Drug Sensitization

The term describes the situation in which a constant drug dose elicits increasing effects.The condition is opposite to drug tolerance since less dose of the substance is required to reinstate the initial effect (reverse-tolerance). The concept does not refer to cumulative drug effect. (NCI Thesaurus)

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