Pharmacology & biology
Partial agonist
A molecule that activates a receptor but cannot produce the full maximal response, even at saturating doses.
In plain terms
Partial agonists behave paradoxically: alongside a full agonist they can actually reduce the total signal, because they occupy receptors while producing less activation than the molecule they displaced.
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