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Descriptor English: Area Under Curve
Descriptor Spanish: Área Bajo la Curva
Descriptor área bajo la curva
Entry term(s) ABC
Scope note: Método estadístico para resumir la información de una serie de determinaciones en un individuo. Se emplea frecuentemente en farmacología clínica donde el ABC de los niveles séricos puede ser interpretado como la captación total de cualquier fármaco que haya sido administrada. En forma de gráfico, la concentración de un medicamento en el tiempo, después de una sola dosis del fármaco, que produce una curva patrón, es un medio de comparación de la biocapacidad del mismo medicamento fabricado por distintas compañías. (Traducción libre del original: Winslade, Dictionary of Clinical Research, 1992)
Descriptor Portuguese: Área Sob a Curva
Descriptor French: Aire sous la courbe
Entry term(s): AUC
Area Under Curves
Curve, Area Under
Curves, Area Under
Under Curve, Area
Under Curves, Area
Tree number(s): E05.318.740.200
G03.787.101
G07.690.725.064
N06.850.520.830.200
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019540
Scope note: A statistical means of summarizing information from a series of measurements on one individual. It is frequently used in clinical pharmacology where the AUC from serum levels can be interpreted as the total uptake of whatever has been administered. As a plot of the concentration of a drug against time, after a single dose of medicine, producing a standard shape curve, it is a means of comparing the bioavailability of the same drug made by different companies. (From Winslade, Dictionary of Clinical Research, 1992)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33119
Unique ID: D019540
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/13
Revision Date: 2016/06/16
Area Under Curve - Preferred
Concept UI M0029025
Scope note A statistical means of summarizing information from a series of measurements on one individual. It is frequently used in clinical pharmacology where the AUC from serum levels can be interpreted as the total uptake of whatever has been administered. As a plot of the concentration of a drug against time, after a single dose of medicine, producing a standard shape curve, it is a means of comparing the bioavailability of the same drug made by different companies. (From Winslade, Dictionary of Clinical Research, 1992)
Preferred term Area Under Curve
Entry term(s) AUC
Area Under Curves
Curve, Area Under
Curves, Area Under
Under Curve, Area
Under Curves, Area



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