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Pharmacokunetic &dymamics
Pharmacokunetic &dymamics
By
Tamiru.T(Asistant Professor)
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Outline
Principles of pharmacology
Pharmacokinetics
pharmacodynamics of IVAA
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WHAT IS DRUGS
• A substance used as a medicine for the
treatment of disease.
• A substance taken because of its biologically
active properties . Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol,
cannabis, heroin and cocaine.
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Definitions
• Pharmacokinetics
The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed,
metabolized and eliminated by the body
• Pharmacodynamics
The interactions of a drug and the receptors
responsible for its action in the body
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Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
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Why we Study PK and PD?
• Individualize patient drug therapy
• Absorption
• Distribution
• Degradation
• Excretion
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Absorption
Rectal
Inhalational
Transdermal
Transmucosal
Subcutaneous
intramuscular
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intravenous
Absorption
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Drug absorption is influenced by…
By the physical characteristics of the drug
o Solubility
o pKa, Ph
o Diluents
o Binders
o Formulation)
Dose
Site of absorption gut, lung, skin, muscle)
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Slow Absorption
• Orally (swallowed)
• Topical/Transdermal
(through skin)
• Rectally (suppository)
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Faster Absorption
• Parenterally (injection)
o Intravenous (IV)
o Intramuscular (IM)
o Subcutaneous (SC)
o Intraperitoneal (IP)
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Oral drug administration
convenient
inexpensive
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Cont..
• Non-ionized (uncharged) drugs are more readily absorbed than
ionized (charged) forms.
• Acidic environment (stomach) favors the absorption of acidic drugs
(A – + H+ → AH).
• A more alkaline environment (intestine) favors basic drugs (BH+ →
H+ + B).
• Most drugs are largely absorbed from the intestine rather than the
stomach
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General Principle
.The faster the absorption, the quicker the
Onset and the shorter the duration
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Drug solubility
• Water-soluble
Ionized (have electrical charge)
Crosses through pores in capillaries, but not cell membranes
• Lipid(fat)-soluble
Non-ionized (no electrical charge)
Crosses pores, cell membranes, blood-brain-barrier
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Dissociation constant or pKa
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Bioavailability
Is the fraction of administered dose reaching the systemic
circulation.
Nitroglycerin is well absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract
but has low bioavailability when administered orally.
The reason is nitroglycerin undergoes extensive first-pass
hepatic metabolism
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Cont.…
• All venous drainage from the stomach and small intestine flows to
the liver.
• Bioavailability of highly metabolized drugs may be significantly
reduced by first-pass hepatic metabolism.
• Sublingual or buccal drug absorption bypasses the liver and first-
pass metabolism due to venous drainage in to superior vena cava
• Rectal administration partly bypasses the portal system
• It is an alternative route in small children or patients who are
unable to tolerate oral ingestion.
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Parenteral routes of drug administration
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Distribution
• Membrane permeability
– cross membranes to site of action
• Plasma protein binding
– bound drugs do not cross membranes
– malnutrition = albumin = free drug
• Lipophilicity of drug
– lipophilic drugs accumulate in adipose tissue
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Cont.…
• less well perfused tissues such as fat and skin may have
enormous capacity to absorb lipophilic drugs, resulting in a large
reservoir of drug following long infusions.
• Drug molecules obey the law of mass action.
• When the plasma concentration exceeds the concentration in
tissue, the drug moves from the plasma into tissue.
• When the plasma concentration is less than the concentration in
tissue, the drug moves from the tissue back to plasm
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Cont.…
• Distribution is a major determinant of endorgan drug
concentration.
• The rate of rise in drug concentration in an organ is determined by
that organ’s perfusion and the relative drug solubility in the organ
compared with blood.
• The equilibrium concentration in an organ relative to blood
depends only on the relative solubility of the drug in the organ
relative to blood, unless the organ is capable of metabolizing the
drug.
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Cont..
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Cont.…
• If the drug is highly bound in plasma and has few binding
sites in the tissue, then transfer of a small amount of drug
may be enough to bring the free drug concentration into
equilibrium between blood and tissue.
tissue uptake.
