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Tacrolimus

What the body does with Tacrolimus, 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.

TacrolimustakenExitMostly fecal

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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.

  1. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    24% (5–67%), less after eating food rich in fat 1

  2. hoursbreakdown

    Metabolism

    Liver CYP3A4, CYP3A5 1

  3. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    11.3 h for transplant patients (range 3.5–40.6 h) 1

  4. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    Mostly fecal 1

Source

  1. Wikipedia, Tacrolimus, drug infobox (revision 1359242183), 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.