Molecules, Cells, and Tissues: Week 2

Individual Bricks from the Week 2 List

Learning Modules:

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• Blood Summary
• Blood1
• Blood2
• Blood3
• Blood4
• Blood5

Read the following Rx Bricks covering Pharmacokinetics. Guide your study to understand these key concepts and principles: ADME, Bioavailability (F), Vd, Drug elimination (First vs Zero order kinetics), Drug half-life, clearance (Cl), elimination rate constant (k), plasma drug concentration (Cp), loading dose, maintenance dose (and also how to calculate such dosing).

Read the following chapter, and give particular attention to dose calculations (ie, loading and maintenance dosing of a drug).