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New drugs undergo preclinical and clinical testing. Explain how preclinical and clinical testing differ from each other and why preclinical testing is necessary
Clinical testing involves the usage of a drug on a human body to check for its efficacy, toxicity, dosage etc while preclinical testing involves testing the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, toxic levels of the drug in cell lines and animals and not humans.
Pe clinical testing is important for iterative testing, feasibility, in silico interactions and are important to check for the safety dose for clinical trials on humans. After preclinical testing clinical testings are done related to pharmacokinetics, safety, toxicity, side effects in different phases of the clinical trials by increasing the number of participants in the trial at every phase.