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

Djukic, B., Casper, K. B., Philpot, B. D., Chin, L. S. & McCarthy, K. D. Conditional knock-out of Kir4.1 leads to glial membrane depolarization, inhibition of potassium and glutamate uptake, and enhanced short-term synaptic potentiation.

From Nature • Feb. 13, 2018

Chemistry has its covalent bonds and steric effects, geology has its weathering and tectonic shifts, neurology has its memory potentiation and plasticity and sociology has its conflict theory.

From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2012

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

From Time Magazine Archive