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protean agonism: a standalone construct

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Pharmacology

the property of a ligand that acts as an agonist in a quiet receptor system but as an inverse agonist in a constitutively active one.

In pharmacology, protean agonism refers to the property of a ligand that acts as an agonist in a quiet receptor system but as an inverse agonist in a constitutively active one. This meaning comes from Kenakin (1995) in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.[1]

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agonist1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone construct inverse agonist1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · below-baseline receptor effect ligand2 fields · 2 citationsinvariant · one construct, two systems

References

Kenakin, T. (1995). Pharmacological proteus? Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 16(8), 256-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-6147(00)89037-9

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