to?

Pharmacology is the study of the actions, mechanisms, uses and adverse effects of drugs.

Social drugs are only used for recreational purposes and do not include illegal substances.

Medicinal drugs are used for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of diseases.

All drugs, whether natural or synthetic, have the same physiological effect on living organisms.

Drugs are classified only according to their chemical nature.

Receptors are only located in cell membranes.

Agonists are ligands that bind but do not activate receptors.

There are five main types of receptors.

Most drugs produce their effects by interacting with specific protein receptors.

Receptors are classified as agonists or antagonists depending on their interaction with drugs.

Potency refers to the volume of a drug needed to elicit a response.

Pharmacology can be divided into two disciplines: pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.

Topical application of drugs offers advantages such as higher concentration in the target tissue and fewer side effects.

Pharmacodynamics deals with the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs in the body.

Pharmacokinetics deals with the interaction of drugs with biological systems.

Drugs can only be administered orally.

Enteral administration is the most predictable way of drug administration due to minimal metabolism in the liver and gastrointestinal tract.

Rectal administration reduces first-pass metabolism and is consistent.

Sublingual and buccal administration is not useful for drugs with a disagreeable taste or for drugs that are unstable or inactivated in the gastrointestinal tract.

Parenteral administration is the administration of drugs in a manner that involves the gut.

Insulin, a protein drug, can be administered orally due to its stability in the gastrointestinal tract.

Intravenous injection is a route of administration that bypasses absorption barriers and allows for slow drug distribution in large volumes.

Parenteral administration is not important for drugs that require continuous infusion or for drugs that damage tissues.

Enteral administration is the most predictable route due to minimal metabolism in the liver and gastrointestinal tract.

Parenteral administration is the most direct route, allowing drugs to enter the bloodstream directly, bypass absorption barriers, and act rapidly.

Parenteral administration can be used for drugs that cannot be administered orally due to stability, inactivation, or uncertain absorption.

Parenteral administration is important for drugs that require continuous infusion or for drugs that damage tissues.

Rectal administration is a consistent route that reduces first-pass metabolism.

Parenteral routes of administration include subcutaneous, intramuscular, epidural, or intrathecal injections, as well as transdermal patches.

The bioavailability of a drug after intravenous injection is 100%.

The absorption of a drug is usually proportional to its lipid solubility.

Most drugs are small molecules that are able to diffuse across membranes in their charged state.

The pH of the environment and the pKa value of the drug are not important in determining the fraction of the unionized form that is in solution and able to diffuse across cell membranes.

Drug absorption is not affected by physiochemical factors.

Cell membranes are composed of lipid bilayers.

Drug absorption will be affected by both physiochemical and physiological factors.

The size of a drug molecule does not affect its absorption.

The intrathecal route of administration involves injecting medication into the spinal canal.

Transdermal patches allow drugs to enter the bloodstream directly.

Bioavailability takes into account both absorption and metabolism and describes the proportion of the drug that passes into the systemic circulation.