Pharmacology & biology
Pharmacokinetics
Also known as: pk · adme
What the body does to the drug: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
In plain terms
Pharmacokinetics explains why an injected peptide works and the same peptide swallowed usually does not — digestion breaks it into amino acids before absorption. It is the reason nearly all peptide drugs are injected.
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