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Study designs Pharmacokinetic studies77 Pharmacokinetic studies77

Pharmacokinetics (PK) studies investigate what the body does to a drug and provide detailed data regarding the concentration of the drug and any of its metabolites in plasma and other parts of the body over a long enough period of time for almost all of the drug to be eliminated from the body

Describes the time course over which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated

References

77. Anderson PL. The ABCs of Pharmacokinetics. The Body. Winter 2005. Available at http://www.thebody.com/content/art875.html