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Prescription errors. Legibility and drug name confusion.

Inadvertent drug substitution occurred in several instances in our practices due to the combination of the physician's illegible handwriting on prescriptions and the pharmacist's misinterpretation of subtle clues, which might have prevented the…

Tags: *Handwriting, *Medication Errors, 1997, Archives of family medicine, Bredle D L, Brodell R T, Helms S E, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, KrishnaRao I

Human zoonotic infections transmitted by dogs and cats.

Dogs and cats are the 2 most common household pets. However, they may be a direct or indirect source of human infections. This article aims to familiarize physicians with some common and uncommon bacterial, rickettsial, parasitic, and fungal zoonotic…

Tags: *Cats, *Disease Vectors, *Dogs, 1997, Animals, Archives of internal medicine, Bacterial Infections/transmission/veterinary, Cat Diseases/transmission, Dog Diseases/transmission, Ectoparasitic Infestations/transmission/veterinary, Helminthiasis/transmission, Humans, Protozoan Infections/transmission, Tan J S, Zoonoses/*transmission

Accuracy and efficacy of nuclear scintigraphy for the detection of gastrointestinal bleeding.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of nuclear scintigraphy for the diagnosis and localization of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and to determine whether nuclear scintigraphy accurately predicts the results of angiography.…

Tags: 1997, 80 and over, Abdu R A, Adult, Aged, Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), Garofalo T E, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/*diagnostic imaging, Humans, Middle Aged, Predictive Value of Tests, Radionuclide Imaging, Reproducibility of Results, Retrospective Studies

Cranial shape in fruit, nectar, and exudate feeders: implications for interpreting the fossil record.

At least 29 species of fossil primates have been referred to fruit, nectar, and/or exudate feeding dietary niches. Many studies have detailed the morphological correlates of fruit feeding in comparison to insectivory and folivory. In contrast, few…

Tags: *Dentition, *Diet, *Fruit, 1997, American journal of physical anthropology, Animals, Biological Evolution, Chiroptera, Discriminant Analysis, Dumont E R, Fossils, Primates, Skull/*anatomy & histology, Species Specificity

Recognition of leukemia in skeletal remains: report and comparison of two cases.

Recognition of disease in the archeologic record is facilitated by characterization of the skeletal impact of documented (in life) disease. The present study describes the osteological manifestations of leukemia as identified in the skeletons of two…

Porosity: a curiosity without diagnostic significance.

A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable…

Tags: 1997, American journal of physical anthropology, Anthropology, Bone Matrix/anatomy & histology, Humans, Joints/anatomy & histology, Osteoarthritis/*diagnosis, Physical/*methods, Porosity, Rothschild B M

Ultrastructural aspects of human gallbladder epithelial cells in cholelithiasis: production of anionic mucus.

The surface epithelium of 28 gallbladders removed during elective cholecystectomies and pathology collection was studied ultrastructurally. Focusing on 10 of the 28 cases that were diagnosed as cholecystitis, we found that the epithelium displayed…

Stability of myosin heavy chain isoforms in selectively denervated adult rat muscle spindles.

BACKGROUND: Rat intrafusal fibers consist of multiple isoforms of myosin heavy chains (MHCs) whose expression involves complex interactions among motor neurons, sensory neurons, and muscle cells during spindle development. Little is known about the…

Afferent-inherent regulation of myosin heavy chain isoforms in rat muscle spindles.

Whether afferents exert their morphogenetic influence on spindles through release of trophic factors at intrafusal fiber junctions or via participation in proprioceptive pathways which modulate the motor activity to muscles was investigated by…

Survey of the educational roles of the faculty of anatomy departments.

The anatomy dissection laboratory is a unique experience where medical students begin the transition from layman to physician, and may be a student's first experience with death. Attitudes developed there may influence interactions with future…

Tags: *Education, *Faculty, 1997, Anatomy/*education, Bourguet C C, Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.), Medical, Surveys and Questionnaires, Taslitz N, Whittier W L

Involuntary treatment of substance abuse disorders.

The authors argue for the extension of mandatory treatment to persons gravely disabled by substance abuse. The problem is examined from ideological, clinical, legal, economic, and ethical perspectives.

Tags: *Commitment of Mentally Ill/legislation & jurisprudence, 1997, Adult, Cost of Illness, Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry), Ethics, Galon P A, Human Rights, Humans, Liebelt R A, Male, Medical, New directions for mental health services, Substance-Related Disorders/economics/*rehabilitation, United States

What happens when effective outpatient civil commitment is terminated?

