Resistance

Resistance
Related Category: Psychology and Psychiatry
in psychiatry: see psychoanalysis.
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Is resistance becoming more common?
Yes. In the latest year for which the researchers had figures (2002-3), nearly 1 in 5 of patients with HIV were resistant to one or more of the available anti-viral drugs.1
Why were the researchers concerned?
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Antibiotic resistance: The ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to withstand an antibiotic to which they were once sensitive (and were once stalled or killed outright). Also called drug resistance.
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Peripheral insulin resistance: Failure of target tissues to increase glucose disposal in response to insulin. See also: Insulin resistance.
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RESISTANCE: Reduction in a pathogen's sensitivity to a particular drug. Resistance is thought to result usually from a genetic mutation.
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Resistance to HBV has not developed with interferon use.
Interferon alfa-2b is expensive.
A new form of interferon approved for treatment of hepatitis C infection is being studied for use in people with hepatitis B.
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Resistance may also have medical or physical causes, which can range from medication-induced confusion to poor vision or hearing to an additional illness.
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Resistance training does not increase the fitness of your heart like aerobic exercise. What it can do is help control your weight because muscular tissue burns more calories than fat.
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Resistance comes with time
Despite all your best efforts, your child is going to get sick — especially during his or her first few years of contact with larger groups of children. But a child's immunity improves with time.
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Resistance exercises
Also called strength training, resistance exercise is a form of anaerobic exercise that often increases muscle mass, tones muscles, and increases strength.
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This resistance to exhaling leads to the typical symptoms of an asthma attack.
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Drug resistance The result of cells' ability to resist the effects of a specific drug. Dysphagia Difficulty in swallowing. Dyspnea Difficult or painful breathing; shortness of breath. Dysuria Difficult or painful urination.
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TOTAL RESISTANCE:
Fight as if your life depended on it. Scream, kick, scratch, bite. Go totally crazy! The purpose is to end the attack and get away safely.
TOTAL SUBMISSION: ...
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Insulin resistancemeans thatinsulin produced by your pancreas cannot get inside fat and muscle cells to produce energy. Since thecells are not getting the insulinthey need,the pancreas produces more and more.
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DEVELOP RESISTANCE"Graduated Tonic Frictions, out-of-door life, careful regulation of clothing.
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Insulin resistanceAn inability to respond to insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas that helps the body to use glucose.
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penicillin B; penicillin G; penicillin G benzathine; penicillin G hydrabamine; penicillin G potassium; penicillin G procaine; penicillin G sodium; penicillin N; penicillin O; penicillin penicillium; penicillin phenoxymethyl; penicillin resistance; ...
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Metformin (Glucophage), which improves insulin resistance in the muscle tissues and liver ...
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The basic principle of the Fontan operation is that it is not necessary to have a ventricle to pump to the lungs as long as the lung arteries have a low resistance, are well developed and are of a good size, ...
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The elimination of RAEB-t from the WHO cellular classification scheme met some resistance. Some have argued that the biology of RAEB-t is distinct from AML and should be retained as a diagnostic category of MDS.
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PhenoSense HIV A rapid phenotypic drug resistance assay that directly measures the sensitivity or resistance of a patient's HIV to currently available antiretroviral drugs; provides drug susceptibility information in 2 weeks, ...
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Many people with type 2 diabetes do not respond normally to their own or to injected insulin—a condition called insulin resistance.
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If you don't, your chances of failure are high, and failure means that you're not only not going to succeed with this regimen, but it may result in resistance to this and other regimens so that the virus is now resistant and can't be treated with ...
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Different degrees of androgen resistance can result in a wide variety of outward symptoms.
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For this reason, the body can acquire "resistance" to a particular foreign agent. These foreign agents are then attacked by sensitized T lymphocytes (cellular immunity).
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Answer: Metabolic syndrome is also called insulin resistance syndrome and syndrome X. By whatever name, it is a clustering together of a number of signs and symptoms that indicate an increased risk for coronary heart disease and type two diabetes.
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Excessive weight gain, high blood pressure, diabetes, a reduced resistance to infection, eye cataracts, and bone loss are among the most frequent side effects of long use of these medications.
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Additionally, resistance can develop if steroids are used over an extended period of time. In an effort to reduce the risk of side effects and resistance, your doctor may recommend that you take periodic breaks from the drug.
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Prevention: Prophylactic antiparasitic medications are commonly used in commercially-bred cichlids, but the danger exists of the parasite building a resistance to the medication and becoming ineffective.
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Pulmonary hypertension is the result of greater resistance to blood flow. As a result of the increased workload caused by this resistance, the right side of the heart becomes enlarged. Eventually, progressive heart failure may develop.
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hormone problems such as insulin resistance (before full-blown diabetes develops), polycystic ovary syndrome, acromegaly (overproduction of growth hormone), or Cushing's syndrome
some cancers.
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A substance that is being studied for its ability to reverse resistance to chemotherapy. Also called zosuquidar trihydrochloride.
LY353381 hydrochloride
A hormone substance used in the treatment of some types of cancer.
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In the past 20 years, some strains of gonococcal bacteria have developed resistance to penicillin. If so, the disease will respond to other antibiotics.
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In general, this term refers to resistance that results from the presence of specific antibodies ( immunoglobulins ). These antibodies circulate through the blood and lymph system.
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In most cases, patients with this type produce enough insulin but are unable to utilize it (called insulin resistance). Type 2 diabetes occurs most often in patients over the age of 40 who are overweight.
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A collection of informative articles from the Office on Women's Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Newsletter Series based on the roundtable "Managing Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis in Women in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance" ...
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Because the two types attack the virus in different ways, they are more effective when taken together than when taken individually. In addition, if the virus develops resistance to one type of drug, drugs in the other category will continue to work.
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by irregular menstrual cycles, scanty or absent menses, multiple small cysts on the ovaries (polycystic ovaries), mild hirsutism (excessive hair), and infertility. Many women who have this condition also have diabetes with insulin resistance.
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