Introduction To Agonists: Theory

Full And Partial Agonists

Suppose you find, experimentally, the dose-response curve for several agonists and obtain the results shown across.

You find that some of the agonists produce a maximum response but other agonists, even at very high concentrations, do not give a maximum response.


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The agonists which elicit the maximum response are known as full agonists.
Show me the full agonists

Those agonists which cannot produce the maximum response are know as partial agonists.
Show me the partial agonists