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CHAPTER 4 DRUG BIOTRANSFORMATION Flashcards

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Foreign compounds that absorbed across the lungs or ingested unintentionally either food or drink

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Xenobiotics

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Alternative process that can lead to the termination or alteration of biologic activity

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Metabolism

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What drugs can have extremely long half-lives if it were not for their metabolic conversion to more water-soluble compounds

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Lipophilic barbiturates such as thiopental and pentobarbital

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