Agonist in a sentence as a noun

*** is primarily a 5HT2 agonist which leads to a decrease in dopamine pathways.

Recently a nutritional supplement\nfor weight loss was found to contain the b2-agonist clenbuterol.

Working with APP transgenic mice, Landreth found that an RXR agonist, bexarotene, induces brain ApoE quickly and robustly.

Amphetamine is a dopamine agonist with downstream effects that inhibit the reuptake of monoamines and trace amines.

[2][3] The development of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists has come a long way since then.

They are also claimed to be partial agonists , meaning even at maximum capacity they only stimulate the receptor to a fraction[3] of a full agonist.

Dopamine agonists and monoamine reuptake inhibitors cause tolerance and withdrawal.

Are you aware of any research into the potential differences?I suppose it wouldn't make much difference, since as you say it only takes a tiny amount of cannabis despite THC being only a partial agonist.

I'm given to understand there are a number of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists with much higher affinity and/or selectivity than the phytocannabinoids.

I am not a neurologist, and I know that the histamine receptor family can have very contradictory effects due to them being a modulator of the release levels of neurotransmitters dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways, and is also more publicly famous as being the target of the antagonist, Benadryl.

Agonist definitions

noun

the principal character in a work of fiction

See also: protagonist

noun

someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon)

noun

a muscle that contracts while another relaxes; "when bending the elbow the biceps are the agonist"

noun

(biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction