WASHINGTON — Having a bad reaction to penicillin as a child doesn't guarantee you're still allergic decades later. And if the oncologist says you have to switch chemotherapies because of an allergic ...

Studies were conducted to define the kinetics of the onset of and recovery from desensitization for human α4β2-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) heterologously expressed in the SH-EP1 human ...

Systematic desensitization is an evidence-based therapy approach that combines relaxation techniques with gradual exposure to help you slowly overcome a phobia. During systematic desensitization, also ...

Drug desensitization is the process by which a patient is densensitized to a drug that they allergic to in the past. This induces a temporary state of tolerance, during which the drug can be ...

An asthma drug accelerates the process of desensitizing patients with food allergies to several foods at the same time, a new study shows. The findings come on the heels of a recent study by the same ...

A volume‑based peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) protocol using store‑bought peanut powder enabled 94% of children with peanut allergy to tolerate high-dose maintenance therapy and supported safe ...

Desensitization is a universal feature of ligand-gated ion channels. Using the crystal structure of the GluR2 L483Y mutant channel as a guide, we attempted to build non-desensitizing kainate-subtype ...

For most phobias, systematic desensitization, developed by Joseph Wolpe, can be used to gradually expose the amygdala to a phobic situation. By gradual exposure, the amygdala becomes accoustomed to ...