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        | Descriptor English: | Drug Antagonism | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: | Antagonismo de Drogas 
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Antagonismo de Drogas | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Antagonisme des médicaments | ||||||
| Entry term(s): | Antagonism, Drug Antagonisms, Drug Drug Antagonisms | ||||||
| Tree number(s): | G07.690.773.968.310 | ||||||
| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004336 | ||||||
| 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. | ||||||
| Annotation: | general only; prefer specific drug with /antag | ||||||
| Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||||
| Public MeSH Note: | 68 | ||||||
| History Note: | 68(66) | ||||||
| Entry Version: | DRUG ANTAG | ||||||
| Related: | Narcotic Antagonists
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| DeCS ID: | 4399 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | D004336 | ||||||
| NLM Classification: | QV 37.5 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
| Date Established: | 1968/01/01 | ||||||
| Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||||
| Revision Date: | 2015/06/29 | 
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                | Concept UI | M0006821 | 
| 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. | 
| Preferred term | Drug Antagonism | 
| Entry term(s) | Antagonism, Drug Antagonisms, Drug Drug Antagonisms | 
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