Definition of Re-uptake

1. Noun. A process of using up or consuming again. "Psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters"

Exact synonyms: Reuptake
Generic synonyms: Uptake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Re-uptake

re-searching
re-sentencing
re-sew
re-shoot
re-shooting
re-shoots
re-shot
re-sign
re-speak
re-surveillance
re-treatment
re-treatments
re-union
re-unions
re-up
re-uptake (current term)
re-use
re-used
re-user
re-users
re-uses
re-using
re:
rea
reabsorb
reabsorbed
reabsorbing
reabsorbs
reabsorption
reabsorptions

Literary usage of Re-uptake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Problems of Drug Dependence: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting by Louie S. Harrie (1999)
"Cocaine and mazindol, both DA re- uptake inhibitors, substituted partially for the butorphanol stimulus in both training dose groups. ..."

2. Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research (1991): The Third Triennial Report to edited by MaryLouise Embrey, Christine R. Hartel (1999)
"Jones (1986) reported that the antidepressant trazodone, which is more selective for serotonin re-uptake, had little or no effect on the "high" induced by ..."

3. Cocaine & Federal Sentencing Policy by Richard P. Conaboy (1997)
"inhibiting the re-uptake of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. ... Psychotropic Effects of Cocaine Cocaine also inhibits the re-uptake of dopamine, ..."

4. The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviorsby Diana H. Fishbein by Diana H. Fishbein (2004)
"Treatment-emergent behavioral side effects with selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors in adults with learning disabilities. Human Psychopharmacology, 16 ..."

5. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (1998)
"Local synthesis by non-neuronal cells of ApoE-lipoprotein and recapture to rescue and re-uptake lipids and cholesterol by neurons must undoubtedly be ..."

6. 5th Report Of The Joint National Committee On Detection, Evaluation, And by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"... INCREASED BLOOD PRESSURE Cocaine Cocaine, like the amphetamines, increases release of norepinephrine and prevents neuronal re-uptake of norepinephrine. ..."

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