TY - JOUR AU - Kamala Krishnaswamy PY - 2014/01/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Drug/Xenobiotic-Metabolism, Disposition and Toxicity in Malnutrition JF - Defence Science Journal JA - DSJ VL - 37 IS - 2 SE - General Papers DO - 10.14429/dsj.37.5898 UR - https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/dsj/article/view/5898 AB - The role of malnutrition and diet in general on bioprocess, which govern the fate of drug/xenobiotic in the body only just beginning to be understood. Absorption, protein binding distribution, bio-transformation and renal elimination of xenobiotics/drugs are all affected by altered states of nutrition. As such, evaluation of nutritional status is highly relevant prior to prolonged drug thereby especially with drugs having narrow safety margin. ER -