Posted by confused on January 20, 2000, at 20:17:59
In reply to Re: what the heck is a partial agonist?, posted by Elizabeth on January 20, 2000, at 9:19:12
a layman's question: What exactly is an agonist?
What is an antagonist? I have an idea but do not understand completely.thank-you!
> My understanding is that a partial agonist is a drug that activates a receptor to less than the maximum extent. I don't know how to express this quantitatively, though. (Where's Adam when we need him! :-) I think that the partial agonists can behave as antagonists at high concentrations.
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> Buspar is a partial agonist at 5-HT1a receptors and, I believe, a full antagonist at D2 receptors.
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