RE-UPTAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does re-uptake mean? 

• RE-UPTAKE (noun)
  The noun RE-UPTAKE has 1 sense:

1. a process of using up or consuming again

  Familiarity information: RE-UPTAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RE-UPTAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A process of using up or consuming again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

re-uptake; reuptake

Context example:

psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters

Hypernyms ("re-uptake" is a kind of...):

uptake (a process of taking up or using up or consuming)

 Context examples 

As aldosterone causes re-uptake of sodium and water and eventually an increase in extracellular volume, aliskiren is able to prevent the effects that contribute to an increase in blood pressure.

(Aliskiren, NCI Thesaurus)

Desipramine enhances monoamine neurotransmission in certain areas of the brain by inhibiting the re-uptake of noradrenaline and serotonin at the noradrenergic and serotoninergic nerve endings, respectively.

(Desipramine, NCI Thesaurus)

In the central nervous system (CNS), desipramine hydrochloride blocks the re-uptake of neurotransmitters, including norepinephrine and serotonin.

(Desipramine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Clomipramine hydrochloride is a tricyclic antidepressant that acts by reducing the re-uptake of norepinephrine and serotonin in the central nervous system, thereby enhancing the effects of these neurotransmitters.

(Clomipramine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Cocaine binds to the dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine transport proteins and inhibits the re-uptake of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine into pre-synaptic neurons.

(Cocaine, NCI Thesaurus)

A tricyclic antidepressant that acts by reducing the re-uptake of norepinephrine and serotonin in the central nervous system, thereby enhancing the effects of these neurotransmitters.

(Clomipramine, NCI Thesaurus)

Amoxapine exerts its antidepressant effect by inhibiting the re-uptake of norepinephrine and, to a lesser degree, of serotonin, at adrenergic nerve endings and blocks the response of dopamine receptors to dopamine.

(Amoxapine, NCI Thesaurus)

Amitriptyline inhibits the re-uptake of norepinephrine and serotonin by the presynaptic neuronal membrane in the central nervous system (CNS), thereby increasing the synaptic concentration of norepinephrine and serotonin.

(Amitriptyline, NCI Thesaurus)

Buproprion also weakly inhibits the neuronal re-uptake of dopamine.

(Bupropion, NCI Thesaurus)

Isoflurane may also both inhibit glutamatergic excitatory transmission by increasing glutamate re-uptake, and potentiate glycine receptor activity, which decreases motor function.

(Isoflurane, NCI Thesaurus)