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Pharmacokinetics

Pharmacokinetics. Objectives. At the end of this sessions students should be able to: List and discuss common routes of drug administration Explain the absorption pattern of common routes of drug administration. Describe various dosage forms and their absorption pattern

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Pharmacokinetics

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  1. Pharmacokinetics Prof. Mazen Qato

  2. Objectives At the end of this sessions students should be able to: • List and discuss common routes of drug administration • Explain the absorption pattern of common routes of drug administration. • Describe various dosage forms and their absorption pattern • Discuss noveldrugdelivery systems like transdermal drug delivery etc…

  3. PHARMACOKINETICS • The quantitative study of drug movement in, through and out of the body(Effect of Body on Drug, fate of drug). • Pharmacokinetic processes include • Absorption of drug • Distribution of drug • Metabolism of drug • Excretion of drug

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  5. Pharmacokinetics is significant for • Route of drug administration • Dose of drug • Latency of onset • Time of peak action • Duration of action • Frequency of drug administration

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  8. Routes of drug administration Factors governing choice of route • Physical and chemical properties of drug • Site of desired action • Rate and extent of absorption of drug from different routes • Effect of digestive juices and first pass metabolism. • Rapidity with which the response is desired • Condition of the patient

  9. PHARMACOKINETICS IIDRUG ABSORPTION Prof. Mazen Qato

  10. Objectives • Discuss factors affecting drug absorption • Emphasize factors influencing bioavailability and bioequivalence • Explain the concept of Henderson Hasselbach equation.

  11. DRUG ABSORPTION Absorption is the movement of drug from its site of administration into the blood stream. Factors affecting drug absorption: • Aqueous solubility(transport across membrane) • Effect of pH • Area of absorbing surface • Vascularity of the absorbing surface • Route of administration

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  16. Pharmacological implications of Henderson Hasselbach’s equation: Most drugs are weak electrolytes, that is, their ionization is pH dependant. • Weakly acidic drugs which form salts with cations ( example: sodium phenobarbitone, sodium sulphadiazine ,potassium penicillin V) ionise more at alkaline pH.

  17. Weakly basic drugs which form salts with anions(example: atropine sulphate, ephedrine hydrochloride, chloroquine phosphate) ionize more at acidic ph. • Ions being lipid insoluble do not diffuse across a biological membrane. • Acidic drug example aspirin(pKa =3.5) are largely unionized at acidic gastric pH and are absorbed from the stomach.

  18. Basic drugs like atropine(pKa =10) are largely unionized and absorbed only when they reach small intestine. • Acidic drug are ionized more in alkaline urine – do not diffuse in the kidney and are excreted faster. Accordingly, basic drugs are excreted faster if urine is acidified. This principle is used in treatment of drug overdose.

  19. Bioavailability • It is a measure of the fraction of administered dose of a drug that reaches the systemic circulation in the unchanged form. • Bioavailability of a drug injected intravenously(IV) is 100%. • Calculated from comparing plasma level of a drug after a particular route of administration with plasma drug level achieved by IV injection.

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  21. Factors that influence bioavailability of a drug • First pass hepatic metabolism • Solubility of a drug • Chemical stability • Nature of drug formulation. Bioavailibility variation assumes practical significance for drugs with low safety margin (digoxin) or where dosage needs precise control.

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