50 episodes
The Drug Chat with Dr. Wambui Dr. Wambui Wamburu
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- Health & Fitness
Dr. Wambui provides drug education using simple terms. Drugs will always be in our lives, let’s get empowered through knowledge to be better healthcare providers, caregivers, or patients. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wambui-wamburu/support
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Antiplatelets - Protease activated receptor 1 antagonists and a Miscellaneous class.
We are at the end of the road of our anti-platelet pathway exploration!!!! We look at 2 different ways of inhibiting the platelets from forming a clot and the different patient populations that these drugs are used. Hooray to the anti-platelets though I'm sure this isn't the end there must be another novel/cutting edge therapy just around the corner that a scientist/discoverer is just about to unveil......
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Antiplatelets - Glycoprotein Platelet Inhibitors
In today's episode I give a gigantic high five to our scientists/discoveres! Figuring out yet another way to stop clot formation by working out the puzzle of how platelets work to form a clot. With that worked out they then make drugs that put a stop 🛑 to this and voila.... no clots are formed.
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Antiplatelets - Thienopyridines
What a lovely name to pronounce Thienopyridines! Another nugget as to how platelets work to cause clots to form and how this class stops that from happening. Very Sci-Fi how these platelets work.
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Antiplatelets - Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors.
In the year 1899 (others say 1897) Asprin was marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Yep and we still use it today talk of super drug. It's used and indicated in many areas but again tunnel vision in this episode where we are specifically interested in how are clots not formed when asprin is around.
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Anticoagulants - Direct Thrombin Inhibitors (DTIs)
It's a wrap with the anticoagulants! The DTIs some interesting fun facts especially the one that has to do with Leeches 😊! They came into the market in the 2000s and have been very helpful on this anti-coagulation journey.
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Anticoagulants - Factor 10a Inhibitors
Our amazing discoverers/scientists are always at work and in the years of 2000s they gave us this class. The other oral anticoagulants besides Warfarin. Factor 10a inhibitors part of the coagulation cascade a genius way to stop that clot.
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