Objetivo: Comparar a eficácia do ácido valpróico e da Cannabis sativa no tratamento epilepsia através de uma revisão literatura. Métodos: trata-se bibliografica, caráter exploratório cunho qualitativo, realizado nas bases dados Google, Google Acadêmico, SCIELO – Scientific Eletronic Library, Ministério Saúde (MS) Biblioteca Virtual Saúde, com recorte temporal 2013 2022, utilizando-se as palavra...

CONTEXT Cannabis sativa use can impair verbal learning, provoke acute psychosis, and increase the risk of schizophrenia. It is unclear where C. sativa acts in the human brain to modulate verbal learning and to induce psychotic symptoms. OBJECTIVES To investigate the effects of 2 main psychoactive constituents of C. sativa, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta9-THC) and cannabidiol, on regional ...

Konopie siewne (Cannabis sativa) były wykorzystywane przez człowieka od czasów neolitycznych. Stosowano je m.in. do produkcji włókien i lin, jako substancje rekreacyjne oraz jako doskonały środek leczniczy. Wyizolowanie i opisanie struktury jednej z głównych substancji czynnych konopi – Δ9-tetrahydrokannabinolu oraz odkrycie receptorów CB1 i CB2 wiążących kannabinoidy, stało się podstawą w bada...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Several studies have focused on Cannabis sativa (Cs) due to its analgesic potential and its ability to alleviate symptoms of disorders of the central nervous system. However, since marijuana, one of its popular names, is the most common illicit drug throughout the world, it breeds prejudice both among lay people and health care professionals. The objective of this stud...

Riding the global waves of decriminalization, medical or recreational use cannabis (Cannabis sativa spp.) is now legal in more than 50 countries and U.S. states. As governments regulate this formerly illegal crop, there an urgent need to understand how may impact environment. Due challenges researching quasi-legal commodities, peer-reviewed studies documenting environmental impacts are limited,...

In Part I of this article, I examined the role of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in drug approval and then detailed the known risks of medical marijuana (any form of Cannabis sativa used--usually by smoking--to treat a wide variety of pathologic states and diseases). Part II of the article will begin by reviewing the benefits of Cannabis sativa as documented by well designed scientific ...

Trehalose is a nonreducing disaccharide that involved in the regulation of plant responses to variety environmental stresses. 6-phosphate synthase (TPS) and trehalose phosphatase (TPP) are two key enzymes synthesis they widely distributed higher plants. At present, TPS family genes have been systematically identified analyzed many species, but TPP rarely studied. In this study, ten six cannabis...

Different concentrations of THC stimulate formation of reactive oxygen species in cells that are exposed to smoke from the distal end of the “joint,” indicating that cell damage is caused by toxic gas in the smoke. Lung cancer has emerged as the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women in the United States (Edmondson, 2008; Swaney, 2002). Marijuana, a product of the Cannabis s...