(1) The Ca2+ channel current recorded under identical conditions in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones was less sensitive to blockade by PCP (IC50, 90 microM).
(2) PCP plus, 3,4-Diaminopyridine (3,4-DAP) decreased synaptic transmission block from post-ganglionic compound action potential (CAP) responses to supramaximal preganglionic stimulation.
(3) A toddler with common variable hypoimmunoglobulinemia (CVH), inflammatory bowel disease, and recurrent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) on intravenous gammaglobulin (IVIG) replacement was evaluated for a combined cellular immunodeficiency.
(4) Patients with major depression were less likely to use PCP, Blacks were more likely than Hispanics to use hallucinogens, and schizophrenics were less likely to use opioids.
(5) Our results suggest that D1 dopamine receptors might play a more important role than D2 receptors in the expression of PCP-induced behaviour.
(6) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(7) Thus suggests that dextrorphan is an antagonist with very mild agonistic action for PCP receptors.
(8) The neuronal localization of glutamate and phencyclidine (PCP) receptors was evaluated in the cerebral cortex and hippocampal formation of rat CNS using quantitative autoradiography.
(9) However, PCP in combination with morphine produced an increase in met-enkephalin levels and a decrease in HVA levels.
(10) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
(11) We report a case of PCP occurring in a patient with giant cell arteritis who was receiving high dose prednisone.
(12) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(13) Emergency Room patients at Riverside General Hospital who are found by the attending physician to have depressed sensorium and altered personality are routinely subjected to urine tests for various drugs of abuse including phencyclidine (PCP).
(14) As management of HIV infection becomes more proactive, early identification of persons at risk for PCP and initiation of preventive therapy will become more routine, and the clinical impact of P. carinii may be ameliorated.
(15) Phencyclidine (PCP) is a dissociative anesthetic agent which blocks the excitatory effect of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) in the central nervous system.
(16) This advance has undoubtedly led to the apparent increase in the number of PCP cases reported by hospitals and to the accuracy of clinical diagnosis by medical, drug or law enforcement communities...
(17) Because PCP binds to PCP as well as sigma receptors, it is not known which receptor type mediates the various effects of the drug.
(18) Forty-seven cases of chloracne were identified among 648 workers (7.0%) assigned to PCP production at a single plant between 1953 and 1978.
(19) Thienyl-PCP (TCP), a drug that is behaviorally more potent than PCP, partially blocked IK at low doses (31% at 1 microM), but even at high doses (25 microM) the degree of block was never as great as that produced by PCP.
(20) Re-analysis of PCP and PCP-Na samples with high PCDD contents on a high-resolution glass capillary column showed the presence of 3 hexa- and the 2 heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins with nearly constant isomeric ratios.
Pneumonia
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(3) All five individuals appeared to have acute C. pneumoniae infection as determined by results of serologic tests (titers of IgM antibody for all individuals were greater than or equal to 1:16).
(4) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(5) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(6) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(7) Six cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia fulfilled the following criteria: 1) more than a two-month history of symptoms prior to diagnosis, 2) a prolonged clinical course and 3) recurrence.
(8) Calves showing signs of pneumonia had low levels of IgG1 (45-5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml compared with "now-pneumonic" calves which had relatively high levels (only 9.5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml).
(9) 139 cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection (serological diagnosis) were treated at Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, between January 1975 and August 1977.
(10) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
(11) The observed changed indicate that the hyperbilirubinemia and jaundice that develop in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency with lobar pneumonia are caused partly by hemolysis and partly by intrahepatic cholestasis.
(13) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(14) Comparative rates of spontaneous loss of R factor-mediated resistance indicated that Serratia R factors are less stable in E. coli and K. pneumoniae transcipients than in the indigenous hosts.
(15) Two patients subsequently died as a result of pneumonia and cerebral infarction, respectively; both conditions were unrelated to the hemorrhage.
(16) Other less common indications are some instances of aspiration pneumonia, septicemias due to B. fragilis, and actinomycoses.
(17) The physician's approach to the differential diagnosis of obscure, atypical pneumonias has changed.
(18) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
(19) Raised cold agglutinin titres were observed in 16 patients with atypical pneumonia.
(20) The most common clinical presentation was pneumonia.