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| the science of drug action on the body |
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| the combination of a drug, hormone, or neurotransmitter and a target molecule |
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| a ligand that initiates a chain of reactions leading to a response |
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| a ligand that fails to initate the transduction pathways, but competes with agonists for occupancy of receptor sites which inhibits agonist actions |
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| the property of attraction between a drug and a receptor |
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| the ability of an agonist to induce a response |
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| the amount of drug required to elicit any given level of response |
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