What's the difference between lithiophilite and lithium?
Lithiophilite
Definition:
(n.) A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.
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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).