Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Rapid desensitization to a toxic substance produced by inoculation with a series of small doses.
- noun A rapidly decreasing response to a drug following administration of the initial doses.
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- noun medicine A rapidly decreasing
response to adrug following administration of the initial doses
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If the treatment results regimen can be optimally adapted to the habits are inadequate, the doctor must judge whether of the patient, thereby facilitating his correct the disease is taking a progressive course, execution of the agreed-upon dosing regimen. whether the drug is losing its effect with pro - To do such adaptation effectively, it is essential longed treatment (which pharmacologists call to understand how much forgiveness the pre - 'tachyphylaxis') or whether the cause lies with scribed product allows.
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Critics of antidepressants call this “Prozac poop-out,” but mainstream doctors have a much fancier name for it: tachyphylaxis.
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Subjectively they may not feel sedated even as larger and larger doses are given over time (known medically as drug tolerance or tachyphylaxis).
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In medicine, a reduced response to a given medication over time produces tachyphylaxis.
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Prolonged protection without tachyphylaxis following repetitive dosing
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Does tachyphylaxis occur in long-term management of scalp sebhorreic dermatitis with pyrithione zinc-based treatments?
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Repeated doses of aerosolized NTHi lysate provide prolonged protection against influenza virus without tachyphylaxis.
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Does tachyphylaxis occur in long-term management of scalp sebhorreic dermatitis with pyrithione zinc-based treatments?
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To test whether tachyphylaxis to the protective effects of the aerosolized NTHi lysate occurs, we challenged mice with influenza in three different conditions: no lysate treatment,
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When mice were repeatedly exposed to the bacterial lysate, as would be clinically desirable during an influenza epidemic, there was no tachyphylaxis of the induced viral resistance.
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