(n.) The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(2) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(3) We studied the arterial blood gas determinations done on the first hospital day in 14 narcotic addicts with bacterial endocarditis (group 1) and six addicts with other medical complications of narcotic addiction (group 2).
(4) We have investigated the presence of fragments of the HIV genome with a new nucleic acid amplification technique (PCR or polymerase chain reaction) in lymphocytes from 33 seronegative couples with anti-HIV antibodies, most of which were heroin addicts.
(5) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
(6) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(7) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
(8) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(9) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
(10) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
(11) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(12) Of 242 north Italian heroin addicts, 24 (9.9%) were HBsAg positive.
(13) Both groups of addicts had an altered response to oral and intravenous glucose load.
(14) Both heroin and alcohol addicts were characterized by a high frequency and magnitude of life change.
(15) Grahovac’s addiction arrived on the back of an untreated eating disorder.
(16) The WHO said that e-cigarettes should be subject to much tighter restrictions on their use, sale, content and promotion, in a major statement that again highlighted key differences of opinion among medical groups as to whether they will ultimately increase or reduce the number of people addicted to nicotine.
(17) But why did a pregnant heroin addict, or Nadia and the mother who put her into care, want to appear?
(18) High morbidity of such persons is often contributed to their antisocial way of life, and alcohol and drug addiction.
(19) One hundred eighty-eight asymptomatic addicts were studied to determine the frequency of a history of hepatitis (previous episodes of jaundice), abnormalities of liver tests (serum bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, serum albumin, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase) and incidence of HB-Ag and HB-Ab.
(20) Paraphilias (PAs) and non-paraphilic sexual addictions (NPSAs) may be behaviors that share a common perturbation of central serotonin neuroregulation as a component of their pathophysiology.
Adduction
Definition:
(n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.
(n.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(2) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(3) elution patterns of the adducts formed by DBF metabolites with DNA and obtained in vivo at the optimal exposure time of 42-48 h were qualitatively very similar to the patterns obtained in vitro, but their amplitude was quantitatively reduced.
(4) The spectrum of one of these species ressembles that of a N(5)-C(4a) dihydroflavin adduct.
(5) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
(6) It is possible that serum transport is an important source of carcinogenic metabolite and results in DNA adduct formation in tissues.
(7) tert-Butyl hydroaminoxyl is detected as a degradation product of the hydroxyl adduct from all spin traps.
(8) No significant quantitative differences in AFB1-DNA adduct formation between the dietary groups were observed following the first exposure to [3H]AFB1; however, total aflatoxin-DNA adduct levels in the choline-deficient animals were significantly increased during the multiple dose schedule.
(9) Aromatic adducts present in the digest that were resistant to nuclease P1 were thus 32P-labelled while unmodified nucleotides were not.
(10) The alkenylbenzenes, safrole and methyleugenol, also formed DNA adducts detectable by this method.
(11) For dipeptides containing the amino terminal residues glycine, alanine and phenylalanine, abstraction of the hydrogen from the carbon adjacent to the peptide nitrogen was the major process leading to the spin-adducts.
(12) This review is primarily focussed on the application of immunoassays and 32P-postlabeling for human DNA adduct monitoring.
(13) The adduct levels in the local controls were substantially higher than those in the countryside controls.
(14) The sites for replication stoppage as well as the lack of a Mn2+ effect on adducted templates have implications for the mechanisms of mutagenesis by activated AFB1.
(15) The K-region oxides bound directly to DNA to give adducts similar to the minor products detected in the microsomal incubations.
(16) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(17) Therefore, 2-AF:DNA adducts can be used as a differential end point with which to assess the relative roles of N-hydroxylation and peroxidation in the metabolic activation of 2-AF in cell culture and in target tissues in vivo.
(18) In the case of adducts with the diol-epoxides of benzo[c]phenanthrene, the energetically most favored structures are isomers with significant biological activity.
(19) Also, sodium borohydride reduction of the cDNA and PEI-HRP adduct crosslinked by the glutardialdehyde resulted in the stabilization of the probes.
(20) To determine whether the same bioactivation process occurs in whole animals, 3MI was administered to goats, mice, and rats, and the urinary metabolites from these three species were analyzed by HPLC for the presence of the mercapturate that would be expected as the processed and excreted form of the 3MI-glutathione adduct.