A drug’s strength of binding to a receptor can be determined by:
a. conducting an experiment to assess receptor efficacy.
b. conducting an experiment to determine if the drug is an allosteric modulator.
c. conducting a binding affinity experiment.
d. conducting a ternary receptor model experiment.
Ans: C
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