In biochemistry and pharmacology, a ligand is a substance that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose. The etymology stems from...

In biochemistry and pharmacology, the Hill equation refers to two closely related equations that reflect the binding of ligands to macromolecules, as a...

In biochemistry and pharmacology, receptors are chemical structures, composed of protein, that receive and transduce signals that may be integrated into...

more central atoms or ions Ligand (biochemistry), a substance that binds to a protein a 'guest' in host–guest chemistry Ligand-gated ion channel This disambiguation...

drug; the concentration of competing ligand in a competition assay which would occupy 50% of the receptors if no ligand were present. The Cheng-Prusoff equation...

A ligand binding assay (LBA) is an assay, or an analytic procedure, which relies on the binding of ligand molecules to receptors, antibodies or other...

rely on the concept of protein-ligand complex interaction. Dissociation constant Ligand (biochemistry) Receptor (biochemistry) Bohl CE, Gao W, Miller DD,...

for measuring dose-response relationships are organ bath preparations, ligand binding assays, functional assays, and clinical drug trials. Specific to...

or LC-MS/MS) relevant to clinical and forensic toxicology". Clinical Biochemistry. 38 (4). Elsevier BV: 310–318. doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2005.01.014...

Smart ligands are affinity ligands selected with pre-defined equilibrium ( K d {\displaystyle K_{d}} ), kinetic ( k o f f {\displaystyle k_{off}} , k o...