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Descriptor English: Drug Antagonism
Descriptor Spanish: Antagonismo de Drogas
Descriptor antagonismo farmacológico
Entry term(s) antagonismo de medicamentos
antagonismo entre fármacos
antagonismo medicamentoso
Scope note: Fenómenos y farmacéutica de compuestos que inhiben la función de agonistas (AGONISMO DE FÁRMACOS) y de agonistas inversos (AGONISMO INVERSO DE FÁRMACOS) de un receptor específico. Los antagonistas no producen por sí mismos ningún efecto en un receptor y se dice que carecen de actividad intrínseca y de eficacia.
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 MeSH
DeCS ID: 4399
Unique ID: D004336
NLM Classification: QV 37.5
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Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Drug Antagonism - Preferred
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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