Drug X produces maximal contraction of cardiac muscle in a manner similar to epinephrine (adrenaline). Drug X is considered to be a(n)

agonist

You are reviewing the data from several meta-analysis that addressed the most common causes of adverse or otherwise excessive effects of prescription drugs in young adults and in elderly (>60 yeares of age).Interactions between multiple drugs were not considered. Which variable would you find to be decreased, and be the most common general cause of these problems, in the elders

renal function/clearance

To the phenomena developing after repeated administration of medical substances is all, except

idiosyncrasy

Of the following characteristics, which is unlikely to be associated with the process of facilitated diffusion of drugs

the drug crosses the membrane against a concentration gradient and the process requires cellular energy

Drug products have many types of names. Of the following types of names that are applied to drugs, that one that is the official name and refers only to that drug and not to a particular product is the

original name

Idiosyncratic reaction of a drug is

unpredictable, inherent, qualitatively abnormal reaction to a drug

If two drugs with the same effect, taken together, produce an effect that is equal in magnitude to the sum of the effects of the drugs given individually, it is called as

additive effect