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Metabolism > Pharmacokinetics > Biotransformation > Inactivation, Metabolic
Physiological Phenomena > Pharmacological and Toxicological Phenomena > Pharmacokinetics > Biotransformation > Inactivation, Metabolic

Preferred term

Inactivation, Metabolic  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Detoxication, Drug Metabolic
  • Drug Inactivation, Metabolic
  • Drug Metabolic Detoxication
  • Inactivation, Metabolic Drug
  • Metabolic Detoxication, Drug
  • Metabolic Drug Inactivation

Note

  • restrict to chemical changes of exogenous substances; IM general only; coordinate NIM with specific drug /pharmacokin (IM) or /metab

Scope note

  • Reduction of pharmacologic activity or toxicity of a drug or other foreign substance by a living system, usually by enzymatic action. It includes those metabolic transformations that make the substance more soluble for faster renal excretion.

History note

  • 2015 (1970); use BIOTRANSFORMATION 1970-1979

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008658

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