What's the difference between drug and sialogogue?

Drug


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously.
  • (n.) A drudge (?).
  • (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
  • (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
  • (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
  • (v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
  • (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
  • (v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (4) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
  • (5) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
  • (6) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (7) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (8) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
  • (9) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
  • (10) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
  • (11) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (12) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (13) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
  • (14) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
  • (15) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (16) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (17) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (18) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
  • (19) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (20) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.

Sialogogue


Definition:

  • (n.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) increased the sialogogue response of the glands to methacholine, a cholinomimetic drug.
  • (2) A larger body of literature deals with attempts using many different sialogogues to stimulate salivary function in a variety of conditions.
  • (3) Non-nutritive intense sweeteners may affect plaque pH by their sialogogue effects.
  • (4) In the rats on the liquid diet, it was found that the dose needed to evoke a just perceptible secretion of saliva was smaller, that the secretion started earlier and continued over a longer time period, and further that the amount of saliva secreted expressed per gland weight in response to submaximal doses of the sialogogue drug was bigger when compared with the rats on the pelleted bulk diet.
  • (5) The primary axiom is, "Treat the gland, not the stone," and the essential aspects of emergency medical management are antibiotics, sialogogues, warm compresses, mechanical stimulation, and appropriate referral to an otolaryngologist.
  • (6) After 2 weeks of Cd administration significant changes in the secretory response to these sialogogues were observed.
  • (7) Locally acting stimulants of salivary flow or saliva substitutes may alleviate symptoms but systemically acting sialogogues need to be used with caution.
  • (8) Effective salivary substitutes and sialogogues that have minimal side effects need to be developed.
  • (9) The present study examines the mechanism(s) of action of anethole trithione (Sulfarlem S25) compared to the sialogogue pilocarpine.
  • (10) The treatment of xerostomia in patients with SS consists of (1) preventing new and recurrent dental caries by frequent and regular application of topical fluoride, careful dental supervision, and avoidance of sucrose and other metabolizable carbohydrates between meals; (2) reducing oral symptoms by diagnosing and treating oral candidiasis (repeatedly if necessary); and (3) attempting to replace lost saliva by stimulating salivary secretion with physiologic sialogogues or pilocarpine, or if adequate amounts of saliva cannot be stimulated, using some form of saliva substitute, especially for patients wearing complete dentures.
  • (11) The present study examines the mechanism(s) of action of anethole trithione compared to the sialogogue pilocarpine.
  • (12) Substance P (Sub.P), Sar9, Met (O2) 11Substance P (Sar9 Sub.P), a selective neurokinin (NK) 1 receptor agonist, Physalaemin and Eledoisin are equipotent sialogogues as determined by this method.
  • (13) At 70 min the anti-sialogogue effect was clinically satisfactory after both modes of administration.
  • (14) In addition to its potent antileukemic properties, cyclocytidine has a sialogogue action that depends on stimulation of beta adrenergic ereceptors of salivary glands.

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