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Homework is to be presented as a short (50-100-word) paragraph response for each question. The assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document electronically to the instructor.
Question 1: Which dosage forms are most appropriate for administering drugs to pediatric patients? Adults?
Question 2: What are the processes involved in disintegration and dissolution?
Question 3: Give a definition of pharmacokinetics.
Question 4: Examine the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, and explain why they occur in this order.
Question 5: What determines the absorption ability of a drug?
Question 6: Give a definition of the term pharmacodynamics.
Question 7: Compare the different ways drugs can interact with the body, depending on their mechanism of action.
Question 8: What relationship is there between drug response relationships, serum-concentration profile, and drug manufacturing?
Question 9: How does an adverse effect of a drug occur? What are the causes of some drug-drug interactions?