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Procaine
What the body does with Procaine, 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.
ProcainetakenExitRenal <!--
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.
- doseabsorbed
Bioavailability
N/A 1
- hoursbreakdown
Metabolism
Hydrolysis by plasma esterases 1
- half-lifehalf gone
Elimination half-life
40–84 seconds 1
- exitleaves the body
Excretion
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Source
- Wikipedia, Procaine, drug infobox (revision 1351167068), 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.