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Cont.…
• Kidney disease, liver disease, chronic congestive heart
failure, and malignancies decrease albumin production.
• Trauma , infection, myocardial infarction, and chronic
pain increase AAG levels.
• Pregnancy is associated with reduced AAG
concentrations.
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Cont..
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Cont.….
• The redistribution phase (for each tissue) follows this moment of
equilibration.
• This return of drug back to the plasma slows the rate of decline
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Cont.…
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Cont…
• The central compartment may be thought of as including the
blood and any ultra-rapidly equilibrating tissues such as the
lungs.
• The peripheral compartment is composed of the other body
tissues.
• For drugs with two peripheral compartments, the rapidly
equilibrating compartment comprises the organs and muscles,
while the slowly equilibrating compartment roughly represents
distribution of the drug into fat and skin.
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Cont.…
• Vessel-rich organ 10 % of body mass but take 75% of CO
o Brain and heart
o Endocrine gland
o Ligament
o cartilage
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Biotransformation
• Is the chemical process by which the drug molecule is altered
in the body.
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Metabolism
• Drugs and toxins are seen as foreign to patients bodies
• Drugs can undergo metabolism in the lungs, blood, and
liver
• Body works to convert drugs to less active forms and
increase water solubility to enhance elimination
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Metabolism
• Liver - primary route of drug metabolism
• Liver may be used to convert pro-drugs
(inactive) to an active state
• Types of reactions
– Phase I (Cytochrome P450 system)
– Phase II
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Phase I reactions
• Cytochrome P450 system
• Located within the endoplasmic reticulum of
hepatocytes
• Through electron transport chain, a drug bound to the
CYP450 system undergoes oxidation or reduction
• Enzyme induction
• Drug interactions
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Phase I reactions types
• Hydrolysis
• Oxidation
• Reduction
• Demethylation
• Methylation
• Alcohol dehydrogenase metabolism
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Phase II reactions
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Excretion
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Excretion
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Cont..
• Small unbound drugs freely pass from plasma into the glomerular
filtrate.
urine.
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The kidney actively secretes some
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Cont..
• Many drugs and drug metabolites pass from the liver into the intestine
• Some drugs excreted into the bile are then reabsorbed in the intestine
glucuronide.
• Kidneys
– Traps water-soluble (ionized)
compounds for elimination via urine
(primarily), feces, air, sweat
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Excretion
• Pulmonary = expired in the air
• Bile = excreted in feces
– enterohepatic circulation
• Renal
– glomerular filtration
– tubular reabsorption
– tubular secretion
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Excretion: Other routes
• Lungs
alcohol breath
• Breast milk
acidic ---> ion traps alkaloids
alcohol: same concentration as blood
antibiotics
• Also bile, skin, saliva
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cont.
• Half-life:
Plasma half-life: Time it takes for plasma concentration of a
drug to drop to 50% of initial level.
Whole body half-life: Time it takes to eliminate half of the
body content of a drug.
– Factors affecting half-life
o age
o renal excretion
o liver metabolism
o protein binding
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Cont.…
• If every molecule of drug that enters the liver is metabolized,
then hepatic clearance will equal liver blood flow
• For most drugs, only a fraction of the drug that enters the
liver is removed.
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Cont..
dependent clearance.
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Linear Pharmacokinetics
• Linear = rate of elimination
120
is proportional to amount 100
of drug present
concentration
80
60
• Dosage increases result in 40
proportional increase in 20
0
plasma drug levels
dose
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Loading Doses
• Loading doses allow
rapid achievement of 40
therapeutic serum 35
levels 30
• Same loading dose 25 w/ bolus
used regardless of 20
w/o
metabolism/eliminatio 15 bolus
n dysfunction 10
5
0
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Nonlinear Pharmacokinetics
• Nonlinear = rate of elimination
is constant regardless of 50
45
amount of drug present 40
35
concentration
• Dosage increases saturate 30
25
binding sites and result in non- 20
15
proportional 10
5
increase/decrease in drug 0
levels dose
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Special Patient Populations
• Renal Disease: same hepatic metabolism, same/increased
volume of distribution and prolonged elimination
dosing interval
• Hepatic Disease: same renal elimination, same/increased
volume of distribution, slower rate of enzyme metabolism
dosage, dosing interval
• Cystic Fibrosis Patients: increased metabolism/
elimination, and larger volume of distribution dosage,
dosage interval
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Compartment Models
• Reading assignment??
