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unusual facts about Receptor antagonist


Antagonism

Antagonism (pharmacology), when a substance binds to the same site an agonist would bind to without causing activation of the receptor


Cimetidine

Cimetidine was the culmination of a project at Smith, Kline and French (SK&F; now GlaxoSmithKline) by James W. Black, C. Robin Ganellin, and others to develop a histamine receptor antagonist to suppress stomach acid secretion.

Iodoresiniferatoxin

Iodoresiniferatoxin (I-RTX) is a strong competitive antagonist of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptor.

Pegdinetanib

Pegdinetanib (USAN; planned trade name Angiocept) is an investigational anti-cancer drug that acts as a selective antagonist of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2), hindering vascularization of tumors.


see also

Apixaban

The majority of the patients (81%) were receiving aspirin plus a P2Y12-receptor antagonist, predominantly clopidogrel.

H3 receptor antagonist

An H3-receptor antagonist is a classification of drugs used to block the action of histamine at the Zactane

Famotidine, a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits stomach acid production