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reactivity

reeakti vuh tee

  • n  responsive to stimulation
  • n  ready susceptibility to chemical change

  • They dripped the solution into one of Eisenhower's arm veins to reduce the heart muscle's reactivity to erratic signals.
  • Preliminary evidence suggests that theres not a lot of cross-reactivity between the two clades.
  • If the chain reaction gets going too fast, the solution heats up and expands, reducing its density and therefore its reactivity.
News & Articles

  • Multiple sclerosis: Phase 1 trial safely resets patients' immune systems, reduces attack on myelin protein
    A phase 1 clinical trial for the first treatment to reset the immune system of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients showed the therapy was safe and dramatically reduced patients' immune systems' reactivity to myelin by 50 to 75 percent. The therapy used billions of patients' own specially processed blood cells to create tolerance to myelin, the insulating layer that forms around nerves. In MS, the ...
    June 5, 2013 - Science Daily
  • Big multiple sclerosis breakthrough
    ( Northwestern University ) A phase 1 clinical trial for the first treatment to reset the immune system of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients showed the therapy was safe and dramatically reduced patients' immune systems' reactivity to myelin by 50 to 75 percent. The therapy used billions of patients' own specially processed blood cells to create tolerance to myelin, the insulating layer that forms ...
    June 5, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes

  • Katharine Jefferts Schori in International Herald Tribune
    To live together in Christian community means each member takes seriously the concerns and needs of other members,Jefferts Schori said. "If we can lower the emotional reactivity in the midst of this current controversy, we just might be...
  • Bernard Arnault in AFP
    The 2008 results demonstrate the exceptional reactivity of our organization in this period of economic crisis,said Bernard Arnault, LVMH's chief executive, in a statement.
  • Louis Gallois in Boarding.no
    Delivering and even improving on our commitments, serving our customers even better, with even higher levels of services, more reliability and reactivity, and further improved quality is our prime objective in all this, explains Mr Gallois.

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