Mechanisms Underlying Tolerance after Long-Term Benzodiazepine Use: A Future for Subtype-Selective GABAA Receptor Modulators?
Despite decades of basic and clinical research, our understanding of how benzodiazepines tend to lose their efficacy over time (tolerance) is at least incomplete. In appears that tolerance develops relatively quickly for the sedative and anticonvulsant actions of benzodiazepines, whereas tolerance t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2012-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Pharmacological Sciences |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/416864 |