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Qualifier English:

pharmacokinetics

Qualifier Spanish:

farmacocinética

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	farmacocinética
Scope note:	Usado para el mecanismo, dinámica y cinética de la absorción, adsorción, biotransformación, distribución, liberación, transporte, ingestión y eliminación de sustancias exógenas y medicamentos en función de la dosificación, extensión y velocidad de los procesos metabólicos.

Qualifier Portuguese:

farmacocinética

Qualifier French:

pharmacocinétique

Entry term(s):

tissue distribution
toxicokinetics

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000493

Scope note:

Used for the mechanism, dynamics and kinetics of exogenous chemical and drug absorption, biotransformation, distribution, release, transport, uptake and elimination as a function of dosage, extent and rate of metabolic processes.

Annotation:

subhead only; with exogenous chemicals only; includes "dynamics","absorption", "distribution", "uptake"; on the extent & rate of metabolism; not for pharmacologic effects or pharmacologic action ( = /pharmacology); see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.53; DF: /pharmacokin or /PK

Allowable Qualifiers:

No qualifiers

Online Note:

search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/PK or PK (SH) or SUBS APPLY PK; use /metabolism or /ME to search /pharmacokinetics 1966-87

History Note:

88; used with Category D 1988 forward

Entry Version:

PHARMACOKIN

Abbreviation:

DeCS ID:

22079

Unique ID:

Q000493

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1988/01/01

Date of Entry:

1987/04/18

Revision Date:

2015/07/01

pharmacokinetics - Preferred

Concept UI	M0030695
Scope note	Used for the mechanism, dynamics and kinetics of exogenous chemical and drug absorption, biotransformation, distribution, release, transport, uptake and elimination as a function of dosage, extent and rate of metabolic processes.
Preferred term	pharmacokinetics

toxicokinetics - Narrower

Concept UI	M0030701
Preferred term	toxicokinetics

tissue distribution - Narrower

Concept UI	M0030698
Preferred term	tissue distribution

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