TOX 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diethyl Ether, Hydrophile, Horse Length

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14 Sep 2018
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Toxicokinetics = determination of the time course of disposition (adme) of xenobiotics in the body (cid:862)what the (cid:271)od(cid:455) does to the (cid:454)e(cid:374)o(cid:271)ioti(cid:272)(cid:863) Determines the concentrations (dose) of xenobiotic at its site(s) of action, and thus is linked to the intensity of biological effect. *most xenobiotics have to enter the bloodstream to be distributed throughout the body. The lipophilicity (lipid solubility) of a xenobiotic is the most important factor allowing it to diffuse across cell membranes. Size and charge of a molecule are also very important. Octanol:water partition coefficient (kow: water is polar, octanol is lipophic, ddt: log(kow) = 6 means that 1 water: 1,000,000 ddt. **beware of chemicals with kow > 5: weak organic acids and bases, many pesticides and drugs are weak organic acids and bases, filtration (bulk flow) = diffuse through cell junctions. For example: glomerulus pores ~70 nm, most cells ~4 nm, brain ~ 0 nm (blood-brain barrier, active transport = atp-requiring transport against concentration gradient.

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