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Pharmacology · Chapter 1
What the Drug Does to the Body
Pharmacokinetics is what the body does to the drug.
Pharmacodynamics is the reverse
— what the drug does at the receptor, how the response grows with dose, and how close the helpful dose sits to the harmful one. Drag the slider and watch all three.
At the receptor
Dose–response curve
Pharmacodynamics
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Agonist vs antagonist
Therapeutic index
Dose
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