Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being made potent; capacitation for certain ends.
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- noun The action of a substance, at a
dose that does not itself have anadverse action, inenhancing the effect of another substance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously
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Examples
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These changes, termed long-term potentiation LTP, provide an easy way for neurons to communicate with one another, thus laying the foundation of memory production.
Shaahin Cheyene: 3 Keys to Boosting Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory Shaahin Cheyene 2011
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These changes, termed long-term potentiation LTP, provide an easy way for neurons to communicate with one another, thus laying the foundation of memory production.
Shaahin Cheyene: 3 Keys to Boosting Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory Shaahin Cheyene 2011
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These changes, termed long-term potentiation LTP, provide an easy way for neurons to communicate with one another, thus laying the foundation of memory production.
Shaahin Cheyene: 3 Keys to Boosting Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory Shaahin Cheyene 2011
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Plagued by excessive alcohol, key receptors in the brain are blocked and later others are activated, producing steroids that undermine long-term potentiation LTP, a process that strengthens the connections between neurons and is essential to learning and memory.
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The process of forging permanent neural pathways, whereby changes occur at the synapse between neurons that enhance and strengthen the connection, is called long-term potentiation.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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Known as long-term potentiation or LTP, it describes the way that the synapse changes with repeated firing.
The Chemistry of Calm M.D. Henry Emmons 2010
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The protein is thought to be essential for long-term potentiation, a crucial process for memory formation.
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This lays a case for a possible harmful effect of ketamine: nMDA antagonists have been shown to disrupt long-term potentiation the neural mechanism by which learning takes place in the brain.
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Structural changes at dendritic spine synapses during long-term potentiation.
Boing Boing David J. Linden 2011
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In the past few years, new software developments that combine computational neuroscience techniques with systems biology techniques have allowed large-scale, kinetic models of the molecular mechanisms underlying long-term potentiation and long-term depression.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski 2010
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