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1) Character 2) Competitor or contestant 3) Contracting muscle 4) Fictional character 5) Fictitious character 6) Medical terminology 7) Medicinal chemistry 8) One in a conflict 9) One struggling 10) Participant in a struggle 11) Person in a conflict 12) Protagonist
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• (n.) One who contends for the prize in public games.
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A neurotransmitter, a drug or other molecule that stimulates receptors to produce a desired reaction.
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1.) A neurotransmitter, drug, or other molecule that stimulates receptors to produce a desired reaction.2.) A muscle that moves a joint in an intended direction.
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(from the article `pharmaceutical industry`) ...block AT1 receptors would produce antihypertensive effects. Once again, this assumption proved correct, and a second class of antihypertensive ... Differences in efficacy determine whether a drug that binds to a receptor is classified as an agonist or as an antagonist. A drug whose efficac...
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A medication or other substance that combines with a cell receptor which then stimulates a predictable physiologic response.
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A drug or substance that binds to a receptor inside a cell or on its surface and causes the same action as the substance that normally binds to the receptor.
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A drug that binds with a receptor to exert an effect.
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An agonist is an endogenous substance or a drug that can interact with a receptor and initiate a physiological or a pharmacological response characteristic of that receptor (contraction, relaxation, secretion, enzyme activation, etc.).
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A chemical substance capable of activating a given receptor.
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1. <anatomy> A prime mover. ... 2. <pharmacology> A drug that has affinity for and stimulates physiologic activity at cell receptors normally stimulated by naturally occurring substances, thus triggering a biochemical response. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(ag´ә-nist) one involved in a struggle or competition. agonistic muscle. in pharmacology, a drug that has affinity for the cellular receptors of another drug or natural substance and that produces a physiological effect.
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a chemical or drug that enhances the activity of a neurotransmitter such as dopamine.
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A chemical or drug that mimics neurotransmitter activity.
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A chemical with a positive action in the body.
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(1) In neurobiology, of a neuron or muscle; one that aids the action of another. If the two effects oppose each other, then they are known as antagonistic. (2) In pharmacology, a compound that acts on the same receptor, and with a similar effect, to the natural ligand. (3) In ethology, 'agonistic behaviour' means aggressive behaviour towards a conspecific animal.
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Ag'o·nist noun [ Greek ....] One who contends for the prize in public games. [ R.]
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Agonist: A drug that binds to a receptor of a cell and triggers a response by the cell. An agonist often mimics the action of a naturally occurring substance. An agonist produces an action. It is the opposite of an antagonist which acts against and blocks an action. Agonists and antagonists are key agents in the chemistry of the human body and impo...
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An agonist is a drug that both binds to receptors and has an intrinsic effect; a drug that triggers an action from a cell or a drug.
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agonist 1. A muscle whose contraction is counter acted by the opposite movement of another muscle, the antagonist. 2. A contender for prizes. 3. A person engaged in a contest or struggle; a protagonist. 4. In physiology, a muscle whose contraction is directly responsible for the movement of a part of the body.
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A substance which interacts with a receptor to cause a biological response.
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noun a muscle that contracts while another relaxes; `when bending the elbow the biceps are the agonist`
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A drug which when attached to a receptor causes an effect.
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a person engaged in a contest, conflict, struggle, etc., esp. the protagonist in a literary work. · a person who is torn by inner conflict. · a contracting muscle whose action is opposed by another muscle. Cf. antagonist (def. 3). · a chemical substance capable of activating a receptor to induce a full or partial pharmacological r...
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