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Carglumic acid
What the body does with Carglumic acid, 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.
Carglumic acidtakenExitFecal (60%) and kidney (9%, unchanged)
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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.
- doseabsorbed
Bioavailability
30% 1
- hoursbreakdown
Metabolism
Partial 1
- half-lifehalf gone
Elimination half-life
4.3 to 9.5 hours 1
- exitleaves the body
Excretion
Fecal (60%) and kidney (9%, unchanged) 1
Source
- Wikipedia, Carglumic acid, drug infobox (revision 1329245867), 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.