drug antagonism

Preferred Label : drug antagonism;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : antagonism, drug; drug antagonisms; antagonisms, drug;

MeSH annotation : general only; prefer specific drug with /antag; DF: DRUG ANTAG; general only; prefer specific drug with /antag;

Details

Origin ID

D004336;

UMLS CUI

C0013159;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Antagonist drug (product) [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]
- antagonist drug, nos [SNOMED Notion]
MeSH Descriptor(s) used for indexing
- pharmaceutical preparations [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- drug antagonism [MeSH concept]
See also
- narcotic antagonists [MeSH Descriptor]
- polypharmacy [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- pharmaceutical preparations [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Molecular Function [UMLS semantic type]

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