The emergence of the drug receptor theory

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 637-641

  Maehle, Andreas Holger ^a   Prüll, Cay Rüdiger ^a   Halliwell, Robert F ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALKALOID; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ATROPINE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CURARE; DRUG RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PILOCARPINE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; STRYCHNINE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG RESEARCH; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; THEORY; ANIMAL; ART; HISTORY;

ANIMALS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PORTRAITS; RECEPTORS, DRUG;

EID: 0036688216     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd875     Document Type: Article

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