A short history of the drug receptor concept

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A short history of the drug receptor concept

Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, Andreas-Holger Maehle, Robert Francis Halliwell

(Science, technology and medicine in modern history)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-231) and index

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  • Paul Ehrlich and his receptor concept
  • The development of the concept of drug receptors in the physiological research of J.N. Langley
  • The receptors and scientific pharmacology I: the critics of the receptor idea and alternative theories of drug action, c. 1905-1935
  • The receptors and scientific pharmacology II: the critics of the receptor idea and alternative research strands: the transmitter theory, c. 1905-1935
  • Quantitative arguments for the existence of drug receptors and the development of the receptor occupancy theory, c. 1910-1960
  • The dual adrenaline receptor theory of Raymond P. Ahlquist (1914-1983) and its application in drug development between 1950 and 1970
  • The emergence of molecular pharmacology

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