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Developing new drugs 2 OALH

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Do Now
Question 1
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1. Name the plant from which the heart drug digitalis comes.

Question 2
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2. Name the organism from which the antibiotic penicillin comes.

Question 3
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3. What process allows bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics?

Question 4
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4. Name the container shown at right.

Question 5
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5. Calculate the magnification, when a cell that has a diameter of 10µm is measured at 500mm on a microscope.

Question 6
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Describe the process of phagocytosis

Key Knowledge
Question 7
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What 3 things are tested for in pre-clinical and clinical trials?

Question 8
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What is the medicine tested on in pre-clinical trials?

Question 9
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What is the medicine tested on in clinical trials?

Question 10
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What are double-blind trials?

Question 11
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How is the validity of all scientific data judged?

Recall Quiz
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Question 15
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Question 16
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We do: In 2020 the coronavirus killed became a global pandemic. Drug companies have developed a new drug to treat coronavirus. Explain what testing must be done before this new drug can be used to treat people.

Pre-clinical trials of the new drug are carried out on…
These are designed to test the …
Then … are used on … and coronavirus patients at ….
These are used to monitor for …
If it is safe then trials to find …
These are … that randomly allocate a … which does not contain the new drug to patients, so no one knows who …
Finally the data must be…

Question 17
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You do: In the early 20th century Malaria began to become resistant to the quinine drug that had been used to treat it. Scientists isolated a drug called Artemisinin from a plant. Explain what testing must be done before this new drug can be used to treat people.

Plenary
Question 18
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1. What plant does the digitalis medicine come from?

Question 19
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2. Who is the drug tested on during pre-clinical trials?

Question 20
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3. What properties of the drug is tested for in pre-clinical and clinical trials?

Question 21
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4. Who is the drug tested on in clinical trials?

Question 22
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5. What is a placebo?

What is the correct order for drug trials?
1. Healthy volunteers, patients, cells, tissues, animals
2. patients, cells, tissues, animals, healthy volunteers
3. Cells, animals, tissues, healthy volunteers, patients
4. Cells, tissues, animals, healthy volunteers, patients
What is a placebo?
1. A substance that is identical to the drug.
2. A substance that does not contain an active drug, but is otherwise identical to the drug.
3. A substance that contains an active drug, but is otherwise identical to the drug.
4. A fake drug.
What is a double blind trial?
1. When the patients don’t know if they have a placebo or real drug, but the doctor does know.
2. When the patients don’t know if they have a placebo or real drug, and neither does the doctor.
3. When the patients and the doctors know who has the placebo.
What is efficacy of a drug?
1. A measure of how well the drug treats a disease.
2. A measure of how many unwanted side-effects the drug causes.
3. A measure of how much of the drug should be used to treat a disease.