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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Sex and Gender Differences in the Effects of Novel Psychoactive Substances
Brain Sciences, 2020 Sex and gender deeply affect the subjective effects and pharmaco-toxicological responses to drugs. Men are more likely than women to use almost all types of illicit drugs and to present to emergency departments for serious or fatal intoxications. However,
Liana Fattore +3 more
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Ketamine: NMDA receptors and beyond [PDF]
, 2016 Human studies examining the effects of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine as a model for psychosis and as a rapidly acting antidepressant have spurred great interest in understanding ketamine's actions at molecular, cellular, and network levels ...
Izumi, Yukitoshi +2 more
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From "Special K" to "Special M" : The Evolution of the Recreational use of Ketamine and Methoxetamine [PDF]
, 2013 Objective: To review the recreational use of ketamine (‘Special K’; KET) and explore the recent diffusion of its new derivative methoxetamine (‘Special M’; MXE).
Assi, Sulaf +2 more
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Recreational use, analysis and toxicity of tryptamines [PDF]
, 2015 The definition New psychoactive substances (NPS) refers to emerging drugs whose chemical structures are similar to other psychoactive compounds but not identical, representing a "legal" alternative to internationally controlled drugs.
Mannocchi, Giulio +3 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2009 Background Laboratory tests for routine drug of abuse and toxicology (DOA/Tox) screening, often used in emergency medicine, generally utilize antibody-based tests (immunoassays) to detect classes of drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates ...
Siam Mohamed G +5 more
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Recent changes in drug abuse scenarios : The new/novel psychoactive substances (NPS) phenomenon [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Peer ...
Schifano, Fabrizio
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Ketamine-Based Anesthetic Protocols and Evoked Potential Monitoring: A Risk/Benefit Overview
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016 Since its discovery, ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist related to phencyclidine, has been linked to multiple adverse reactions sometimes described as out of body and near death experiences, including emergence ...
Nicoleta eStoicea +8 more
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The effects of memantine on prepulse inhibition. [PDF]
, 2009 Reduced prepulse inhibition (PPI) of startle provides evidence of deficient sensorimotor gating in several disorders, including schizophrenia. The role of NMDA neurotransmission in the regulation of PPI is unclear, due to cross-species differences in the
Bergsma, F +4 more
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Increased DNA methylation in the parvalbumin gene promoter is associated with methamphetamine dependence [PDF]
, 2017 Aim: The parvalbumin (PV)-containing subgroup of GABAergic neurons is particularly affected in schizophrenia and animal models of psychosis, including after methamphetamine (METH) administration.
Dalton, Caroline +6 more
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