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Polypharmacokinetics is a new concept in pharmacology. Polypharmacokinetics to polypharmacology is like pharmacokinetics to pharmacology. While pharmacokinetics normally deals with only a single compound with its liberation, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (LADME), polypharmacokinetics studies multiple compounds as a single therapeutic regimen, a single formulation, or a single pill/tablet. Clearly, polypharmacokinetics is enormously complex and intricate, yet being critical to ensure synergetic efficacy and improved safety with mitigated toxic effects of the clinical applications of polypharmacology in disease therapy. The present chapter summarizes the most updated studies on polypharmacokinetics with an emphasis on the metabolic approach for elucidating LADME of drug therapy and the influence of drug–drug interactions on polypharmacological therapy of human disease. Specifically, this chapter will start with an introduction to the general concept of pharmacokinetics and polypharmacokinetics and then turn to detailed descriptions of the metabolomics approach for studying polypharmacokinetics. Finally, the impact of drug–drug interaction on polypharmacokinetics will be discussed.
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Wang, Z., Yang, B. (2022). Polypharmacology and Polypharmacokinetics. In: Polypharmacology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04998-9_16
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