Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The action of drugs on living organisms. Also
pharmacology .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pharmacology The branch of
pharmacology that studies the effects and modes of action of drugs upon thebody .
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Examples
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Need pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics examples …
Wolfram Blog : Modeling the Fight against Flu with Mathematica 2009
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As the paper says, the pKa, and in particular the ionic state of a molecule at physiological pH, affects pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
pKa prediction, or, how to convert a JCIM paper into Java Egon Willighagen 2008
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When they get the stuff to dissolve, it's given to mice or rats, and pharmacologists study where the drug goes (pharmacokinetics, PK) and biologists look to see if it's doing what it's supposed to do (pharmacodynamics, PD).
How drugs are made: part I Silas 2008
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When they get the stuff to dissolve, it's given to mice or rats, and pharmacologists study where the drug goes (pharmacokinetics, PK) and biologists look to see if it's doing what it's supposed to do (pharmacodynamics, PD).
Archive 2008-07-01 Yttrai 2008
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As the paper says, the pKa, and in particular the ionic state of a molecule at physiological pH, affects pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Archive 2008-10-01 Egon Willighagen 2008
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This concept of healing, I feel, is to be left to the herbs 'self pharmacodynamics and only to be catalysed by man's intelligence.
Chapter 7 1991
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Dr. Cournand will touch on an important field, viz. the pharmacodynamics of the lung, and especially of the pulmonary circulation.
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In April 2011, we initiated dosing in an exploratory clinical study, double-masked, randomized, cross-over study of 28 patients, at a single site, to assess the pharmacodynamics of unoprostone isopropyl on ocular blood flow.
unknown title 2011
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Announced results from a pharmacodynamics trial evaluating pulmonary artery pressure in healthy volunteers using echocardiogram.
unknown title 2011
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Its mode of action, or “pharmacodynamics”, mesh so perfectly with the rhythms of the human body that the morning cup of coffee arrives just in time to head off the looming mental distress set in motion by yesterday’s cup of coffee.
The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? Michael Pollan 2021
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