Definition of retraction. Examples of retraction in a sentence. His charges were false, and he was forced to make a retraction. Then, last spring, Gabriel Arana, an editor at The American Prospect who had undergone several years of reparative therapy in his teens, called on Spitzer at his home in Princeton, New Jersey.
2010]. Grapefruit juice inhibited the first-pass metabolism of oxycodone by CYP3A4 enzymes in the liver; consequently, oxycodone plasma concentrations were significantly increased by 50% and the half-life was extended by 20%.
Grapefruit juice inhibits a chemical in the intestine needed to break down many drugs in the body. The absence of this chemical can lead to higher blood levels. In effect, the drug becomes more potent. This effect has been observed in nearly all calcium channel blockers, a group of drugs used to control blood pressure.