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potentiation

n. The action of a substance, at a dose that does not itself have an adverse action, in enhance the effect of another substance

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potentiation

n. (medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously

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Bliss, T V P, and L0mo, T Long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate area of the anaesthetised rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path.

Bradley, P M, Burns, B D, and Webb, A C Potentiation of synaptic responses in slices from the chick forebrain.

But if one were to electrically stimulate the perforant pathway to the hippocampus, and get a great deal of adenosine triphosphate past the blood-brain barrier, for instance, thus stimulating the long-term potentiation that aided learning in the first place.

But if one were to electrically stimulate the perforant pathway to the hippocampus, and get a great deal of adenosine tri-phosphate past the blood-brain barrier, for instance, thus stimulating the long-term potentiation that aided learning in the first place.

Voronin, L L Long-term potentiation at neocortical level, in Matthies, H-J (ed.