Talk:Pharmacokinetics

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Contents 1 Drug-drug and drug-herbal interactions 2 One-compartment case 3 Multicompartment models 4 ph 5 Standard PK Parameters

[edit] Drug-drug and drug-herbal interactions

This is an important topic that deserces an article of its own. However, copying the abstradt of a review article verbatim in Wikipedia is against the rules (copyright violation) and not useful, because these docoments are too long and too technical. The editor is welcome to write a short encyclopedic excerpt, taking into account other sources like WHO, NIH etc. Andreas 17:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I have been given the assignment of giving a brief lecture at my church on this very topic. I will web-research the topic and write my findings to this article. As a retired, but still licensed registered nurse, I have limited access to hospital medical libraries. I will also make my best effort at including references and links. User:W8IMP 0837, 15 January 2007]] (UTC)

Why is this article titled "Pharmacokinetics (section), when there is another article, not a "talk" section devoted to this topic. I would gladly re-title the article as "Drug-drug and drug-herbal interactions", as soon as I have more data, and someone tells me to change the title. User:W8IMP 08:51, 15 January 2007]] (UTC)

[edit] One-compartment case

The constant which relates the exponent of decay (k) and half-life is easily determined by first principles from the equation for exponential decay. Mentioning circuit analysis seems totally crazy to me; no pharmacokineticist would know anything about circuits or ever need to. If this is important then I think that the maths only should be mentioned. ben 06:50, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

You forget that biomedical engineers (which usually have some understanding of circuits) are involved in the design of medical devices, such as insulin pumps (which have ICs). Pharmacokinetics is not such a narrow field. The research that lead to transdermal patches was done by a chemical engineer -- see Robert S. Langer.[1] Nephron  T|C 20:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Multicompartment models

Shouldn't there be something here about two (or more) compartment models, also non compartmental models? Let me hasten to add, I'm not the person to write it ... Daen 15:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ph

Who "invented" the "Pharmacokinetics"?

[edit] Standard PK Parameters

Would it be useful to have a list of the standard PK parameters, with some brief explanation? Examples: Cmax, Tmax, AUC, etc.

It would be helpful to me! I would definitely read that section carefully. Mlbish (talk) 21:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)