Submited: January 22, 2008 Accepted: June 25, 2008 Abstract Objective: Lithium has been successfully employed to treat bipolar disorder for decades, and recently, was shown to attenuate the symptoms of other pathologies such as Alzheimer’s disease, Down’s syndrome, ischemic processes, and glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity. However, lithium’s narrow therapeutic range limits its broader use. Ther...

Locoweed (Oxytropis sericea) is a serious poisoning problem for horses grazing on infested rangelands in the western United States. Our objectives were to determine 1) whether lithium chloride or apomorphine would condition aversions to palatable foods, and at what doses, and 2) whether horses could be averted to fresh locoweed in a pen and grazing situation. Apomorphine was not an acceptable a...

Random migration, chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and bactericidal ability of neutrophils from 5 patients receiving lithium carbonate were compared with those of neutrophils from healthy donors. These cells functioned normally in all respects. Neither sera from patients receiving lithium carbonate nor the addition of lithium chloride to control cells in vitro significantly altered their functional ca...

Print ISSN 0974-0678, Online : 2320-9593, www.bionanofrontier.org ABSTRACT: The importance of nitric oxide (NO) in biological systems is very well established. It is known to play a vital role in functions of the nervous, circulatory, respiratory, defense and reproductive systems and also to act as an important signaling molecule. Lithium salts are widely used in the treatment of a range of men...

The parabrachial nucleus (PBN) has been proposed as the associative site for conditioned taste aversion. Previous evidence has shown that functional blockade of the PBN by tetrodotoxin (TTX) produces retrograde disruption of lithium-induced taste aversions in rats. However, given the PBN role in processing visceral cues and the long duration of the lithium-induced aversive effects, an interpret...

Dissolving lithium chloride and aluminium chloride in boiling para- or meta-xylene and keeping the colourless solution at room temperature led to crystal growth of a new modification of lithium tetra-chlorido-aluminate, LiAlCl4, which represents a second modification (oP12, Pmn21) of the ternary salt besides the long known monoclinic form [LiAlCl4(mP24, P21/c); Mairesse et al. (1977 ▸). Cryst. ...

Inhibition of purified AMP-deaminase from chicken breast muscle by phosphate esters and inorganic phosphate has been investigated. When tested at a concentration of 3 mM, in the presence of 0.15 M potassium chloride, the order of effectiveness as inhibitors of deaminase activity was: 2,3diphosphoglyceric acid, 3-phosphoglyceric acid, 2-phosphoglyceric acid, 2-phosphoenolpyruvate, fructose 1,6di...

Since the salting-in agents guanidinium chloride, urea, and lithium perchlorate increase the surface tension of water, the salting-in phenomenon does not reflect easier cavity formation in water. Therefore, these salting-in agents must be directly contributing to the solvation of a solute such as benzene in water, probably by a direct solvation interaction. The increased surface-tension effects...

a new dimeric orthopalladated complex was synthesized via reaction of 2,3-dimethoxy benzaldehyde oxime with palladium chloride and lithium chloride in methanol as solvent and sodium acetate as base at room temperature. the catalytic activity of this dimeric [pd{c6h2(-ch=noh)-(ome)2-2,3}(µ-cl)]2 complex as an efficient, air, and moisture tolerant catalyst was investigated in mizoroki–heck cross ...