drug metabolism

Liver breaks down pills

Drug metabolism is the body's process of chemically breaking down medications and other foreign substances, primarily in the liver.

Enzymes convert drugs into forms the body can eliminate.

Metabolism affects how long a drug stays active: Her fast drug metabolism means she needs higher doses.

Some drugs are inactive until metabolized into their therapeutic form.

Opposites

pharmacokinetic processes

Supplying controlled substances

biochemical transformation state

Resistance to molecular change

metabolic direction

drug metabolismanabolism

Metabolic construction of molecules

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