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Pharmacokinetics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the movement of drugs and their
metabolites through the body from absorption to excretion--what the body
does to the drug
4 pharmacokinetic processes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔drug absorption, drug
distribution, drug metabolism, drug excretion
, drug absorption - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔entrance of a drug into the bloodstream
from its site of administration
drug distribution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔passage of a drug from the blood to the
tissues and cells of the body
drug metabolism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔also known as bioremediation. the
enzymatic alteration of drug structure.
drug excretion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The process by which a drug and/or its
waste products are eliminated from the body. drugs can be excreted via
urine, sweat, saliva, expired air, breast milk
Overall action of pharmacokinetics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the processes act in
concert to determine the concentration of a drug at its sites of action
(receptor sites)
movement of drugs throughout the body - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. passing
through channels and/or pores
2. passing through the cell membrane with aid of cell membrane transport
system
**3. penetrating the membrane directly **most common