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Adenosine

What the body does with Adenosine, from the dose to the exit, as its Wikipedia drug infobox records it.

Quoted from the Wikipedia infobox, not yet written up by hand. The order is the usual order of events, not a measured schedule.

AdenosinetakenExitcan leave cell intact or can be degraded

The clock, on a log scale

Each bar runs from the dose to about five half-lives, roughly when 97% of that molecule has been converted or cleared. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and days fit on one line.

  1. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    Rapidly cleared from circulation via enzyme degradation 1

  2. hoursbreakdown

    Metabolism

    Rapidly converted to inosine and adenosine monophosphate 1

  3. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    cleared plasma <30 seconds; half-life <10 seconds 1

  4. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    can leave cell intact or can be degraded to hypoxanthine, xanthine, and ultimately uric acid 1

Source

  1. Wikipedia, Adenosine, drug infobox (revision 1376143840), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.