Pharmacokinetics, Third Editon (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: December 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780824702953
Subjects: Health systems & services; Health Care Delivery; Medical
First sentence: The most commonly employed approach to the pharmacokinetic characterization of a drug is to represent the body as a system of compartments, even though these compartments usually have no physiologic or anatomic reality, and to assume that the rate of transfer between compartments and the rate of drug elimination from compartments follow first-order or linear kinetics.