Foundations of pharmacokinetics

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The term "Pharmacokinetics" was first used by Dost [1] to mean the quantitative study of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of drugs, but pharmacologists have always been aware that drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated from the organism, and that the rates of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination are fundamental in determining the effects on the organism they are administered to.