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cross-tolerance

[¦krȯs ′täl·ə·rəns]
(medicine)
Tolerance or resistance to the action of a drug brought about by continued use of another drug of similar pharmacologic action.
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Prior experience with wheel running produces cross-tolerance to the rewarding effect of morphine.
Effect of exercise and morphine on psychological and physical dependencies, BDNF and TrkB gene expression in rat's hippocampus
Interestingly, p65-Ser536 phosphorylation is resumed and low-dose TNF-induced tolerance is reversed by glycogen synthesis kinase (GSK) 3 inhibition using SB6763 [4], an effect also described within TNF-induced cross-tolerance towards LPS [6].
TNF Tolerance in Monocytes and Macrophages: Characteristics and Molecular Mechanisms
Cross-sensitization and cross-tolerance between exogenous cannabinoid antinociception and endocannabinoid-mediated stress-induced analgesia.
Postoperative analgesia in the Jamaican cannabis user
Cross-tolerance associated with temperature and salinity stress during germination of barley seeds.
Induction of water deficit tolerance by cold shock and salicylic acid during germination in the common bean/Inducao da tolerancia ao estresse hidrico por choque frio e acido salicilico durante a germinacao em feijoeiro
Cross-tolerance. This interaction was reported by fourteen respondents.
Interactions between substance use and sexual behaviours for women receiving alcohol and other drugs services
KEY WORDS: Alcohol and tobacco; alcoholism; cigarette smoking; nicotine dependence; brain; neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; cross-tolerance; alcohol and other drug (AOD) sensitivity; genetic factors; genetic polymorphism; laboratory mice; laboratory rat; neurotoxicity
Alcohol's actions on neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
For the experimental conditions studied here, drying rate was always observed to affect viability, however, no interaction parameters were implemented to model the cross-tolerance of drying rate and moisture content.
A mortality model for Penicillium bilaiae subjected to convective air drying
Incomplete cross-tolerance from one opioid to another can result in improved pain relief at lower-than-equianalgesic dosing of an alternate opioid (McCaffery & Pasero, 1999).
Opioid tolerance: a perioperative nursing challenge
Acclimation to Stresses and Cross-Tolerance To Stresses
Review: abiotic stress sensing and GABA response in plants
Crosses between two wild oat biotypes (UM1 and UM33) differing in their herbicide cross-tolerance patterns indicated that the biotypes had different dominant alleles of the same gene (22).
Genetic Relationships of Alleles for Tolerance to Sethoxydim Herbicide in Maize
This drug-induced biotransformation of itself and other drugs is another source of tolerance and cross-tolerance. Various anesthetics, ethanol, and the sedative-hypnotic drugs are metabolized by and induce the microsomal enzymes to produce multidirectional cross-tolerance.
Sedative-Hypnotics: pharmacology and use
In the case of cross-tolerance of TLRLs, after sequential activations of different TLRLs, reduced inflammatory responses are often observed upon the second TLR stimulation by attenuated activation of immune cells involving macrophages.
Toll-Like Receptor Ligand-Induced Liver Injury in D-Galactosamine-Sensitized Mice: Differences between TLR7/8 and TLR9 Ligands, Cytokine Patterns, and Cross-Tolerance Induction by TLR2 Ligand Pretreatment

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