Pharmacokinetics (PK) is the study of how the body interacts with administered substances for the entire duration of exposure (medications for the sake of this article). This is closely related to but distinctly different from pharmacodynamics, which examines the drug’s effect on the body more closely. This field generally examines these four main parameters: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME).
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