“…The perfusion limited pharmacokinetic model (Gibaldi, Boyes & Feldman, 1971;Rowland, 1972;Rowland, Benet & Graham, 1973;Wilkinson, 1975;Wilkinson & Shand, 1975) has recently been successfully applied to describe the disposition kinetics of high clearance drugs such as nortriptyline (Alvin, BorgA, Lind, Palmer & Siwers, 1977), alprenolol (Alvan, Piafsky, Lund & von Bahr, 1977) and paracetamol (Perucca & Richens, 1978) in man. According to this model, the systemic clearance of drugs subject to high hepatic extraction is mainly determined by the rate of liver blood flow (LBF) and only marginally influenced by changes in the activity of the hepatic drug metabolizing enzymes.…”