Spatio-temporal simulation of first pass drug perfusion in the liver.

The liver is the central organ for detoxification of xenobiotics in the body. In pharmacokinetic modeling, hepatic metabolization capacity is typically quantified as hepatic clearance computed as degradation in well-stirred compartments. This is an accurate mechanistic description once a quasi-equil...

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Main Authors: Lars Ole Schwen, Markus Krauss, Christoph Niederalt, Felix Gremse, Fabian Kiessling, Andrea Schenk, Tobias Preusser, Lars Kuepfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3952820?pdf=render