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tachyphylaxis

[‚tak·ə·fə′lak·səs]
(immunology)
Rapid desensitization against doses of organ extracts or serum by the previous inoculation of small subtoxic doses of the same preparation.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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As nonprandial GLP-1 receptor agonists have longer half-lives and prolonged action, the gastric emptying effect is reduced by tachyphylaxis and their influence on postprandial glycemia is thus diminished by comparison with prandial agonists [81-84].
Wong, "Tachyphylaxis after intravitreal bevacizumab for exudative age-related macular degeneration," Retina, vol.
The first response to octreotide administration is usually hyperglycaemia followed by a blunted effect after 48 hours (tachyphylaxis).
We think that this course was not associated with tachyphylaxis but might be related with starting therapy with a more aggressive disease and insurance issues because we could not perform regular DEX implants.
TAS2R activation promotes airway smooth muscle relaxation despite [beta] (2)-adrenergic receptor tachyphylaxis. Am.
In parallel, the innate repertoire (adhesion molecules, PRRs, innate receptors, etc.) is continuously changing through the degree of expression, tachyphylaxis, due to secondary molecular modifications (changes in glycosylation, glycation), and so forth, thus affecting the strength/quality of interactions and integrated signaling.
One child woke up during surgery (ketamine tachyphylaxis) and 6 children had delayed anaesthetic reversal.
(8) The incidence of adverse events related to study drug decreased over the course of the study, and no tachyphylaxis was observed.
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