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Still, other reports, have suggested that opioid ligands with agonistic effect at μ opioid receptors and antagonistic effect at δ opioid receptors are potentially useful analgesics [ 3 17 18 ] . These latter results advocate that the key to designing opioid ligands with optimal analgesia and minimal side effects may be in the design of ligands that act on more than one receptor type, but activate each receptor differently.
[ 1 ] ). By contrast, if deleterious mutations interact so that their combined effect is smaller than expected under the multiplicative model, then epistasis is called antagonistic (or positive in the terminology of Phillips et al.)
Treatment with antagonistic peptide analogs of IGF-I, antisense oligos, or an adenovirus expressing IGF-IR antisense cRNA, prevents proliferation of cells in monolayers, transformation, and growth in athymic nude mice.
This association agrees with our expectation that more antagonistic curves w ( d ) are caused by an increase in the density of neutral sequences with d , whereas more synergistic curves result from a corresponding decline.
Johnson and Webster took up political positions that turned out to be antagonistic irrespective of the gap in space and time.