absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicity
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absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicity
abbr.: ADME/Tox; procedures for assessing how pharmaceutical entities are taken up by the body, where they go in the body, the chemical changes they undergo during these processes, how they are excreted, and the toxicological effects they might have. ADME/Tox is an essential component of drug-safety testing.
| absorption spectrum, absorption spectroscopy, absorption spectrometry | |
| absorptivity, abzyme, acanthosome |
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