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Pharmacodynamics. What is a bioassay or biological assay?
Pharmacodynamics definition of biological assay or bioassay.
Pharmacodynamics. Antagonism: definition, types (chemical, physiological, pharmacological)
Definitions of different types of antagonism: chemical, pharmacological and physiological.
Pharmacodynamics topics. What is affinity?
The following pharmacological definition has been taken from the Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Department Glossary at Boston University School of Medicine. Affinity: The equilibrium constant of the reversible reaction of a drug with a receptor to form a drug-receptor complex; the reciprocal of the dissociation constant of a drug-receptor complex. Under the most general conditions,