Basic Concept Of Pharmacokinetic

Basically, there are two main component in pharmacology study. Which are pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.

 Pharmacokinetics talk about the drug movement into , within and out of the body. Whereas pharmacodynamics talk about what does the drug do to body.

Okay, today, we will focus into pharmacokinetics. Pharmacokinetics involve four main steps. Which are absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. Mnemonically as ADME.

Absorption is about the transfer of drugs from site of administration to the systemic circulation. Distribution about the transfer of drugs from systemic circualtion to tissues. And metabolism is a process of biotransformation of drugs. And lastly, excretion will do the remove task inside our body. Excretion will removes drugs from the body whether by renal or hepatobilliary system.

So, that all, the very basic things about pharmacokinetic. In next post, i will go more detail into all of these steps.

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