0 the process of causing someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before:
Emotional desensitization means that with repeated exposure to the same sort of thing we tend to react less intensely.
In systematic desensitization you practice relaxation techniques and picture yourself controlling urges to steal.
Another possible explanation is that they are employing the same second messenger pathways such that there is heterologous desensitization.
This observation may reflect receptor desensitization stemming from the slow arrival of agonist achieved with this method.
These bipolar cells have different desensitization recovery time constants that allow different temporal filtering properties.
Nicotinic receptors exhibit variable rates of desensitization upon exposure to ligand, depending upon their subunit composition.
Therefore, the contribution of cone adaptation to background desensitization of horizontal cells is the major one.
