Glossary domain
Body and drug basics
What a peptide is, how a compound acts, where in the body things happen, and what happens to a compound once it is in. No biology background assumed.
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- Absorption
- Agonist
- Amino acid
- Amino-acid sequence
- Analogue
- Antagonist
- ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)
- Binding affinity
- Bioavailability
- CD38
- Clearance
- Cofactor
- DAF-16
- Downregulation
- Endogenous vs exogenous
- First-pass metabolism
- Fragment
- GH / IGF-1 axis
- Half-life
- HPA axis
- Hypothalamus
- Lipofuscin
- Metabolic pathway
- Mitochondria
- Mitophagy
- NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide)
- NR (Nicotinamide Riboside)
- Peak and trough
- Peptide
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pituitary gland
- Protein
- Receptor
- Signalling pathway
- Sirtuins
- SKN-1
- Systemic vs local