Biopharmaceutics - Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
- Course Code :
PHT 835
- Level :
Postgraduate
- Course Hours :
2.00
Hours
- Entry year :
2025/2026
- Department :
Faculty of Pharmacy
Aim of the course
Course Contents
To provide students with an understanding of the processes involved in the absorption, distribution, and elimination of drugs and the manner in which these processes influence the dosage regimens of drugs. The course will introduce the mechanisms for the genetic and environmental basis for inter-subject differences in the metabolism and transport of drugs in the body, metabolite kinetics. Non-linear pharmacokinetics. Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships, therapeutic regimens and dosage adjustments in diseased states, in the young and in the elderly, pharmacokinetic drug interactions, bioavailability and bioequivalence. Introducing quantitative aspects of the relation of pharmacokinetics to pharmacometrics, the drug effect, play a major role. Pharmacometrics focuses on the quantitative aspects of drug effects and kinetics in the body. The quantative information will optimize drug dosage, drug treatment in the individual patient and can be used to plan further research.