English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Endogenous agonist
In
pharmacology
, an
endogenous agonist
for a particular
receptor
is a compound naturally produced by the body which binds to and
activates
that receptor. For example, the endogenous agonist for
serotonin receptors
is
serotonin
, and the endogenous agonist for
dopamine receptors
is
dopamine
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License