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PCA 404 Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics

400 levelMedical & Health Sciences11 topics

PCA 404 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Fate of drugs after administration
  2. Physicochemical factors affecting drug disposition
  3. Routes of administration and drug bioavailability
  4. Drug metabolism pathways and methods of study
  5. Pharmacokinetic terminology and symbols
  6. Kinetics of drug absorption, distribution and elimination
  7. Single- and multiple-compartment models
  8. Multiple dosage regimens and sustained-action forms
  9. Design of dosage regimens using pharmacokinetic principles
  10. Non-linear pharmacokinetics
  11. Pharmacogenetics

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Fate of drugs after administration

The fate of drugs after administration concerns what the body does to a drug after it enters the body: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. For examination purposes, you must understand how each stage determines the onset, intensity, and duration of drug action, and how factors such as route of administration, blood flow, protein binding, and organ function alter drug behaviour.

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