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Actions of drugs

Authoring team

Drugs can act:

  • via a receptor
  • via indirect alteration of the effect of an endogenous agonist
  • via the inhibition of transport proteins
  • via enzyme inhibition
  • via enzymatic action or activation of enzymatic activity
  • via other miscellaneous effects

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