“What the dimness suggests here is the fading of one age and the approach of a new one, a cultural agon crystallized in these two men.”

“The Chorus is important, and peculiar to Old Comedy are the agon and parabasis.”

“Furthermore, this agon happens between the poems or plays or novels themselves, and not between the writers.”

“The agonist and antagonist muscles work in concert to create muscular balance in the human body.”

“When an agonist drug is administered, the response usually increases in proportion to the dose until the receptors are saturated.”

“Those who had taken levodopa or a dopaminergic agonist in the preceding two months were excluded.”

“Rather, all known abused drugs affect a limited number of neurotransmitters by agonism or antagonism of a specific receptor site.”

“A limitation of this study is that ligand binding does not necessarily indicate agonism of the receptor, leading to transcriptional events.”

“Pharmacologically, it is characterized by the constitutive activity of the ligand-free receptor, and by the inverse, partial, and full agonism due to the bound ligand.”

“These observations provide support for the model that glucose and structurally related sugars are agonists of the Gpr1 receptor.”

“Opioid receptor agonists act at sites that are distributed throughout this circuit to produce analgesia.”

“Serotonin is a vasoconstrictor and uses agonists, such as ADP, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, to promote platelet aggregation.”

“The founder of QuickMuse, Ken Gordon of Newton, Mass., calls his showdowns agons too.”

“Poets are a contentious group, perhaps because of the small stakes, and poetry competitions go back at least to the Greeks, who called them agons.”

“They were termed agons, which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey.”