October 14-18
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Read the following Rx Bricks covering Pharmacodynamics.
Guide your study to understand these key concepts and principles:
Potency, EC50, efficacy, Emax, affinity, Kd, graded dose response, agonist, antagonist, competitive antagonist, non-competitive antagonist, partial agonist, full agonist, reversible versus irreversible antagonists, therapeutic index, Km, Vmax, competitive enzyme inhibitor, non-competitive enzyme inhibitor, Michaelis Menten equation, Lineweaver Burk plots.