Abstract

When a drug molecule is introduced into a living organism or tissue, it is immersed in a highly reactive biological mixture in which thousands of chemical reactions are simultaneously proceeding in complex, but organized, patterns. These reactions operate in a coordinated manner within cells to conserve certain endogenous compounds and nutrients and to eliminate potentially harmful foreign material. A drug molecule will very likely be affected by one or more of the many chemical reactions occurring in a cell.KeywordsDrug MetabolismDrug MoleculeMicrosomal FractionVolatile AnestheticMicrosomal EnzymeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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