Some drugs are chemically altered by the body (metabolized). The substances that result from metabolism (metabolites) may be inactive, or they may be similar  ...

Drugs can be metabolized by oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, hydration, conjugation, condensation, or isomerization; whatever the process, the goal is to make the ...

Feb 27, 2019 ... Drug metabolism is the term used to describe the biotransformation of pharmaceutical substances in the body so that they can be eliminated ...

Nov 17, 2020 ... Most drugs undergo chemical alteration by various bodily systems as a way to create compounds that are more easily excreted from the body.

Drug metabolism is the metabolic breakdown of drugs by living organisms, usually through specialized enzymatic systems. More generally, xenobiotic ...

The function of drug metabolism is to convert a molecule that can cross biological membranes into one that is cleared in the urine. Each progressive metabolic step  ...

Drugs can be metabolized by oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, hydration, conjugation, condensation, or isomerization; whatever the process, the goal is to make the ...

Drug metabolizing enzymes have evolved primarily as a defense against non- medical chemicals taken up from the environment. They are therefore expressed  ...

A central aspect of pharmacokinetics (what the body does to a drug) is drug metabolism, defined as the process by which drugs are altered to facilitate their ...

Apr 24, 2015 ... Box 1: The many implications of drug metabolism. Categories of drugs with respect to their metabolic behaviour. 'Soft drugs' have — or are ...