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Effects of cocaine intoxication on the threshold for stun gun induction of ventricular fibrillation.

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess cocaine's effects on Taser-induced ventricular fibrillation (VF) threshold in a pig model. BACKGROUND Stun guns are increasingly used by law enforcement officials to restrain violent subjects, who are frequently intoxicated with cocaine and other drugs of abuse. The interaction of cocaine and the stun gun on VF induction is unknown. METHODS We tested f...

Applicability of the Dendrimer-quantum Dot (Den-QD) Bioconjugate as a Novel Nanocomposite for Signal Amplification in the Fabrication of Cocaine Aptasensor

A selective aptasensor was developed using the electrochemical transduction method for the ultrasensitive detection of cocaine. In this method, dendrimer-quantum dot (Den-QD) bioconjugate was utilized as a specific nanocomposite to efficiently fabricate the aptasensor. CdTe QD, which carries highly significant properties, was immobilized on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode (GCE), and po...

Historic Times v. Sullivan and Gertz v. Welch Supreme Court Decisions and Online Social Media Libel Law

This article re-examines two historic Supreme Court’s decisions—the 1964 Times v. Sullivan and the 1974 Gertz v. Welch—as they apply to the digital era. The Court’s decision in Sullivan established the federal legal guidelines for a victim to prove a libel case including actual malice. In Gertz v. Welch the Court established three categories of public figures who must prove actual malice in a l...

A Mechanism for the Inhibition of Neural Progenitor Cell Proliferation by Cocaine

BACKGROUND Prenatal exposure of the developing brain to cocaine causes morphological and behavioral abnormalities. Recent studies indicate that cocaine-induced proliferation inhibition and/or apoptosis in neural progenitor cells may play a pivotal role in causing these abnormalities. To understand the molecular mechanism through which cocaine inhibits cell proliferation in neural progenitors, w...

Application de la méthode par diffusion d'Oudin-Oakley pour le dénombrement des antigènes tétaniques