A 56-year-old man with chest pain is diagnosed with stable angina and treated with several drugs including nitroglycerin. Every day he has to discontinue nitroglycerin for some hours to re-establish reactivity of his body to the drug. The clinical observation of a rapidly decreasing response to nitroglycerin after administration of just a few doses is called
A. idiosyncrasy.
B. tachyphylaxis.
C. heterologous desensitization.
D. refractoriness.
E. receptor downregulation.
B. tachyphylaxis.
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