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Metabolism > Pharmacokinetics
Physiological Phenomena > Pharmacological and Toxicological Phenomena > Pharmacokinetics

Preferred term

Pharmacokinetics  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Drug Kinetics
  • Kinetics, Drug

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer /pharmacokin with drugs

Scope note

  • Dynamic and kinetic mechanisms of exogenous chemical DRUG LIBERATION; ABSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; elimination; and DRUG TOXICITY as a function of dosage, and rate of METABOLISM. LADMER, ADME and ADMET are abbreviations for liberation, absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicology.

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  • 88

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010599

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