The discovery that not all agonists uniformly activate cellular signaling pathways (biased signaling) has greatly changed the drug discovery process for agonists and the strategy for treatment of disease with agonists. Technological advances have enabled complex receptor behaviors to be viewed independently and through these assays, the bias for an agonist can be quantified. It is predicted that therapeutic phenotypes will be linked, through translational studies, to quantified scales of bias to guide medicinal chemists in the drug discovery process. © 2012 Kenakin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Kenakin, T. (2012, August 13). The potential for selective pharmacological therapies through biased receptor signaling. BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology. https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-6511-13-3
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