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antagonism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Antagonism may
refer to: The
characteristic of an
antagonist Antagonism (chemistry),
where the involvement...
- Drug
antagonism refers to a
medicine stopping the
action or
effect of
another substance,
preventing a
biological response. The
stopping actions are carried...
- is
based on the
receptor occupancy model. It
narrows the
definition of
antagonism to
consider only
those compounds with
opposing activities at a single...
- Sherrington, a
pioneering neuroscientist, is also
referred to as
reflexive antagonism in some
allied health fields. Sherrington, one of the
founding figures...
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Antagonism (in phytopathology)
occurs when one
organism inhibits or
slows down the
growth of a
plant disease-causing organism, such as
harmful bacteria...
- receptor—without
actually binding to the same receptor.
Physiological antagonism describes the
behavior of a
substance that
produces effects counteracting...
- A
serotonin antagonist, or
serotonin receptor antagonist, is a drug used to
inhibit the
action of
serotonin and
serotonergic drugs at
serotonin (5-HT)...
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Intraspecific antagonism means a
disharmonious or
antagonistic interaction between two
individuals of the same species. As such, it
could be a sociological...
- Center-surround
antagonism refers to
antagonistic interactions between center and
surround regions of the
receptive fields of
photoreceptor cells in the...
-
lethal effects of
heavy metals such as
mercury or lead. In chemistry,
antagonism is a
phenomenon wherein two or more
agents in
combination have an overall...
