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. 2000 May;130(1):1-12.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0703311.

Inverse agonism at G protein-coupled receptors: (patho)physiological relevance and implications for drug discovery

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Inverse agonism at G protein-coupled receptors: (patho)physiological relevance and implications for drug discovery

R A de Ligt et al. Br J Pharmacol. 2000 May.
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Figure 1
Atropine behaves as an inverse agonist on calcium currents (ICa) in frog ventricular cells (reproduced with permission from Hanf et al., 1993).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Simplified model representing the two conformational states of a receptor (inactive R, and active R*) and their differential affinities for ligands.

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