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A Patient Reports That a Medication No Longer Effectively Alleviates

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A patient reports that a medication no longer effectively alleviates symptoms. What process informs the provider's response to the patient's concerns?


A) Endogenous antagonists compete with the drug for receptor sites.
B) Decreased selectivity for receptors results in a variety of effects.
C) Desensitization of receptor sites results from continual exposure to the drug.
D) Additional receptor sites are synthesized in response to the medication.

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