Infobox Médicament | nom générique=(chlorhydrate de) fluoxétine |noms commerciaux= Fluctine (Suisse), Fluox (Belgique), Fluoxemed (Belgique), Fluoxetop (Belgique), Fluoxone (Belgique), Fontex (Belgique), Prosimed (Belgique), Prozac (Belgique, Canada, France), Rapiflux (États-Unis) Sarafem (États-Unis) Selfemra (États-Unis) |laboratoire= AA pharma, Acino Pharma, Accord healthcare, Actavis, Almus, Alter Apotex, Arrow, Auro pharma, Axapharm, Biogaran, Bouchara Recordati, Cimex, Cristers, Dominion pharmacal, Dr
Drug metabolism is the metabolic breakdown of drugs by living organisms, usually through specialized enzymatic systems. More generally, xenobiotic metabolism (from the Greek xenos "stranger" and biotic "related to living beings") is the set of metabolic pathways that modify the chemical structure of xenobiotics, which are compounds foreign to an organism's normal biochemistry, such as any drug or poison. These pathways are a form of biotransformation present in all major groups of organisms and are considered to be of ancient origin.
Clinical pharmacology is "that discipline that teaches, does research, frames policy, gives information and advice about the actions and proper uses of medicines in humans and implements that knowledge in clinical practice". Clinical pharmacology is inherently a translational discipline underpinned by the basic science of pharmacology, engaged in the experimental and observational study of the disposition and effects of drugs in humans, and committed to the translation of science into evidence-based therapeutics.