Description of Cytoprotection. Cytoprotection: protection of a cell against harm or harmful agents by chemicals or biologicals. Cytoprotection: The process by which chemical compounds provide protection to cells against harmful agents.
Systematic Desensitization. Systematic desensitization is a type of behavioral therapy based on the principle of classical conditioning. It was developed by Wolpe during the 1950s. This therapy aims to remove the fear response of a phobia, and substitute a relaxation response to the conditional stimulus gradually using counter conditioning.
A major mechanism underlying desensitization is phosphorylation of the GPCR (Stadel et al., 1983; Krupnick and Benovic, 1998; Pitcher et al., 1998; Ferguson, 2001; Willets et al., 2003).