Is Pharmacology Difficult Podcast NATURE & SOURCES OF DRUGS-1

Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika
Vijay. Do you have any idea about nature of drugs? Did you ever
wonder from where drugs are obtained? all these pearls of
information are stringed. in today's episode. I will start my
verbal skills with the most groundfooted basic drug origin, its
actually a chemical entity, as simple and as complex as you know
and you can imagine!first set of classification is in Organic and
Inorganic drugs with their examples. next set of classification is
on the basis of drug states like solid, liquid and gaseous drugs,
again with their examples. Next set of classification is on the
basis of molecular weight of drugs. It may range from 100-1000 D.
Too small and too large drugs have their own complications, though
I have talked about exceptions here too.Next I would be shortly
commenting upon Xenobiotics and some natural body substances
behaving like drugs specially when chemically modified into signal
molecules/chemical congeners of prototype. Next I will be opening
the pandora's box for the synthetic sources of drugs. yes, there
are broadly two major types of drug sources-Synthetic and Non
synthetic. So today's talk will be centered around synthetic ones.
Why the sources for majority of drugs has changed into laboratories
from natural plants and animals. For understanding this, I will
give you so many benefits of having drugs synthetically or semi
synthetically produced. Finally summarizing the essence of
synthetic drug production in one sentence, when chemical and
physical properties of drug change, its pharmacological activity
also changes.I will wrap it up for today with few wonderful
examples. To unravel the mysteries of more non synthetic drug
sources, you all need to be patient till next episode.... For all
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