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 Pharmacodynamics (PD) is that the study of the biochemical and physiologic effects of medicine (especially pharmaceutical drugs). Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics are the most branches of pharmacology, being itself a subject of biology curious about the study of the interactions between both endogenous and exogenous chemical substances with living organisms. In particular, pharmacodynamics is that the study of how a drug affects an organism, whereas pharmacokinetics is that the study of how the organism affects the drug. Both together influence dosing, benefit, and adverse effects. Pharmacodynamics is usually abbreviated as PD and pharmacokinetics as PK, especially in combined reference (for example, when speaking of PK/PD models). General anesthetics were once thought to figure by disordering the neural membranes, thereby altering the Na+ influx. Antacids and chelating agents combine chemically in the body. Enzyme-substrate binding may be a thanks to alter the assembly or metabolism of key endogenous chemicals, for instance aspirin irreversibly inhibits the enzyme prostaglandin synthetase (cyclooxygenase) thereby preventing inflammatory response. The widest class of medicine act as ligands that bind to receptors that determine cellular effects. Upon drug binding, receptors can elicit their normal action (agonist), blocked action (antagonist), or maybe action opposite to normal (inverse agonist).  

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