Pharmacokinetics

"Pharmacokinetics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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Dynamic and kinetic mechanisms of exogenous chemical and drug ABSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; elimination; and TOXICOLOGY as a function of dosage, and rate of METABOLISM. It includes toxicokinetics, the pharmacokinetic mechanism of the toxic effects of a substance. ADME and ADMET are short-hand abbreviations for absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination and toxicology.

Descriptor ID	D010599
MeSH Number(s)	G02.111.325.500 G03.787 G07.690.725
Concept/Terms	Pharmacokinetics Pharmacokinetics Drug Kinetics Kinetics, Drug Toxicokinetics Toxicokinetics

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Pharmacokinetics".

Biological Sciences [G]
Chemical Phenomena [G02]
Biochemical Phenomena [G02.111]
Kinetics [G02.111.325]
Pharmacokinetics [G02.111.325.500]
Metabolic Phenomena [G03]
Pharmacokinetics [G03.787]
Physiological Phenomena [G07]
Pharmacological Phenomena [G07.690]
Pharmacokinetics [G07.690.725]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Pharmacokinetics".

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