Outpatient civil commitment can be effective in slowing the revolving door for selected patients, but it may not be the best mechanism for ensuring treatment over time.

The isolation and characterization of the soluble and membrane-bound porcine cytochrome b5 cDNAs.

In some male pigs, there is an increased production of the testicular 16 androstene steroids which end up being concentrated in fatty tissue. When the meat is cooked, a disagreeable odor/flavor is produced, a phenomenon known as "boar taint." All…

Tags: 1997, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, Blotting, Complementary/blood/*chemistry/*isolation & purification, Cytochromes b5/blood/*chemistry/genetics/*isolation & purification, DNA, Male, Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*isolation & purification, Molecular Sequence Data, Solubility, Southern, Steggles A W, Swine, Testis/enzymology, VanDerMark P K

Pure embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the fallopian tube.

Rhabdomyosarcoma is a neoplasm of childhood which commonly arises in the genitourinary tract. Reported locations include the bladder, prostate, paratestis, vagina, uterus, cervix, and ovary. Rhabdomyosarcomas have been reported to occur in the…

Tags: 1997, Adolescent, Buchwalter C L, Department of Radiology, Embryonal/*pathology, Fallopian Tube Neoplasms/*pathology, Female, Fromm M, Gynecologic oncology, Hart W R, Humans, Jenison E L, Mehta V T, NEOMED College of Medicine, Obstetrics and gynecology, Rhabdomyosarcoma

New Kohatius (Omomyidae) from the Eocene of Pakistan.

Tags: *Primates, 1997, Animals, Arif M, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Hussain S T, Journal of human evolution, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pakistan, Thewissen J G, Tooth/*ultrastructure

Splenic rupture from colonoscopy. A report of two cases and review of the literature.

Splenic injury after colonoscopy is rare. Only 15 cases previously have been reported in the English literature. Partial capsular avulsion is the proposed mechanism of injury. Any condition causing increased splenocolic adhesions may be a…

Tags: 1997, Colonoscopy/*adverse effects, Espinal E A, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Hoak T, Humans, Middle Aged, Porter J A, Slezak F A, Spleen/injuries, Splenectomy, Splenic Rupture/*etiology/surgery, Surgical endoscopy, Tomography, X-Ray Computed

The effect of intermittent-release intraperitoneal chemotherapy on wound healing.

OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to study the effect on wound healing when intraperitoneal chemotherapy was instilled on a daily basis. STUDY DESIGN: Intraperitoneal carboplatin, Taxol, or saline solution was instilled daily into 70 rats after they…

Tags: 1997, American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Carboplatin/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Holda S, Hopkins M P, Infusions, Laparotomy, Male, Paclitaxel/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Parenteral, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Tissue Adhesions/chemically induced, von Gruenigen V E, Weber B, Wound Healing/*drug effects

Estrogen as a neuromodulator of MPTP-induced neurotoxicity: effects upon striatal dopamine release.

The effects of estrogen upon MPTP-induced neurotoxicity were examined using in vitro superfusion. In Experiment 1, striatal tissue from ovariectomized rats was infused with MPP+ (10 microM), a combination of MPP+ and 17beta-estradiol (300 nM), the…

Tags: *MPTP Poisoning, 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium/toxicity, 1997, Animals, Brain research, Disshon K A, Dluzen D E, Dopamine Agents/*toxicity, Dopamine/*metabolism, Estradiol/pharmacology, Estrogens/*physiology, Female, Neostriatum/drug effects/*metabolism, Neurotransmitter Agents/*physiology, Ovariectomy, Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Discrimination of cocaethylene in rats trained to discriminate between its components.

Two groups of eight male Normalized/National Institutes of Health (N/Nih) rats were used in a food-motivated, 2-lever drug discrimination task with one group being trained to discriminate between 10 mg/kg cocaine vs. 1 g/kg ethanol, whereas the…

Tags: 1997, Animals, Cocaine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, European journal of pharmacology, Male, Rats, Schechter M D

Olanzapine attenuates the reinforcing effects of cocaine.

The possibility that the atypical neuroleptic olanzapine can antagonize the ability of cocaine to produce both conditioned place preference and self-administration in rats was investigated. Pre-treatment with olanzapine (3.0, 4.5 mg/kg, but not 1.5…

Discrete versus cumulative dosing in dose-response discrimination studies.

