What's the difference between overpotent and potent?
Overpotent
Definition:
(a.) Too potent or powerful.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is probable that an overpotent vagal effect is less arrhythmogenic because of its more homogeneous action on tissues.
Potent
Definition:
(a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
(a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
(a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
(n.) A prince; a potentate.
(n.) A staff or crutch.
(n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
(2) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
(3) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(4) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
(5) PBOP was as effective as polymyxin B nonapeptide (PMBN), the known very potent permeabilizer.
(6) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(7) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
(8) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(9) We conclude that human hepatic lipocytes synthesize TIMP-1, a potent metalloproteinase inhibitor, and that TIMP-1 expression increases with lipocyte activation.
(10) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(11) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(12) Addition in the cultures of 4-deoxypyridoxine, a potent antagonist of vitamin B6 coenzymes, concurrently with the mitogen, inhibits the induction of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
(13) These findings suggest that Sch 40120 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that may be particularly useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis in which leukotrienes appear to be major mediators of the pathological symptoms that characterize the disease state.
(14) Mercury compounds and EDTA were found to be potent inhibitors of proteinase yscJ activity.
(15) We found that whereas idarubicin was 2-5 times more potent than the other three anthracycline analogs against these tumor cell lines, idarubicinol was 16-122 times more active than the other alcohol metabolites against the same three cell lines.
(16) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(17) The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine is most potent for stimulating Isc.
(18) Chlorpromazine was clearly the most potent antagonist in all three experimental conditions.
(19) Moreover, the ribosylation inhibitors converted the glucocorticoid antagonist RU-486 into a potent agonist for cytolysis of L1210 cells.
(20) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.