Several antibiotics exert their action by targeting the translation process in bacteria.

Overton and Meyer postulated that general anaesthetics exert their action by acting on the plasma membrane.

These antagonists bind to a distinctly separate binding site from the agonist, exerting their action to that receptor via the other binding site.

The pharmacological agents usually belong to a class of drugs called sedatives, which exert their action by depressing the central nervous system, specifically those areas concerned with conscious awareness.

However, it had no effect at all in the test tube, exerting its antibacterial action only in live animals.

The second pump is a result of the respiratory and skeletal systems, which exert their greatest action on venous flow.

They then rapidly reach the anterior pituitary where they exert their hormonal action.

This indicates that somatostatin - and probably also octreotide - has no direct effect on the gall bladder but exerts its inhibitory action by the myenteric plexus.

These inflammatory reactions are prevented when drugs like ibuprofen binds with them and prevents them exerting their action.

Exactly how sodium restriction exerts its hypotensive action and why in only certain people remains unknown.