CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Wyeth, Atorvastatin, Thomas George Roddick

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Chemistry of drugs: lecture 1 history of drugs. Urine analysis: gcms (gas chromatography mass spectroscopy) Guinea worm disease (a flea carries nematode larvae) leprosy (hansen"s disease: water containing water fleas infected with worm larvae, worms move through body and come through skin, solution: filtered water. Chagas disease (assassin bugs: parasite, symptoms come after 10-20 years: fever, swelling, delivered from feces of the animal/bug trypanosome cruzi controlled by molecule that suppresses a cysteine protease crucial for this parasite (k777) Sedatives: librium and valium needed with fungal agent. A drug is a chemical agent that affects living matter. Sumerians 2,200 bc: 16 beer recipes: focused on plant materials, tried to exclude superstition. Baldness cured by fat of snake, lion, hippo. Night blindness cured by ox liver (vitamin a) Crying babies cured by poppy juice and excremental flies. Testing fda clinical trials are the gold standard . The placebo effect/response: what people respond to.

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