{"id":39903,"date":"2024-03-01T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39903"},"modified":"2024-03-01T08:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:06:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/01\/word-of-the-day-943\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agonist<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. one that is engaged in a struggle<\/li>\n
  2. [from\u00a0antagonist<\/em>]\n
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    1. a muscle that is controlled by the action of an antagonist with which it is paired<\/li>\n
    2. a chemical substance capable of combining with a specific receptor on a cell and initiating the same reaction or activity typically produced by the binding endogenous substance
      \ndopaminergic<\/em>\u00a0agonists [Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Noted in “Great apes like teasing each other – which may be the origin of humour<\/em><\/a>,” Chen Ly, NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (14 February 2024, paywall):<\/p>\n

      Previous studies<\/a>\u00a0have found that chimpanzees may engage in agonistic teasing, or harassment, to reinforce their hierarchical positions. But when the right balance of enjoyment and aggression is struck, teasing can also be a form of play and amusement, says\u00a0Isabelle Laumer<\/a>\u00a0at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Agonist: one that is engaged in a struggle [from\u00a0antagonist] a muscle that is controlled by the action of an antagonist with which it is paired a chemical substance capable of combining with a specific receptor on a cell and initiating the same reaction or activity typically produced by the binding \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39904,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39903\/revisions\/39904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}