This study describes the results of a 'side-by-side' comparison of two measurement techniques and two dosing regimens in a discrimination study using rats trained to either 10 mg/kg cocaine or 2 mg/kg 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). The…

Tags: 1997, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine/*pharmacology, Animals, Chemical, Cocaine/*pharmacology, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Administration Schedule, Drug Evaluation, European journal of pharmacology, Male, N-Methyl-3, Preclinical, Rats, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley, Stimulation

Serotonergic mediation of fenfluramine discriminative stimuli in fawn-hooded rats.

Fenfluramine, a drug that induces increased synaptic serotonin, was used to train Fawn-Hooded rats in a drug discrimination paradigm. This strain of rats is thought to possess a genetic serotonin storage abnormality. The intent of the study was to…

Uterine problems discovered after presumed hysterectomy: the Manchester operation revisited.

BACKGROUND: The Manchester operation consists of amputation of the cervix, leading some patients to believe that they have undergone a hysterectomy. CASES: A 69-year-old woman with vaginal discharge proved to have a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma…

Tags: *Hysterectomy, 1997, 80 and over, Aged, Amputation/*methods, Cervix Uteri/*surgery, DeLancey J O, Devine J B, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Hopkins M P, Humans, Obstetrics and gynecology, Uterine Diseases/*diagnosis/surgery, Uterine Prolapse/*surgery

Daily exercise reduces fat, protein and body mass in male but not female rats.

This study was designed to compare the estimated energy balance, linear growth (body and bone lengths) and body composition (all components including body mass, total body water, fat, protein and ash) response to daily spontaneous running (DSR) in…

Drug-drug discrimination: stimulus properties of drugs of abuse upon a serotonergic-dopaminergic continuum.

Ten male N/Nih rats were trained to discriminate between the interoceptive cues produced by the purportedly dopaminergically-mediated drug d-amphetamine at 0.4 mg/kg intraperitoneally administered 20 min prior to training and those produced by the…

Discriminative characteristics of high and low cocaine administration: effect of other psychostimulants.

Two groups of N/Nih male rats were trained to discriminate saline vehicle from either 2.0 mg/kg (n = 10) or 10.0 mg/kg (n = 10) cocaine in a food-motivated, two-lever operant paradigm. The rats trained at the low-dose cocaine took a significantly…

Lesions of the basolateral amygdala abolish the ability of drug associated cues to reinstate responding during withdrawal from self-administered cocaine.

This study investigated the ability of bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) to disrupt cocaine self-administration, responding during extinction sessions, and stimulus cued recovery of extinguished responding in rats. BLA…

Oral contraceptive failure rates and oral antibiotics.

BACKGROUND: Despite anecdotal evidence of a possibility of decreased effectiveness of oral contraceptives (OCs) with some antibiotics, it is not known whether antibiotic use in dermatologic practices engenders any increased risk of accidental…

Enterovesical fistula presenting as life-threatening normal anion gap metabolic acidosis.

Enterovesical fistula is a rare complication of a variety of inflammatory and neoplastic diseases. It usually presents with pneumaturia, fecaluria, urinary tract infections, or irritable bladder symptoms in the setting of either diverticulitis or…

Tags: 1997, Acidosis/*etiology, American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, Department of Internal Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Humans, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Intestinal Fistula/*complications/*diagnosis, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rutecki G W, Saxena R, Urinary Bladder Fistula/*complications/*diagnosis, Whittier F C

Estrogen differentially modulates nicotine-evoked dopamine release from the striatum of male and female rats.

In the present experiment we examined the effects of an in vitro infusion of nicotine (10 microM) upon dopamine release from superfused striatum of castrated male and female rats treated or not treated with estrogen. Estrogen exerted bidirectional…

Tags: 1997, Anderson L I, Animals, Corpus Striatum/drug effects/*metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism, Estradiol/*pharmacology, Female, In Vitro Techniques, Kinetics, Male, Neuroscience letters, Nicotine/*pharmacology, Orchiectomy, Ovariectomy, Rats, Sex Characteristics, Sprague-Dawley

The effects of aging on spinal neurochemistry in the rat.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the aging process alters the basal levels of serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, and their respective metabolites in the spinal cord using high-performance liquid chromatography and electrochemical…

Tags: 1997, Aging/*metabolism, Animals, Brain research bulletin, Chromatography, Crisp T, Dopamine/metabolism, Electrochemistry/methods, Gordon T L, High Pressure Liquid, Inbred F344, King M A, Ko M L, Male, Norepinephrine/metabolism, Rats, Serotonin/metabolism, Spinal Cord/*metabolism

The effects of anticonvulsant drugs on NMDA-EPSP, AMPA-EPSP, and GABA-IPSP in the rat hippocampus.

