'Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics - Theory' is a course offered in the fourth year of Pharm. D. program at School of Pharmacy, Health Sciences campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Course Duration: 3 Hrs./Week
- Biopharmaceutics
- Introduction to Biopharmaceutics
- Absorption of drugs from gastrointestinal tract.
- Drug Distribution.
- Drug Elimination.
- Pharmacokinetics
- Introduction to Pharmacokinetics.
- Mathematical model
- Drug levels in blood.
- Pharmacokinetic model
- Compartment models
- Pharmacokinetic study.
- One compartment open model.
- Intravenous Injection (Bolus)
- Intravenous infusion.
- Multicompartment models.
- Two compartment open model.
- IV bolus, IV infusion and oral administration
- Multiple – Dosage Regimens.
- Repititive Intravenous injections – One Compartment Open Model
- Repititive Extravascular dosing – One Compartment Open model
- Multiple Dose Regimen – Two Compartment Open Model
- Nonlinear Pharmacokinetics.
- Introduction
- Factors causing Non-linearity.
- Michaelis-menton method of estimating parameters.
- Noncompartmental Pharmacokinetics.
- Statistical Moment Theory.
- MRT for various compartment models.
- Physiological Pharmacokinetic model.
- Bioavailability and Bioequivalence.
- Introduction.
- Bioavailability study protocol.
- Methods of Assessment of Bioavailability