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Introduction: From a Passive Filter Barrier Concept to an Active Drug Handling Organ When deconstructed to its basic structure, the placenta is an active (“drug handling”) barrier between two separated systems (maternal, fetal) with placental drug disposition driven by differences…
Key Points The key feature of neonatal physiology is rapid maturation, resulting in extensive variability in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, further aggravated by other covariates, like pharmacogenetics or unique disease characteristics. Variability is the essence of neonatal care and neonatal pharmacology.…