Volume Transmission and Pain Perception by Gilberto C. Castañeda-Hernàndez, Paul Bach-y-Rita

“…VT appears to play multiple roles in the brain in normal and abnormal activity, brain plasticity and drug actions. The relevance of VT to pain perception has been explored in this review.…”
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Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis by Prince Cheriyan Modayil, Sathyan Panthakalam, David C. Howlett

“…Jugular venous thrombosis is unusual and is associated with central venous catheterisation, intravenous drug abuse and head and neck sepsis. It is rarely associated with malignancy. …”
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Mesalazine-Induced Myopericarditis in a Patient with a Recent Diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease: Apropos of a Case by Michele Sorleto, Stefanie Dürrwald, Marcus Wiemer

“…Myocarditis is recognized as a very rare possible side effect of this drug treatment. We present a case of mesalazine-induced myopericarditis that was successfully improved by immediate cessation of the medication.…”
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Géopolitique africaine et rébellions touarègues. Approches locales, approches globales (1960-2011) by Pierre Boilley

“…Current developments in the region of drug trafficking and settlement of armed Salafists of Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have brutally internationalized the interest shown in the issue. …”
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HIV Disease Progression to CD4 Count <200 Cells/μL and Death in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan by Stephanie Konrad, Stuart Skinner, Germain Bukassa Kazadi, Kali Gartner, Hyun June Lim

“…OBJECTIVE: To characterize and identify determinants of HIV disease progression among a predominantly injection drug use (IDU) HIV population in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era.…”
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The SISAP: A New Screening Instrument for Identifying Potential Opioid Abusers in the Management of Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Within General Medical Practice by Robert B Coambs, Josée L Jarry, Anusha C Santhiapillai, Rixi V Abrahamsohn, Cristina M Atance

“…However, in patients with chronic pain, addiction to opioid analgesics is exceedingly rare when there is no prior history of alcohol or drug abuse.…”
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On Computation of Edge Degree-Based Banhatti Indices of a Certain Molecular Network by Jiang-Hua Tang, Muhammad Abid, Kashif Ali, Asfand Fahad, Muhammad Anwar Chaudhry, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Jia-Bao Liu

“…Our results prove to be very significant to understand the behaviour of water-soluble dendritic unimolecular polyether micelle as a drug-delivery agent.…”
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Healthy Eating: Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label by Linda Bobroff, Karla P. Shelnutt

“… The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that most food packages have the Nutrition Facts label. …”
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Cholestasis in Crohn's Disease: A Diagnostic Challenge by Nir Hilzenrat, Esther Lamoureux, Averell Sherker, Albert Cohen

“…The first episode was related to an idiosyncratic drug reaction while on sulfasalazine. …”
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Cannabinoid Hyperemesis by Stephen Sullivan

“…Failure to recognize the syndrome leads to misdiagnoses such as psychogenic vomiting, the cyclic vomiting syndrome, an eating disorder or ‘drug-seeking behaviour’, and may lead to extensive, expensive and unproductive investigations, psychiatric referrals and ineffective treatments. …”
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Healthy Eating: Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label by Linda Bobroff, Karla P. Shelnutt

“… The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that most food packages have the Nutrition Facts label. …”
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Editorial: Advances in food processing and analysis: product quality and green revolution by Asli Can Karaca, Giancarlo Cravotto, Hefei Zhao, Tawheed Amin, Luca Rastrelli, Luca Rastrelli

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Use of the Triptans by Marek J Gawel

“…These drugs are, as a group, called the 'triptans'. This review summarizes the pathophysiology of migraine, examines the guidelines for the diagnosis of migraine, which is important because the drugs are relatively specific for migraine itself, and discusses the differences among the components in this class.…”
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Anesthetic Related Advances with Cyclodextrins by Mark Welliver, John P. McDonough

“…This unique ability to encapsulate lipophilic molecules and maintain water solubility confers numerous pharmacologic advantages for both drug delivery and removal. Cyclodextrins, a component part of supramolecular chemistry, may be in its infancy of anesthetic application but recent advances have been described as novel and revolutionary. …”
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Spectrophotometric Method for the Determination of Oxaliplatin in Pure and Dosage Forms by G. Srinubabu, D. Pundarika Rao, L. Sridhar, J. V. L. N. Seshagiri Rao

“…The method is based on the reaction of the drug with 1, 10 Phenanthroline in presence of ferric chloride, which forms a blood red colored complex exhibiting maximum absorption at 520 nm.…”
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Antibacterial Potency of Honey by Najla A. Albaridi

“…Despite the developments in controlling infectious disease around the world, they are still the second biggest cause of morbidity and mortality due in part to the increase in drug resistance among large numbers of the bacterial strains. …”
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How the Veterinary Feed Directive Affects Cattle Owners by Matt Hersom, Todd Thrift, Joel Yelich

“… The Veterinary Feed Directive (VRD) is a federal regulation from the Food and Drug Administration that will change the additives that can be included in animal feed, the ways in which cattle producers manage their animals and veterinarians interact with cattle owners, and the products available for use on the ranch. …”
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Woven Coronary Artery Disease Successfully Managed with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A New Case Report by Yakup Alsancak, Burak Sezenoz, Sedat Turkoglu, Adnan Abacı

“…Herein we report a case with right woven coronary artery managed with drug-eluted stent implantation without complication.…”
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Etiology and Outcome of Acute Liver Failure: Experience from a Liver Transplantation Centre in Montreal by Geneviève Tessier, Edith Villeneuve, Jean-Pierre Villeneuve

“…Although viral hepatitis and drug-induced liver injury are the most common causes, no specific etiology is found in a substantial proportion of cases reported from Europe and the United States.…”
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New Insights into Artesunate as a Pleiotropic Regulator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cells by Lixian Lin, Zengqi Tang, Zhenrui Shi, Qing Guo, Hui Xiong

“…Artesunate, one of the derivatives of artemisinin (“qinghaosu” in Chinese), is known as an antimalarial drug with high efficiency and low toxicity. Of interest, emerging evidences suggest that artesunate also possesses an immunomodulatory effect during innate and adaptive immune responses in cell types and context-dependent manner. …”
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