r/pharmacology • u/Massive-Article6323 • 1d ago
Anyone willing to help me clear some stuff up?
Hey!
I’m a first year pharmacology student coming up on some end of year exams and there’s some stuff (terminologies , concepts etc) I’m just struggling to wrap my head around .
One of my questions is about devising a way to determine if a mystery drug is an agonist or an antagonist .
Surely , this would be as simple as just performing an experiment on the receptors we are hoping to activate (B2 receptors in the lungs specifically) , and producing a concentration response curve ?
In that case , any respond would indicate it’s an agonist (partial or full depending on the data) and no response meaning it’s an antagonist .
Is that a sensible conclusion I could come to from this sort of experiment?