Medical Definition of Competitive inhibition
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Inhibitor that occupies the active site of an enzyme or the binding site of a receptor and prevents the normal substrate or ligand from binding.
at sufficiently high concentration of the normal ligand inhibition is lost: the Km is altered by the competitive inhibitor, but the Vmax remains the same.
(05 Jan 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Competitive Inhibition
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