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how do medicines "block" or "inhibit" things?
there are many medicines that allow us to treat or diminish symptoms by "blocking" or being an "anti-whatever" but how does it physically do it? what allows a chemical to block only a specific hormone or whatever it may be?
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- Diane ALv 72 years ago
The simple concept (a concept simplified) is call a "lock and Key", Molecular receptors on the surface of cells are like a specific lock, and the substance that interacts with it is specific to that lock in formation (the key). Other ways they work is to inhibit synthesis of something at a critical point, such as antibiotics that inhibit bacterial cell wall proteins so that the bacteria cant build its cell wall and falls apart. Some meds bind to very specific receptors or specific cells, such as nerve cells, or like opiates on the Mu receptor in the brain.
- Anonymous2 years ago
It tricks the brain
