drugs
Introduction to Administration and Kinetics of Drugs
Introduction
See Nanomedicine for an overview of all the ways in which nanotechnology has improved drug delivery. Drug administrationis the giving of a drug by one of several means (routes).Drug kinetics (pharmacokinetics)describes how the body handles a drug and accounts for the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination. Drug treatment requires getting a drug to its specific target site or sites in tissues where the drug has its action. Typically, the drug is introduced into the body (the process of Drug Administration ), sometimes far from this target site. The drug must move into the bloodstream (the process of Many factors, including a person’s weight, genetic makeup, and kidney or liver function, can influence these kinetic processes (see Overview of Response to Drugs and 