Antagonism (pharmacology), when a substance binds to the same site an agonist would bind to without causing activation of the receptor
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Reflexive antagonism, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other
Its mechanism of action remains poorly defined however, with GABAergic, NGF and BDNF release promoting, MT1 receptor antagonism, MT3 receptor antagonism, and sigma agonism suggested as potential mechanisms.
This enterprise earned him the antagonism of the Roman Republic, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic of the west, and the tension grew after Antiochus had in 196 BC established a footing in Thrace.
White was also friends with Admiral Sir John Fisher, who shared an antagonism towards the new German High Fleet.
Starting from October 1938, Choe refused to participate in worship of the Japanese Emperor, which was required by law in the 1930s (see Christianity in Korea: Korean nationalism), then he initiated the movement of antagonism towards Japanese Shinto Shrine worship by focusing on Namhae area.
Agonism of D2sh receptors inhibits dopamine release; antagonism increases dopaminergic release.
In the discharge of his vice-chancellor's duties he came into conflict with Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was beginning to manifest his antagonism to Calvinism.
Furthermore, his new-found antagonism toward modern conveniences, especially electricity, culminate in a chase involving the town Deputy, John (Robert Satiacum), and the FBI.
Despite the initial plan of a unified Korea in the 1943 Cairo Declaration, escalating Cold War antagonism between the Soviet Union and the United States eventually led to the establishment of separate governments, each with its own ideology, leading to Korea's division into two political entities in 1948: North Korea and South Korea.
Satan, an embodiment of antagonism in Abrahamic beliefs
Employing the same motif of sexual antagonism, critics say that Winspear, contrasts her hero and heroine in such extremes that the heroine lacks awareness of her own sexuality against the hero who is fully aware of his.