Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Bioactive Substances Extracted from Marine Natural Products
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2020) | Viewed by 206
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling and simulation; dose prediction in clinical trials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue welcomes contributions especially focused on the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of bioactive substances extracted from marine natural products. Pharmacokinetics of active ingredients is very important to figure out not only their own fates (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) in vivo, but also the relationship with their pharmacological actions. Changes of pharmacodynamic parameters in terms of time courses of plasma/tissue concentrations of the substances should be the main outcomes to elucidate in the drug research and discovery processes.
This issue presents experimental works examining the kinetics and actions of bioactive substances, scaling from animals to humans, and in vitro and in vivo correlations. A comprehensive data analysis would be highly recommended rather than a naïve description, for example, computational approaches including modeling and simulation for the quantitative analysis of both PK and PD data.
As Guest Editor, I would like to invite you to submit relevant contributions to this Special Issue of Marine Drugs.
Prof. Dr. Wonku Kang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacodynamics
- Modeling and simulation
- Marine natural products
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