TY - CHAP AU - Ayman El-Kattan AU - Manthena Varma ED - James Paxton Y1 - 2012-02-22 PY - 2012 T1 - Oral Absorption, Intestinal Metabolism and Human Oral Bioavailability N2 - In order to avoid late-stage drug failure due to factors such as undesirable metabolic instability, toxic metabolites, drug-drug interactions, and polymorphic metabolism, an enormous amount of effort has been expended by both the pharmaceutical industry and academia towards developing more powerful techniques and screening assays to identify the metabolic profiles and enzymes involved in drug metabolism. This book presents some in-depth reviews of selected topics in drug metabolism. Among the key topics covered are: the interplay between drug transport and metabolism in oral bioavailability; the influence of genetic and epigenetic factors on drug metabolism; impact of disease on transport and metabolism; and the use of novel microdosing techniques and novel LC/MS and genomic technologies to predict the metabolic parameters and profiles of potential new drug candidates. BT - Topics on Drug Metabolism SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/31087 DO - 10.5772/31087 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-16 ER -