Pharmacokinetics examines how the drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted by the body.
Pharmacodynamics is the science that studies the biochemical and physiologic effects of a drug and its organ-specific mechanism of action, including effects on the cellular level.22 déc. 2022
Pharmacokinetics describes the drug concentration-time courses in body fluids resulting from administration of a certain drug dose, pharmacodynamics the observed effect resulting from a certain drug concentration.
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.