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Selected Keyword: metabolism
Clinical impact of changes in drug clearance
Examines some of the factors which affect total body clearance of a drug and how this, in turn, influences a drug's clinical impact.
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Release Date: 20 January 2009
Introducing Metabolism
This learning resource looks at anabolic and catabolic metabolism. It describes the metabolic fate of energy substrates within the body and the relationships between subunits, storage and breakdown.
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Release Date: 04 November 2010
Introduction to drug clearance
Provides a definition of clearance and a basic explanation of the processes
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Release Date: 18 September 2008
Understanding First Pass Metabolism
Description of first pass metabolism of orally-administered drugs in the liver and gastrointestinal tract
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Release Date: 09 January 2004
Close Clinical impact of changes in drug clearance
Examines some of the factors which affect total body clearance of a drug and how this, in turn, influences a drug's clinical impact.
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Release Date: 20 January 2009
Keywords
- clearance
- Therapeutic Index
- metabolism
- Cytochrome P450
- glomerular filtration
- tubular secretion
- genetic polymorphism
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Close Introducing Metabolism
This learning resource looks at anabolic and catabolic metabolism. It describes the metabolic fate of energy substrates within the body and the relationships between subunits, storage and breakdown.
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Release Date: 04 November 2010
Keywords
- metabolism
- carbohydrate
- fats
- proteins
- catabolism
- anabolism
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Close Introduction to drug clearance
Provides a definition of clearance and a basic explanation of the processes
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Release Date: 18 September 2008
Keywords
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- elimination
- excretion
- half-life
- ionised
- clearance
- metabolism
- lipid-soluble
- steady-state
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