pharmacokinetic study
- Guideline or reference source
- ICHE5(R1) Ethnic factors in the acceptability of foreign clinical data
- Definition
- A study of how a medicine is handled by the body, usually involving measurement of blood concentrations of drug and its metabolite(s) (sometimes concentrations in urine or tissues) as a function of time. Pharmacokinetic studies are used to characterize absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a drug, either in blood or in other pertinent locations. When combined with pharmacodynamic measures (a PK/PD study) it can characterize the relation of blood concentrations to the extent and timing of pharmacodynamic effects.
- Broader Term
- clinical trial
- Related Term
- pharmacokinetics
- population pharmacokinetic methods
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