agonist(CHEMICAL)

antagonist | American Dictionary

antagonist
noun[ C ]
us/ænˈtæɡ·ə·nɪst/
a person who opposes or disagrees with another

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antagonist
Screening of gap junction antagonists on dye coupling in the rabbit retina block store-operated calcium channels.
Extracellular recordings of retinal ganglion cells were made in intact ever ted eyecup preparations and nicotinic agonists and antagonists were added to the super fusate.
Screening of gap junction antagonists on dye coupling in the rabbit retina 1998!.
The results obtained using adrenergic agonists and antagonists suggest that the effect of adrenaline would be due to an interaction with 2-receptors.
He described real antagonists on the occasion in detail.
Pregnancy increases hormonal antagonists and insulin therapy may be required.
The theoretical benefits of calcium antagonists over thiazides have not been realized in practice.
Competitive antagonists of opioid receptors exert their effects inside and outside of the central nervous system.
Opioid antagonists have been studied in the management of opioid-induced constipation.
To investigate whether heterosynaptic or hormonal events are involved in emotional and cognitive reinforcement, we applied antagonists of receptors of different neurotransmitters and of corticosterone.
The u s e of specific receptor antagonists (either peptides or chemical drugs) could prove to be useful for this purpose.
At that stage, the therapeutic drama involved two pairs of contrasting metaphors, viewed as cultural antagonists.
Nature and education were thus sometimes paired as antagonists in eighteenthcentury writings, but they were also sometimes yoked together.
To confirm this suggestion, selective antagonists were employed.
However, such as scheme would imply that inactive analogs would act as antagonists.
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