Tag: elimination

  • Ending with Elimination/Excretion

    Ending with Elimination/Excretion

    We end our 4-part pharmacokinetics series discussing the all important final “E” of ADME: Elimination or Excretion. Thus far we have traversed absorption, distribution, and metabolism. But how does the drug exit the body? It can be eliminated unchanged or undergo transformation often via the liver to then be excreted. Excretion occurs via two primary…