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Receptors, Drug

"Receptors, Drug" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Proteins that bind specific drugs with high affinity and trigger intracellular changes influencing the behavior of cells. Drug receptors are generally thought to be receptors for some endogenous substance not otherwise specified.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Receptors, Drug" by people in this website by year, and whether "Receptors, Drug" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2002
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