Sentences with phrase «in emetic»

It works by blocking the action of substance P, found in the highest concentration in the emetic center.11 Substance P is a neuropeptide that helps regulate mood, anxiety, stress, respiratory rhythm, pain, nausea, and vomiting.11 The receptor for substance P is NK1.11 NK1 receptors are found in both the CRTZ and the emetic center.11 When substance P binds to the NK1 receptor, vomiting occurs.12 Blocking the binding of substance P to NK1 receptors interrupts vomiting stimuli.

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In the medical lore of Europe during the Middle Ages, pastes, emetics, purgatives, emmenagogues, sternutators, convulsants, clysters, physical maneuvers, and pessaries are mentioned.

Clegg and his party had to make one big call: was the country indeed on the verge of Greek - style bankruptcy and in need of David Cameron and George Osborne's emetic austerity medicine?

Although a herb to calm the digestive tract, taken in large doses, Bay Leaf is considered an emetic that produces vomiting.

There are many benefits: You can wear sandals without having an emetic effect on bystanders; you can shift about in bed without snagging the sheets on your rough hooves; you can play footsie with confidence.

a lot and getting set on fire is sort of amusing, I admit, in a way her emetic laughter isn't.

These flowers found in the genus Narcissus contain lycorine, an alkaloid with strong emetic properties (something that triggers vomiting).

The emetic center receives input from the gastrointestinal tract, the vestibular apparatus, and the chemoreceptor trigger zone (CRTZ).3 The emetic center has 4 receptors: neurokinin - 1 (NK1), serotonin, adrenergic, and glucocorticoid.3 The vomiting associated with motion sickness involves M1 - cholinergic receptors (located in the autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, and gastric glands) and H1 - histaminergic receptors (located in the smooth muscles, heart, and central nervous system) that ultimately send signals to the emetic center, causing vomiting.3

(An inflammatory and inaccurate press report that implied that the researchers had killed the cats for the stomach contents — in fact, they used an emetic — led to death threats against Temple.)

The vestibular nuclei send fibers forward in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) which coordinates ocular movements, projects fibers to the spinal cord as the vestibulospinal tract and descending MLF, projects fibers to the cerebellum, and sends fibers to various structures in the brainstem including the emetic center.

If the item appears to be in the esophagus or stomach and not much time has passed, your vet may attempt to have the dog vomit the item up by giving it a weak peroxide solution or other emetic.

It works in the chemoreceptor trigger zone (CRTZ) and the emetic center, where all vomiting signals converge, to block stimuli from both central and peripheral pathways.

Apomorphine is the emetic of choice among many veterinarians for use in dogs.

Fluid therapy can help to restore water levels in the body; nutrients can also be administered through intravenous routes, in severe emetic (severe vomiting) cases.

Trenton Doyle Hancock works in a baroque grotesque, from portraits whose emetic intricacy recalls George Grosz to centerless, Boschian tableaux.