Intrinsic activity
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intrinsic-activity-208-5487442
title:
Intrinsic activity
text:
Intrinsic activity (IA) and efficacy refer to the relative ability of a drug-receptor complex to produce a maximum functional response. This must be distinguished from the affinity, which is a measure of the ability of the drug to bind to its molecular target, and the EC50, which is a measure of the potency of the drug and which is proportional to both efficacy and affinity. This use of the word "efficacy" was introduced by Stephenson (1956) to describe the way in which agonists vary in the resp
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description:
Measure of relative response to a drug
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_activity
date created:
2009-04-30T05:43:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T14:48:30Z
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13
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