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PHARMACODYNAMICS
• Is the study of how drugs affect the body, involves the concepts of
receptor binding.
response relationship
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Exposure–Response Relationships
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Exposure–Response Relationships
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What Are The Common Drug Targets?
• Most common targets are body proteins:
• Receptors: Can alter transmitter signaling
• Example: Using risperidone to block dopamine
receptors in schizophrenic patients
• Enzymes: Can alter transmitter synthesis
• Example: Using L-DOPA, a substrate for DOPA
decarboxylase, to increase dopamine synthesis in the
brains of patients with Parkinson’s
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Disease 65
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Drug Targets (con’t)
• Transporters: Can alter transmitter inactivation
• Example: Using fluoxetine (Prozac) to inhibit
serotonin reuptake in depressed patients
• Ion Channels: Can alter neuronal excitability
• Example: Using phenytoin to block sodium
channels in epileptic patients
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Modes of Action
• Agonism • Antagonism
– A compound that does the – A compound inhibits an
job of a natural substance. enzyme from doing its job.
– Does not effect the rate of – Slows down an
an enzyme catalyzed enzymatically catalyzed
reaction. reaction.
• Up/down regulation
– Tolerance/sensitivity at the
cellular level may be due to
a change in # of receptors
(without the appropriate
subunit) due to changes in
stimulation
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Drug Effectiveness
• Dose-response (DR) curve
100
% subjects 50
ED50
0
0 X
DRUG DOSE
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Therapeutic Index
ED50 LD50
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Potency
• Relative strength of response for a given dose
– Effective concentration (EC50) is the concentration of an agonist needed to
elicit half of the maximum biological response of the agonist
– The potency of an agonist is inversely related to its EC50 value
• D-R curve shifts left with greater potency
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Efficacy
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Tolerance
(desensitization)
Hi
Drug B
Response
Drug A
Lo
Time
The condition in which repeated administration of a drug may produce effects
that are more pronounced than those produced by the first dose.
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Additive Effects
Hi
A+ B
Response
A B
Lo
Time
The effect of two chemicals is equal to the sum of the effect of the two
chemicals taken separately, eg., aspirin and motrin.
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Synergistic Effects
A+ B
Hi
Response
A B
Lo
Time
The effect of two chemicals taken together is greater than the sum of their
separate effect at the same doses, e.g., alcohol and other drugs
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Antagonistic Effects
Hi
A+ B
Response
A B
Lo
Time
The effect of two chemicals taken together is less than the sum of their separate
effect at the same doses
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cont
• Affinity
– propensity of a drug to bind with a receptor
• Selectivity
– specific affinity for certain receptors
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Effect of Disease on Drug Disposition
• Absorption
– PO/NG administered drugs may have altered absorption due
to:
• Alterations in pH
• Edema of GI mucosa
• Delayed or enhanced gastric emptying
• Alterations in blood flow
• Presence of an ileus
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Effect of Disease on Drug Disposition
• Drug distribution may be affected:
– Altered organ perfusion due to hemodynamic changes
• May effect delivery to site of action, site of metabolism and
site of elimination
• Inflammation and changes in capillary permeability may
enhance delivery of drug to a site
– Hypoxemia affecting organ function
• Altered hepatic function and drug metabolism
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Effect of Disease on Drug Disposition
– Alterations in protein synthesis
• If serum albumin and other protein levels are low, there
is altered Vd of free fraction of drugs that typically are
highly protein bound therefore a higher free
concentration of drug
– Substrate deficiencies
• Exhaustion of stores
• Metabolic stress
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Effect of Disease on PD
• Up regulation of receptors
• Down regulation of receptors
– Decreased number of drug receptors
• Altered endogenous production of a substance may
affect the receptors
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REMEMBER
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Any question ?
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