Drug Toxicity:

Terms Related to Drug Toxicity

• Drug Interaction

  The action of a drug that may affect the activity, metabolism, or toxicity of another drug.

• Drug Carrier

  Forms to which substances are incorportated to improve the delivery and the effectiveness of drugs. Drug carriers are used in drug-delivery systems such as the ...

• Drug Evaluation

  Any process by which toxicity, metabolism, absorption, elimination, preferred route of administration, safe dosage range, etc., for a drug or group of drugs is determined ...

• Drug Targeting

  Systems for the delivery of drugs to target sites of pharmacological actions. Technologies employed include those concerning drug preparation, route of administration, site targeting, metabolism, ...

• Metabolic Drug Detoxication

  Reduction of pharmacologic activity or toxicity of a drug or other foreign substance by a living system, usually by enzymatic action. It includes those metabolic ...