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Schild Analysis

Schild analysis is a quantitative method for characterizing competitive receptor antagonism developed by Henry Schild in 1947. It uses dose-response curves in the presence and absence of antagonist to estimate the antagonist affinity constant (pA2), enabling standardized comparison of antagonist potency across drugs and experimental systems.

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  1. Schild, H. O. (1947). pA, a new scale for the measurement of drug antagonism. Journal of Physiology, 106(3), 337-357. DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1947.sp004220
  2. Arunlakshana, O., & Schild, H. O. (1959). Some quantitative uses of drug antagonisms. British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy, 14(1), 48-58. DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1959.tb00928.x

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