NURS 251 Portage Learning Pharmacology
Module 7 Exam comprehensive questions |
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The study of how chemicals and Pharmacology
biological systems interact
Where all is Pharmacology included? Toxicology, Food sciences, agriculture, and
medicine
What are the three main sources of Natural Sources
drugs today? Chemical Synthesis
Biotechnology
From the roots of belladonna plant Atropine
From the leavew of the purple Digitalis
foxglove
From the seeds of the opium poppy Morphine
What category drug is Atropine Anticholinergic
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What category drug is Cocaine Local Anesthetic
What category drug is Digoxin Cardiac Agent
What category drug is Ephedrine Sympathomimetic
What category drug is Morphine Analgesic
What category drug is Papaverine Smooth Muscle Relaxant
What category drug is Pilocarpine Paraymphathomimetic
What Plant produces Atropine Atropa Belladonna
What Plant produces Cocaine Erythroxylum Coca
What Plant produces Digoxin Digitalis Purpurea
What Plant produces Ephedrine Ephedra Sinica
What Plant produces Morphine Papaver Somniferum
What Plant produces Papaverine Papaver Somniferum
What plant produces Pilocarpine Pilocarpus Jaborandi
What drug is used to treat Breast Paclitaxel (Taxol)
Cancer?
What is Paclitaxel (Taxol) derived Taxus baccata
from?
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What do animals provide to drugs? Hormones
Drugs derived from Hogs/Pigs Porcine
Drugs derived from cattle Bovine
Minerals contained in some drugs Calcium
Magnesium
Silver Salts
Two antacids that contain Calcium Tums and Mylanta
and Magnesium Hydroxides.
Antimicrobial agent used in dressings Silver Sulfadiazine (Silvadene)
for burn patients that contain silver
salts
Drugs that are synthesized from Synthetic Drug
laboratory chemicals
Drugs that start with a natural Semisynthetic Drugs
substance that is extracted, purified,
and altered by chemical processes
What is an example of a Synthetic Meperidine (Demerol)
Drug.
What is an example of a Amoxicillin
semisynthetic drug?
Used to refer to the concepts of Biotechnology
genetic engineering and
recombinant DNA technology.
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