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Physiological Phenomena > Pharmacological and Toxicological Phenomena > Pharmacological Phenomena > Drug Interactions > Drug Antagonism

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Drug Antagonism  

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Note

  • general only; prefer specific drug with /antag

Scope note

  • 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.

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  • 68(66)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004336

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