What's the difference between lepidolite and lithium?

Lepidolite


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica.

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Lithium


Definition:

  • (n.) A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

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  • (1) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (2) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
  • (3) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (4) Furthermore, recent investigations into the pharmacokinetics of lithium salts are dealt with.
  • (5) This suggested that some of the cell population became metabolically inactive at a very early stage, possibly owing to suboptimal conditions of growth.Glycine, lysozyme and lithium chloride initiated lysis of BCG growth in the aforementioned media 24-48 hours after inoculation.
  • (6) The ability of myo-inositol to reverse behavioral effects of lithium was tested using chronic inositol administration or acute intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
  • (7) Patients were examined before and 12 days after the beginning of lithium treatment.
  • (8) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
  • (9) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
  • (10) Thirty-six investigations were made using a number of lithium fluoride micro-rods for each investigation.
  • (11) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
  • (12) Although GTP most potently inhibited [125I]beta h-endorphin binding in the presence of sodium, inhibition of [125I]beta h-endorphin binding by GTP was also observed in the presence of the monovalent cations lithium and potassium, but not the divalent cations magnesium, calcium, or manganese.
  • (13) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.
  • (14) The comparative usefulness of carbamazepine and lithium carbonate in the acute and prophylactic management of DSM-III diagnosed major affective, schizoaffective, or schizophreniform psychoses was investigated in a 3-year, prospective double-blind randomized trial with 83 in- and outpatients.
  • (15) While continuing to receive antidepressant medication after the 21 day period, four of the patients then received lithium carbonate, and three received placebo.
  • (16) The decomposition of nitrosourea is facilitated when a proton or lithium ion is positioned at the oxygen of the nitroso group.
  • (17) A 51-year-old manic woman who developed acute severe lithium intoxication with neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity during rapid abatement of manic episode was reported.
  • (18) The authors expressed in 1984 the assumption that lithium is the drug of the phenomenon of suicidal action in affective disorders.
  • (19) 20 female manic-depressive out-patients who had been treated with lithium over a long period (average time = 4.3 years), were submitted to a psychoanalytic interview and a personality test (FPI).
  • (20) The latter compounds were reduced with lithium aluminium hydride to the respective amines (II a-c) and then N-alkylated by reaction with 2-propynyl-, 2-butynyl- or 2,3-butadienyl bromides to the corresponding amines (III a-j).

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