Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Quick Guide

Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Quick Guide
ISBN-10
1441956298
ISBN-13
9781441956293
Category
Medical
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2011-04-07
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Siamak Cyrus Khojasteh, Harvey Wong, Cornelis E.C.A. Hop

Description

Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Quick Guide covers a number of aspects of drug assessment at drug discovery and development stages, topics such as pharmacokinetics, absorption, metabolism, enzyme kinetics, drug transporters, drug interactions, drug-like properties, assays and in silico calculations. It covers key concepts, with useful tables on physiological parameters (eg. blood flow to organs in x-species, expression and localization of enzymes and transporters), chemical structure, nomenclature, and moieties leading to bioactivation (with examples). Overall it includes a number of key topics useful at the drug discovery stage, which would serve as a quick reference with several examples from the literature to illustrate the concept.

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