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- noun A person who does not
respond - noun medicine A person who does not show an
immune response to avirus after beingvaccinated against it
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Examples
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No one can guarantee that she won't be a nonresponder with a short lifespan, but your prediction that she would die before her husband takes office is equally unfounded.
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But infuriatingly, the only way to know if a particular patient is going to be a "nonresponder" is to put him through chemo.
The Seattle Times 2012
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The likelihood of being a nonresponder varies by race, according to the FDA.
Stories: Local News 2010
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"Telaprevir demonstrated high efficacy in both treatment-naive and nonresponder patients as well as an opportunity for shorter treatment duration for at least some types of patients who previously failed peg-IFN/ribavirin treatment," said Decision Resources Analyst
THE MEDICAL NEWS jhong apolinario 2010
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Bennink JR, Yewdell JW (1988) Murine cytotoxic T lymphocyte recognition of individual influenza virus proteins. high frequency of nonresponder MHC class I alleles.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hamid R. Haghighi et al. 2009
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Schromm AB, Lien E, Henneke P, Chow JC, Yoshimura A, et al. (2001) Molecular genetic analysis of an endotoxin nonresponder mutant cell line: a point mutation in a conserved region of MD-2 abolishes endotoxin-induced signaling.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark C. Dessing et al. 2009
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If the nonresponder cases can be explained by genomic variation, better tailored treatments could potentially be devised, according to the paper.
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gastroenterologists will treat a larger proportion of treatment nonresponder hepatitis C patients with Vertex/Tibotec/Mitsubishi Tanabe's telaprevir than Merck's boceprevir.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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