(1) Moderate to heavy pain in spite of morphia and neuroleptics was experienced in 55% of all treatments.
(2) If they are one of the many for whom months on morphia brings no ease, they can speed the end with dignity.
(3) Thus metoclopramide seems to be an alternative to the traditional treatment of ureteral colic with morphia.
Morphine
Definition:
(n.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
(4) The results clearly show that the acute hyperthermia of unrestrained rats induced by either peripheral or central injections of morphine is not caused by activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis.
(5) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(6) In contrast, methysergide, ketanserin and 6-OHDA abolished the antisecretory effect of morphine.
(7) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(8) A marked analgesic effect was found after application of morphine hydrochloride patch containing Azone and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.
(9) From the results presented it appears that morphine produces a reciprocal change in the activity evoked in extensor and flexor reflex pathways.
(10) These marked steroid-induced changes in MS responsiveness could not be explained by altered pharmacokinetic disposition of morphine.
(11) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
(12) Additional studies on the blood to brain transport of human 125I-IL-1 alpha showed no modification by dexamethasone, morphine, indomethacin or alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone.
(13) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
(14) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
(15) An altered response to morphine was obtained; the effect of morphine on copulatory behavior was diminished while morphine's effect on exploratory activity was potentiated.
(16) In the MVD, all esters appeared to irreversibly block the agonist effect of morphine, but none of the compounds irreversibly antagonized [D-Ala2,D-Leu5]enkephalin to a significant degree.
(17) Morphine administered intracerebroventricularly had little effect on sexual responding, even at doses which produced other side effects.
(18) Morphine-induced vasoconstriction was antagonized by high concentrations of of naloxone or mepyramine and may be due to release of histamine by a naloxone-sensitive mechanism.
(19) In particular, the first tetrapeptide had twice the activity of morphine, while the potency of the dipeptides was less than one twentieth that of morphine.
(20) Morphine addition to the PGE1-stimulated minces did not prevent or reverse stimulation of [3H]cAMP accumulation in any of the three experimental groups.