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The components of the total stimulus for a neutral antagonist (a) and an inverse agonist (b) and the stimulus component for the different types of orthosteric ligands (c). The various receptor species and efficacy components in a and b are defined in the legend to Fig. 1. In c, the stimulus represents the fraction of the orthosteric ligand-receptor complex in the active state (DR*).