The effects of phenobarbital, phenytoin, and valproic acid on pharmacologically isolated NMDA-EPSP, AMPA-EPSP, and GABA-IPSPs were examined in rat hippocampal slices. Phenobarbital (0.05 mg/ml) had no effect on the NMDA-EPSP, but decreased the slope…

Tags: 1997, alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid/*pharmacology, Animals, Anticonvulsants/*pharmacology, Brain research bulletin, Brown-Croyts L M, Electrophysiology, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/*pharmacology, Hippocampus/*drug effects/physiology, Inbred Strains, Ko G Y, Male, N-Methylaspartate/*pharmacology, Phenobarbital/pharmacology, Phenytoin/pharmacology, Rats, Teyler T J, Valproic Acid/pharmacology

Vaginovesicostomy using absorbable staples.

Tags: *Surgical Stapling, 1997, British journal of urology, Chronic/complications, Cystostomy/instrumentation/*methods, Female, Green D H, Humans, Khoudary K P, Khoudary M L, Kidney Failure, Recurrence, Summers J L, Suppuration/etiology, Urinary Bladder Diseases/*surgery, Urinary Diversion/adverse effects, Vagina/*surgery, Wilkerson J E

Professional development of medical students: problems and promises.

Observers and critics of the medical profession, both within and without, urge that more attention be paid to the moral sensibilities, the characters, of medical students. Passing on particular moral values and actions to physicians has always been…

Tags: *Character, *Education, *Professional Practice, 1997, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cultural Diversity, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Feminism, Humans, Knowledge, Medical, Medical/*psychology, Models, NEOMED College of Medicine, Students, Theoretical, United States, Wear D

Medullary cavity stenosis of the metacarpals. Scintigraphic appearance.

Tags: 1997, Adult, Arshanskiy Y S, Clinical nuclear medicine, Female, Hanelin L G, Humans, Kenney A J 3rd, Metacarpus/*abnormalities/*diagnostic imaging, Radionuclide Imaging

Golfer's rib stress fracture (Duffer's fracture). Scintigraphic appearance.

Tags: 1997, Clinical nuclear medicine, Fractures, Goyal M, Hanelin L G, Humans, Kenney A J 3rd, Male, Middle Aged, Radionuclide Imaging, Rib Fractures/*diagnostic imaging, Stress/*diagnostic imaging

Testicular capillary hemangioma: an unusual diagnosis suggested by duplex color flow ultrasound findings.

Tags: *Ultrasonography, 1997, Adolescent, Capillary/*diagnostic imaging, Color, Doppler, Hemangioma, Humans, Male, McMahon D R, Nasrallah P F, Stille J R, Testicular Neoplasms/*diagnostic imaging, The Journal of urology

A multicenter, randomized study comparing the efficacy and safety of intravenous and/or oral levofloxacin versus ceftriaxone and/or cefuroxime axetil in treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia.

Five hundred ninety patients were enrolled in a prospective, multicenter, randomized trial comparing the efficacy and safety of 7 to 14 days of levofloxacin treatment with that of ceftriaxone and/or cefuroxime axetil in the management of…

Incidence, etiologic pathogens, and diagnostic testing of community-acquired pneumonia.

Determination of the etiologic pathogens of community-acquired pneumonia has been problematic because of the lack of reliable rapid laboratory diagnostic tools as well as the controversy concerning diagnostic criteria. In the studies reviewed here, a…

Tags: 1997, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/diagnosis/microbiology, Community-Acquired Infections/diagnosis/epidemiology/microbiology, Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, File T M Jr, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pneumonia/diagnosis/epidemiology/*microbiology, Tan J S

Two faces of "rheumatoid arthritis": type a versus type B disease.

Is rheumatoid arthritis one disease or a "catch-all" term for inflammatory arthritis that tends to spare axial joints? We have subdivided "rheumatoid arthritis," utilizing the criteria of periarticular osteopenia and marginally (distributed),…

Tags: 1997, Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases, Rothschild B M

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