Western Pharmacology, 9 September 2014

Pharmacology with May Soong

Routes of Administration

• Oral
• IV
• Supposition
• Transdermal
• Topic
• Inhalation
• Opthalmic
• Intrathecal (direct to cerebrospinal fluid)
• Sublingual

Pro-Drug: a medication that is administered in an inactive or less than fully active form, and is then converted to its active form through a normal metabolic process, such as hydrolysis of an ester form of the drug.

Absorption
Distribution
Metabolism (Mechanism)
Elimination