“Being with a Buddha”: A Case Report of Methoxetamine Use in a United States Veteran with PTSD
Methoxetamine (MXE) is a ketamine analogue with a high affinity for the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. MXE is a newly emerging designer drug of abuse and is widely available through on-line sources and is not detected by routine urine drug screens.
Joan M. Striebel +2 more
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Oneiroid catatonia due to the usage of spice: The case study
Introduction Designer drugs, as a term, first came about in the 1980s. Most of these “designer drugs” have synthetic cannabinoids and other psychoactive formulas difficulty to detect. Objectives A 28 year man was referred to the hospital.
O. Pityk +4 more
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Rational Drug Design Paradigms: The Odyssey for Designing Better Drugs
Due to the time and effort requirements for the development of a new drug, and the high attrition rates associated with this developmental process, there is an intense effort by academic and industrial researchers to find novel ways for more effective drug development schemes.
Kellici T +13 more
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The bridge between classical and ‘synthetic’/chemical psychoses: towards a clinical, psychopathological and therapeutic perspective [PDF]
© 2019 Orsolini, Chiappini, Papanti, De Berardis, Corkery and Schifano. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Chiappini, Stephania +5 more
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E-BioFlow: Different Perspectives on Scientific Workflows [PDF]
We introduce a new type of workflow design system called\ud e-BioFlow and illustrate it by means of a simple sequence alignment workflow. E-BioFlow, intended to model advanced scientific workflows, enables the user to model a workflow from three ...
Breit, T. +4 more
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A frame signature matrix for analysing and comparing interaction design behaviour [PDF]
Protocol studies are an established method to investigate design behaviour. In the context of a project to investigate novice interaction design (ID) behaviour across protocols and cultures, we found that existing design behaviour analysis frameworks did
Blyth, Richard +5 more
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The pharmacology and function of receptors for short-chain fatty acids [PDF]
Despite some blockbuster G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) drugs, only a small fraction (∼15%) of the more than 390 nonodorant GPCRs have been successfully targeted by the pharmaceutical industry.
Bolognini, Daniele +3 more
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2-Benzylbenzimidazole derivatives or ‘nitazenes’ are increasingly present on the recreational drug market. Here, we report the synthesis and pharmacological characterization of 15 structurally diverse nitazenes that might be predicted to emerge or grow ...
Marthe M. Vandeputte +8 more
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Recreational Drug Use and Fluctuating Asymmetry: Testing the Handicap Principle
Zahavi's handicap principle suggests that only organisms with good genetic quality can afford to engage in costly behaviors. Recreational drug use can be harmful to one's health and therefore might be viewed as a costly signal of one's genetic quality ...
Barbara Borkowska, Boguslaw Pawlowski
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Morality in graphical design: reviewing professional moral issues in graphical design [PDF]
Dealing with moral and social responsibilities in growth process of every profession is of primary considerations and is always taken into account by officials of that profession.The subject of morality is a significant issue in the field of graphical ...
KIan Ashrafi, Sodabe Salahi
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