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Drug Antagonism

Phenomena and pharmaceutics of compounds that inhibit the function of agonists (DRUG AGONISM) and inverse agonists (DRUG INVERSE AGONISM) for a specific receptor. On their own, antagonists produce no effect by themselves to a receptor, and are said to have neither intrinsic activity nor efficacy.

Year introduced: 1968(1966)

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Tree Number(s): G07.690.773.968.310

MeSH Unique ID: D004336

Entry Terms:

  • Antagonism, Drug
  • Antagonisms, Drug
  • Drug Antagonisms

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