1. What are some nursing concerns for the patient on protease
inhibitors?
2. What medication is used to treat Syphilis?
3. What is the most important thing that healthcare workers can
do to help reduce the spread of infection?
Many adverse drug reactions occur because of the activity of
drugs as inducers and/or inhibitors of key metabolic enzymes such
as the cytochrome P450 family. Explain how a drug can be an enzyme
inducer and how it is possible for a drug to be both an enzyme
inhibitor and an enzyme inducer.
Which is NOT a medication used to treat HIV?
protease inhibitors
antibiotics
fusion inhibitors
integrase inhibitors
antibodies that bind CD4 on T-helper cells
(a). Why a buffer is commonly used in biochemical reaction? In
protein isolation, protease inhibitors are commonly present in the
buffer solution, why?
(b). What is the structure of ammonium sulfate? How does
ammonium sulfate work to precipitate and fractionate proteins in
cell-free extract?
(c). How to define “% saturation of ammonium sulfate”? Be
specific.
How do enzymes increase rates of biochemical reactions?
What are the three classes of reversible inhibitors? Briefly
describe them and their effects on apparent Km and Vmax.