BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Small Intestine, Benadryl, Capsaicin

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Each of these barriers removes some of the drug. Most drugs will have to move through the digestive system. Small intestine: drugs absorbed in the small intestine, survive digestive enzymes, be able to move from strong acid environment to neutral environment, drugs pass through intestinal cells. Molecules have to pass through the membranes oil like environment. Engineer a molecule with every type of chemical property possible to get into the body. Liver: processes all of the food that we eat, food is full of poisons, transforms the drugs into something that is easily removed. Whole series of barriers you have to get the drug through. Not all of the dose is going make it into the body. Interaction: sticks to biological substances like proteins that interact with the drug, at a low concentration molecules won"t stick, only at a high concentration.

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