INTRODUCTION The term narcotic has had wide and inconsistent usage in lay, legal and scientific circles. Some use the word to characterize any drug which produces stupor, insensibility or sleep; many apply it only to derivatives of the opium plant ( `opiates'); others consider the term equivalent to 'addiction-producing'; and in legal matters, 'narcotics' may refer to almost any allegedly dange...

The objective of this study was to determine if the administration of poppy seeds to horses would result in detectable concentrations of morphine in urine and blood samples, as has been shown to occur in humans. In this study blood and urine samples were collected following administration of poppy seeds and morphine sulfate orally to four horses. Urine samples were subjected to enzyme-linked im...

Jonathan M. Backer, M.D., Chair Michael Aschner, Ph.D. Derek M. Huffman, Ph.D. Michael D. Brenowitz, Ph.D. Young-Hwan Jo, Ph.D. C. Fred Brewer, Ph.D. Hayley M. McDaid, Ph.D. Dongsheng Cai, M.D., Ph.D. Roman Perez-Soler, M.D. Lloyd D. Fricker, Ph.D. Jeffrey E. Pessin, Ph.D. Matthew J. Gamble, Ph.D. Charles S. Rubin, Ph.D. I. David Goldman, M.D. Rajat Singh, M.D. Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D. Ji Ying...

A quantitative analysis of morphine and codeine in human urine was performed after oral intake of cakes containing commercially available poppy seeds in order to estimate the possibility of positive doping results. Therefore, eight products from different manufacturers (poppy seeds or baking mixtures) and origin were obtained and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the presence...

Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XLVI (August 2009), 506–517 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Yi Zhao is a Fellow of the Center for Excellence in Brand & Customer Management, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University (e-mail: [email protected]). Ying Zhao is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), a...

Iconicity should be taken into account for the comparison of lexical similarity in sign languages, but it should be excluded for the study of their historical relatedness. Woodward (1978, 1991, 1993) modified Swadesh list by excluding body part signs and pronouns for historical comparison. In addition to body part signs and pronouns, signs with similar iconic motivation are also excluded in thi...

Pulsatile but not Tonic Secretion of Oxytocin Plays the Role of Anti-Precancerous Lesions of the Mammary Glands in Rat Dams Separated from the Pups during Lactation Xiaoyu Liu1, Shuwei Jia1, Ying Zhang1, Yu-Feng Wang1 1Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. Corresponding Author: Yu-Feng Wang, Department of Physiology, School of Basi...

In recent years, much efforts have been made to utilize Cellular Automata, CA, for cryptography due to its intrinsic nature of simple infrastructure and complex behavior. A CA-based image encryption system was presented by Chen et al. in [20-22]. Although it outperforms some traditional cryptosystems in speed and key size, we find that it is defective and vulnerable to chosen-plaintext attack. ...