(v. t.) To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
(v. i.) To act in opposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(3) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
(4) Increases in extracellular calcium antagonized the negative inotropic effect.
(5) In K+-depolarized basilar arteries, ifenprodil competitively antagonized the response to Ca2+, and this was enhanced by pre-incubation in calcium hopantenate.
(6) During the postovulatory phase, endogenous progesterone and the production of metabolites antagonized this effect.
(7) An antagonism is unlikely when ciprofloxacin is combined with one of the beta-lactams studied or with tobramycin.
(8) Co-application of CGS 9896, a benzodiazepine receptor antagonist, did not antagonize the guanidino compound-induced inhibition of GABA responses.
(9) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.
(10) The biphasic response to (-)-(S)-Bay K 8644 and (+)-(S)-202-791 suggests that the properties of Ca++ channel activation and antagonism may reside within a single 1,4-dihydropyridine molecule.
(11) We have investigated the bacterial antagonism exerted in oral secretion by alpha-hemolytic streptococci against S. aureus and S. epidermidis.
(12) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
(13) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
(14) The omission of glucose induced a marked increase in the efflux of [3H]GABA, which was antagonized by TTX (1 microM), but not by MK 801 (1 microM) or DNQX (100 microM).
(15) The hyperthermia in rabbits caused by the serotonergic stimulants cited above is also antagonized by pretreatment with MS.
(16) The neuroleptic agents haloperidol, fluphenazine, domperidone, sulpiride and tiapride also antagonized emesis induced by cisplatin but only a proportion of the animals were completely protected and diazepam and prednisolone only reduced the intensity of the response.
(17) These results suggest that formoterol modifies allergen-induced airway responses through functional antagonism rather than the inhibition of inflammatory cell infiltration.
(18) Depolarizations induced by acetyl-Arg6-septide, a NK1-receptor selective agonist, were also antagonized by spantide with a pA2 of 6.5.
(19) 5-Hydroxytryptamine contracted the musculature from all parts of the respiratory tract-an effect which was specifically antagonized by both methysergide and atropine.4.
(20) K showed little activity against LTC4 but could antagonize more selectively H- and ACh-mediated effects.
Antipathy
Definition:
(n.) Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
(n.) Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(2) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(3) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
(4) Home-state antipathy to Christie was crystallized in an blistering editorial published by the Newark Star-Ledger when Christie launched his campaign in June.
(5) Obama said then: They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
(6) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(7) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
(8) In surveying racist attitudes in Australia, Kevin Dunn from the University of Western Sydney found this contributes to a strong antipathy towards Muslims.
(9) Some of this antipathy about Europe in general really relates of course to the European court of human rights, rather than the EU.
(10) What is less well known is that Obama’s personal antipathy towards the prime minister co-exists with a genuine commitment to the welfare and security of the Jewish state.
(11) There is nothing subtle about Trump’s antipathy to science.
(12) Sinn Féin's president, Gerry Adams , says he understands the "antipathy" the family of IRA murder victim Jean McConville feel towards republicans – and has revealed he has made a formal complaint to the police about aspects of his detention in connection with the killing.
(13) It is our antipathy towards migrants that kills in the Mediterranean Read more “When they leave, they are told to stay where they’re seated,” said the fisherman.
(14) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
(15) But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
(16) One former cabinet minister I spoke to agreed with the widespread view that Charles’s relationship with Diana was the biggest factor in public antipathy towards him.
(17) Apple's growing antipathy towards Google - initially over Android, then in its competition for mobile advertising attention, and then for pretty much everything, suggests that the company may be looking for other providers.
(18) In Part 2 Bentham speculates on its causes and alleges that the real reason such behavior is so severely punished is an irrational "antipathy" to pleasure generally and to sexual pleasure in particular.
(19) I am surprised that his close association with the Conservative party failed to make him aware of the fact that she nursed a deeply rooted antipathy towards trade unions generally and is on record as supporting the privatisation of the railways principally because this would significantly weaken both the NUM and Aslef, two of the largest and most powerful unions in the country.
(20) Though complicated by other factors, Rubio’s defeat in all of Florida’s 67 counties, except his home town of Miami, is partly confirmation of what opinion polls have been suggesting for some time: that antipathy toward Havana’s communist government among Cuban Americans in the state is no longer a decisive electoral issue, as it once was.