Orthopedics often uses hormone drugs such as dexamethasone for joint injections (blockade therapy)
I have never really understood the difference between various -sone and -solone drugs.
Also, when studying nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), it was clearly stated that both hormones and NSAIDs can be used to reduce fever, relieve pain, and reduce inflammation. So why can hormones achieve this? And why did we need to invent NSAIDs?
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Initially, I studied the endocrine section in Liu Zhongbao’s Physiology. After learning it, I knew the main types of hormones in the body, especially those related to the thyroid gland. I also learned about adrenal cortex hormones (glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids) and medullary hormones, with the medullary hormones being the part I want to study (adrenaline, noradrenaline). I learned that the various -sone and -solone drugs have to be converted into cortisone to take effect. In fact, this chapter only takes up a small part of the endocrine section, but I can’t say that what I studied before was wasted because I didn’t know those things before, haha.
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Next, I started studying pharmacology. It clearly includes chapters on adrenergic receptor agonists and antagonists. But at the beginning, the instructor clearly pointed out that before this, you need to know the pharmacology of the efferent nervous system.
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So I started to review the efferent nervous system, especially the autonomic nervous system, also called the vegetative nervous system. However, this revealed that I didn’t understand the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Guo Dongxing’s Pharmacology was a bit dull, so I first watched some other concise and interesting videos to get a rough understanding, then returned to continue watching Guo Dongxing’s Pharmacology, finishing the overview of the efferent nervous system and adrenal cortex hormones.