potentiation

American  

[puh-ten-shee-ay-shuhn] / pəˌtɛn ʃiˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. Medicine/Medical. the process, instance, or effect of increasing a drug's potency by administering a second drug simultaneously.

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Other Word Forms

• depotentiation noun

Example Sentences

The researchers also observed that p53 levels were elevated after a period of active communication between hippocampal neurons called long-term potentiation.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

Two mechanisms of synaptic plasticity are long-term potentiation and long-term depression.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Synaptic potentiation onto habenula neurons in the learned helplessness model of depression.

From Nature • Feb. 13, 2018

The researchers noticed that the neurons in CA2 were saturated with RGS14, a signaling protein that mysteriously inhibits long-term potentiation.

From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2011

This phenomenon, known as long-term potentiation, is believed to be the essence of one type of memory formation.

From Time Magazine Archive