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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Introduction}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\{\{nobreak\}\} Founded by German Professor Rudolf Buchheim (1820 - 1879)} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{He introduced 2 important prinicples: \{\{nl\}\} - The natural system of drug classification based on their mode of action \{\{nl\}\} - experimental pharmacology} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Milestones}} \{\{nl\}\} - 1806: Morphine \{\{nl\}\} - 1908: Sulfanilamide (first-antibacterial) \{\{nl\}\} - 1912: Phenobarbital (first ant-epileptic) \{\{nl\}\} - 1921: Insulin \{\{nl\}\} 1956: Tolbutamide (first oral anti-hyperglycemic) \{\{nl\}\} - 1957: Propanolol (first Beta blocker) \{\{nl\}\} - 1961: L-DOPA (Parkinson's disease) \{\{nl\}\} - 1975: ACE inhibitors (first-line for HTN)} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 8) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Pharmacology before 19\textasciicircum{}th\textasciicircum{} Century}} & - Made at home, by apothecary, by unregulated commercial interests \{\{nl\}\} - marketed w/o evidence or understanding \{\{nl\}\} - Spiritual-based healing was popular and successful \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 9) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Pharmacology in the 21\textasciicircum{}st\textasciicircum{} Century}} & - Emphasis on molecules and cells as targets vs tissues, organs, and whole animals \{\{nl\}\} Human Genome Project (individualized medicine) \{\{nl\}\} - Drugs designed around a disease specific target \{\{nl\}\} - Examines interactions b/w drugs \& living organisms \tn % Row Count 36 (+ 13) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Introduction (cont)}} \tn % Row 5 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Definitions}} \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Pharmacology}}: Scientific discipline that investigates the interactions b/w living organisms and 'drugs' \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Drug}}: Chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease. \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Pharmacokinetics}}: what the body does to drugs \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Pharmacodynamics}}: what the drugs do to the body \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Molecular Pharmacology}}: experimental pharmacology \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Clinical Pharmacology}}: science of using drugs in humans (clinical research), based on lab studies, seeks to understand how a drug should be used in practice \{\{nl\}\} - {\emph{Pharmacogenetics}}: why people respond to drugs differently} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 13) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\} {\bf{Drug Classification}} \{\{nl\}\} - Anatomical \{\{nl\}\} - Therapeutic use \{\{nl\}\} - Pharmacological mechanism \{\{nl\}\} - Chemical group \{\{nl\}\} - Chemical substance & {\bf{Drug Nomenclature}} \{\{nl\}\} - Chemical name \{\{nl\}\} - Generic name \{\{nl\}\} - Brand name \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 9) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Physical Nature of Drugs}} \{\{nl\}\} - Pills are mainly inactive ingredients which help with the admin. of active ingredients \{\{nl\}\} - When molecules are very big they cannot be absorbed very well orally bc they cannot pass through the lipid bilayers \{\{nl\}\} - There may be different isotopes of drugs. Not all isotopes will be effective (D- form vs. L-form)} \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4977 cm} p{0.4977 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Pharmacodynamics}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Drug Targets}} \{\{nl\}\} - Receptors \{\{nl\}\} - Enzymes \{\{nl\}\} - Carrier Molecules \{\{nl\}\} - Voltage-gated ion channels} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Receptors}} \{\{nl\}\} - {\bf{{\emph{Ionotropic}}}}: ion channel receptors, ions flow into the neuron, {\bf{mediates fast transmission}} \{\{nl\}\} ~ ~ - Eg: cholinergic (nicotinic), GABAa \{\{nl\}\} - {\bf{{\emph{Metabotropic}}}}: G protein coupled (secondary messengers), {\bf{mediates slow transmission}}, change enzyme activity, protein expression, open slow ion channels \{\{nl\}\} ~~ - Eg: adrenergic, cholinergic (muscarinic), GABAb} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 9) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Secondary Messengers}}: intracellular compounds that help to transduce ligand-binding to a physiological or pharmacological effect (cAMP, cGMP, PKA, PDE, Ca\textasciicircum{}2+\textasciicircum{}) \{\{nl\}\}~~~- Ligands or agonists are considered 'first messengers'} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}