What's the difference between narcotic and stramonium?
Narcotic
Definition:
(a.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
(n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
(2) 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.
(3) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
(4) 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).
(5) The prostaglandins A1, E1, A2, E2 and F2a were comparatively studied for their antiarrhythmic action using the model of strophanthin arrhythmia of narcotized cats.
(6) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
(7) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(8) In this open study we reviewed the circadian distribution of extra doses of narcotic analgesics in 61 bed-ridden patients with cancer pain.
(9) In narcotized cats different respiratory reactions in acute myocardial ischemia was estimated with complicated and non-complicated ventricular fibrillation.
(10) Infants prenatally exposed to narcotics become passively addicted in-utero and may undergo neonatal abstinence at birth.
(11) Convergent results from a multimethod assessment of the issue show that methadone maintenance has long-term and short-term suppressive effects on narcotics use and property crime.
(12) The pharmacokinetics of the narcotic analgesic dextromoramide was investigated by means of a specific GC-MS method in 9 patients who were given a single oral dose of the drug (7.5 mg) together with an anticholinergic before undergoing minor orthopedic surgery.
(13) Ethanol-withdrawn animals displayed an increased sensitivity to the narcotic action of toluene.
(14) Their addiction at the time of seeking treatment was well established: narcotic drugs comprised their main daily expenditure, they had numerous problems associated with narcotic use, and high doses of methadone were necessary for detoxification.
(15) These results provide further evidence that narcotic-induced respiratory depression and analgesia are mediated by different receptor interactions.
(16) Hypericum extract enhanced the exploratory activity of mice in a foreign environment, significantly prolonged the narcotic sleeping time dose-dependently, and within a narrow dose range exhibited reserpine antagonism.
(17) In summary, there are now available very potent narcotics, with small side effect liability.
(18) This paper analyses the influence of medical professional organization on the formation of attitudes and policies toward narcotics in England.
(19) Most involved children less than 3 (42%) yr or greater than 12 (33%) yr. Products most commonly ingested included tricyclic antidepressants (22%), benzodiazepines (15%), theophylline (10%), ethanol (10%), hallucinogens (8%), salicylates (8%), narcotics (8%), antihistamines (7%), and carbamazepine (5%).
(20) In this respect the narcotic antagonist effects resemble those produced by the antiserotonin compounds or opiate agonists.
Stramonium
Definition:
(n.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Toxicological analysis of the food samples revealed contamination with Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) seeds which contained an atropine-like alkaloid.
(2) By means of Datura stramonium agglutinin (DSA) affinity electrophoresis, human alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was resolved into five bands, AFP-D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5, in order of decreasing mobility.
(3) Therefore, Tetracarpidium lectin complements the binding specificities of well-known lectins such as Datura stramonium agglutinin, Phaseolus vulgaris agglutinin, and lentil lectin and will be a useful additional tool for the identification and separation of complex-type glycans.
(4) The first half of gene VI specified the type of local lesions and systemic spread of recombinant strains in D. stramonium.
(5) Datura stramonium contains a compound that impairs learning retention in mice.
(6) Psychopathological findings in two cases of oral poisoning with toxins of "Datura stramonium" (thorn apple) and "Hyoscyamus niger" (insane roof) are reported.
(7) Comparing with matched control groups the levels of pp in asthma and chronic bronchitis were significantly higher (P less than 0.05 & 0.01) After using compound Datura stramonium, the levels decreased.
(8) Binding of lectins from Limax flavus (LFA), Lens culinaris (LCA), Datura stramonium (DSA), Ricinus communis (RCA I), Ulex europeus (UEA I) and Phaseolus vulgaris (PHA L) was assayed semiquantitatively on ultrathin sections.
(9) In all cases studied, Gaucher cells stained with Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin, Datura stramonium agglutinin, Lens culinaris, Ricinus communis agglutinin-I, and wheat germ agglutinin.
(10) Lectin from Datura stramonium (DSA) reacted also with the inhibitor indicating complex and hybrid sugar structures.
(11) Polylactosaminoglycan modification of SHp was established from three lines of investigation: (1) the synthesis of SHp in a cell line (IdID) conditionally defective in the ability to add specific carbohydrate residues to N- or O-linked oligosaccharide chains required the addition of galactose, which is a component of the N-acetyllactosamine repeating unit; (2) SHp was sensitive to digestion with endo-beta-galactosidase, which cleaves the beta 1-4 linkage between galactose and N-acetylglucosamine of the repeated N-acetyllactosamine subunit; and (3) SHp was selected by Datura stramonium lectin (Dsl), which has specificity for polylactosaminoglycans.
(12) Whereas ordinary strains of CaMV are unable to infect solanaceous species except to replicate locally in inoculated leaves, a new CaMV strain (D4) induces chlorotic local lesions and systemically infects both D. stramonium and N. bigelovii.
(13) Datura stramonium agglutinin (DSA) binds the asparagine-linked sugar chains commonly found in the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) purified from urine of patients with invasive mole or choriocarcinoma, but not in that of normal pregnant women or patients with hydatidiform mole.
(14) These large size glycopeptides did not bind to Con A-Sepharose but did bind to Datura stramonium-agarose, from which they were eluted with chitobiose.
(15) The presence of polylactosamine was confirmed by binding to a Datura stramonium lectin column which retarded and bound approx.
(16) Plants of Datura stramonium (thorn-apple) were dissected into their component tissues and examined for the presence of the Datura lectin.
(17) Serum pancreatic polypeptide (pp) both at fasting state and after giving compound Datura stramonium suppositories were measured by RIA in 21 cases with bronchial asthma and 16 cases with chronic bronchitis during attacks.
(18) An acyltransferase activity that can acetylate tropine using acetylcoenzyme A as cosubstrate has been found in transformed root cultures of Datura stramonium.
(19) Both RNAs are capable of inducing the formation of transplantable tumors when introduced at wound sites in stems of Datura stramonium plants.
(20) Purified leukoagglutinating phytohemagglutinin (L-PHA), concanavalin A (Con A), Datura stramonium agglutinin (DSA), and Vicia villosa agglutinin (VVA) were covalently coupled to periodate-oxidized diol-silica by reductive amination.