Preferred Name

drug delivery system
Synonyms

drug delivery systems

delivery of drugs

Drug delivery

Definitions

System concerning the "path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body.[1]" ... Routes of administration are usually classified by application location (or exposition). The route or course the active substance takes from application location to the location where it has its target effect is usually rather a matter of pharmacokinetics (concerning the processes of uptake, distribution, and elimination of drugs). Nevertheless, some routes, especially the transdermal or transmucosal routes, are commonly referred to routes of administration. The location of the target effect of active substances are usually rather a matter of pharmacodynamics (concerning e.g. the physiological effects of drugs[2]). Nevertheless, there is also a classification of routes of administration that basically distinguishes whether the effect is local (in "topical" administration) or systemic (in "enteral" or "parenteral" administration). ... source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_delivery_systems [1] TheFreeDictionary.com > route of administration Citing: Jonas: Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2005, Elsevier.

ID

http://scai.fraunhofer.de/HuPSON#SCAIVPH_00000433

definition

System concerning the "path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body.[1]" ... Routes of administration are usually classified by application location (or exposition). The route or course the active substance takes from application location to the location where it has its target effect is usually rather a matter of pharmacokinetics (concerning the processes of uptake, distribution, and elimination of drugs). Nevertheless, some routes, especially the transdermal or transmucosal routes, are commonly referred to routes of administration. The location of the target effect of active substances are usually rather a matter of pharmacodynamics (concerning e.g. the physiological effects of drugs[2]). Nevertheless, there is also a classification of routes of administration that basically distinguishes whether the effect is local (in "topical" administration) or systemic (in "enteral" or "parenteral" administration). ... source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_delivery_systems [1] TheFreeDictionary.com > route of administration Citing: Jonas: Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2005, Elsevier.

exact_synonym

drug delivery systems

delivery of drugs

Drug delivery

label

drug delivery system

PMID

15601436

prefixIRI

hupson:SCAIVPH_00000433

prefLabel

drug delivery system

related_synonym

transdermal drug delivery

subClassOf

http://scai.fraunhofer.de/HuPSON#SCAIVPH_00000012

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