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Pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD) (Macheras and Iliadis 2006) is the discipline that associates the representation of the fate of a drug in a living organism, from its infusion in the circulation or absorption by oral route until it reaches its cell target, with the representation of the effects of its action on its target. The first part (journey of the drug) is the object of pharmacokinetics, the second (drug effects) of pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics may use in a plain descriptive way curves representing the time evolution of drug concentrations in the media it visits by purely descriptive parameters, or by dynamical systems admitting such curves as their trajectories. In the same way, pharmacodynamics may use from a macroscopic viewpoint measurable effects, such as variations of blood pressure, as a function of the drug dose, either instantaneously or daily, or at the molecular level, chemical reaction equations that are at the core of the effective...
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Clairambault, J. (2013). Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_696
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