Drug Elimination • Drugs must be sufficiently polar to be eliminated from the body. • Removal of drugs from body occur via number of routes; the most important is elimination through kidney in to urine. Renal Elimination of Drug • A drug passes through several process in the kidney before elimination, Glomerular filtration, tubular seceration , and passive tubular reabsorption. (1) Glomerular filteration : • Drugs enter the kidney through renal artries, which divide to form a glomerular capillary plexus. Free drug (not bound to albumin) flows through the capillary bed into bowman’s space as a part of glomerular filterate. > Glomerular filteration rate is normally about 120mL/min. But may decrease sugnificantly in renal disease. > pH and lipid solubility do not influence the passage of drugs into glomerular filterate. > Variation in GFR...