Hormone Analogs Agonists and Antagonists

The modification of hormones can lead to compounds that are known as agonists or antagonists. 

Hormone analogs that bind specifically to a receptor and initiate the signal transduction pathway in the same maimer as the genuine hormone are termed agonists. Application in research and medicine is foimd especially for those agonists which posses a higher affinity for a receptor than the imderivatized hormone. 

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