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The term half maximal effective concentration (EC50) refers to the concentration of a drug, antibody or toxicant which induces a response halfway between the baseline and maximum after a specified exposure time.〔(Introducing dose response curves ), Graphpad Software〕 It is commonly used as a measure of drug's potency. The EC50 of a ''graded'' dose response curve therefore represents the concentration of a compound where 50% of its maximal effect is observed.〔(EC50 definition )〕 The EC50 of a ''quantal'' dose response curve represents the concentration of a compound where 50% of the population exhibit a response,〔(definition of EC50 for quantal dose response curve )〕 after a specified exposure duration. It is also related to IC50 which is a measure of a compound's inhibition (50% inhibition). For competition binding assays and functional antagonist assays IC50 is the most common summary measure of the dose-response curve. For agonist/stimulator assays the most common summary measure is the EC50.〔(Assay Operations for SAR Support ) NIH Chemical Genomics Center〕 Sometimes it is also expressed as pEC50 = - LOG(EC50) (with EC50 in M/l). A small change in ligand concentration typically result in rapid changes in response in the biological system, following a sigmoidal function.The inflection point at which the increase in response with increasing ligand concentration begins to slow is the EC50. Which can be mathematically determined by derivation of the best-fit line. While relying on a graph for estimation is more convenient, this typical method yields less accurate results and less precise.〔(Assay Operations for SAR Support ) NIH Chemical Genomics Center〕 == Equation == Many different equations can be used to derive an EC50. One possible function is: where Y is the observed value, Bottom is the lowest observed value, Top is the highest observed value, and the Hill coefficient gives the largest absolute value of the slope of the curve.〔(EC50 equation ) - see page 5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「EC50」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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