The phrase "acted as partial" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey that something served as a partial element or function, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The committee acted as partial judges in the competition, providing feedback but not making final decisions."
Alternatives: "served as a partial" or "functioned as a partial".
Indeed, RS 67333 and prucalopride acted as partial agonists to induce cAMP accumulation, but as antagonists on inositol phosphate production.
These IL-2 analogs acted as partial agonists and differentially affected lymphocytes poised at distinct activation thresholds.
Functional assays for stimulation of [35S]GTPγS binding showed that several compounds acted as partial or inverse agonists and antagonists of the μ and δ, κ opioid or NOP receptors.
Honokiol indeed directly bound to purified PPARγ ligand-binding domain (LBD) and acted as partial agonist in a PPARγ-mediated luciferase reporter assay.
Tamoxifen and 3-hydroxytamoxifen acted as partial oestrogens to stimulate cell growth and the levels of the pNR-2 and pNR-25 RNAs.
"Certainly, many credit unions have credit builder or rebuilder loans, often structured as a loan with a built-in savings component so that a person gradually builds up funds that can act as partial collateral," said Clifford Rosenthal, the president of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, a trade association representing credit unions in low- and moderate-income areas.
If a sufficiently similar case is not found, the top retrieved cases can act as partial seeds into a GA with the goal of improving performance [11].
Fly ashes are obtained from thermal power plants and they are pozzolanic materials, which can act as partial replacement material for both portland cement and fine aggregate.
These results suggest that phthalates are weakly estrogenic and may act as partial agonists (Jobling et al., 1995).
One explanation might be desensitization of their cognate receptors by the mutant chemokines, which may still act as partial agonists in vivo.
Aripiprazole and bifeprunox are atypical antipsychotics that act as partial agonists at D2 receptors, although only aripiprazole is available clinically at present.
