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quinine
quinine (kwin-een) n. a drug used in the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum. Small doses of quinine are used to treat nocturnal leg cramps. It is administered by mouth or injection; large doses can cause severe poisoning (see
cinchonism).
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Quinine allergy causing acute severe systemic illness: report of 4 patients manifesting multiple hematologic, renal, and hepatic abnormalities.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Quinine is widely used for the common symptom of leg cramps. Quinine tablets require a prescription, but quinine and the product from which it is derived, cinchona, are also available without prescription. They are components of over-the...
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Quinine affects the response properties of compound action potentials elicited by periodic click trains
Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The effects of systemically applied quinine on the compound action potential (CAP...A dose of 200 mg/kg body weight of quinine hydrochloride was administered intramuscularly...stimulus was abnormal after administration of quinine. The amplitude of the CAPs elicited by...
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Quinine Substitutes in the Confederate Army
Magazine article from: Military Medicine; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...unreliable supply and high cost of quinine forced the Confederate Army to use...alternative treatments for malaria. Many quinine substitutes were mentioned in the...often issued substitute remedies when quinine was requisitioned. Most alternative...
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Quinine and Its Salts: Trends and Prospects in International Trade covers the 2003-2008 period, with more emphasis on foreign trade in 2008.
M2 Presswire; 8/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...12 August 2009-Research and Markets: Quinine and Its Salts: Trends and Prospects in...researchandmarkets.com/research/235a2e/quinine_and_its_sa) has announced the addition of the "Quinine and Its Salts: Trends and Prospects in...
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Quinine-induced thrombocytopenia in a 64-year-old man who consumed tonic water to relieve nocturnal leg cramps
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Quinine-Induced Thrombocytopenia in a 64-Year...Cramps To the Editor: The addition of quinine to seltzer water to create tonic water...British Raj in India. The bitter flavor of quinine is appealing to some,' and quinine is...
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FDA Advances Effort Against Marketed Unapproved Drugs FDA Orders Unapproved Quinine Drugs from the Market and Cautions Consumers About Off-Label Use of Quinine to Treat Leg Cramps.
M2 Presswire; 12/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...Unapproved Drugs FDA Orders Unapproved Quinine Drugs from the Market and Cautions Consumers About Off-Label Use of Quinine to Treat Leg Cramps(C)1994-2006...unapproved drug products containing quinine, a drug used to treat malaria, citing...
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Artemisinin derivatives versus quinine in treating severe malaria in children: a systematic review.(Research)(Report)
Magazine article from: Malaria Journal; 10/17/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...malaria case fatality rate. Over the years quinine has been the mainstay for treating severe...have been concerns that the efficacy of quinine is declining in some parts of South East Asia and quinine resistance has been documented in Africa...
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PILLS & ILLS: Quinine for leg cramps discouraged
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 2/18/2007; ; 648 words
; Q: Years ago I used quinine sulfate pills to relieve my nighttime...available anymore? A: The FDA removed quinine from the OTC market in early 1995 due to safety concerns. Prescription-only quinine sulfate remained available, though later...
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OREGON'S LOSSES ARE SPU'S GAINS QUININE, ROSEMOND ARE HAPPY FALCONS.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...first of February last year, and Donte Quinine sat in Ernie Kent's office, listening...everything was going to be all right. Quinine was going to get more playing time than...deserved and he wasn't having fun. Quinine had no idea McShane was contemplating...
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Breakthrough in combating the side effects of quinine.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science; 8/2/2009; 700+ words
; Discovered back in the 1600s quinine was the first effective treatment...Halley Stewart Trust, found that quinine can block a cell's ability to take...genetics to examine the effects of quinine on a collection of 6000 yeast mutants...
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Quinine
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Quinine Quinine is an alkaloid obtained from the bark of several species of the cinchona tree. Until the development of synthetic drugs, quinine was used as the primary treatment of malaria, a disease that kills over...
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quinine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
quinine , white crystalline alkaloid with a bitter...quinacrine, chloroquine, and primaquine, quinine was the specific agent in the treatment...bark to Europe from South America, and quinine was isolated in 1820 by the French chemists...
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quinine prophylaxis
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
quinine prophylaxis the administration of quinine to prevent malaria.
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Herapath, William Bird
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...usable crystals of the iodosulfate of quinine (now known as herapathite), which he...Properties of a Newly Discovered Salt of Quinine, Which Crystalline Substance Possesses...New Polarizing Crystals Produced From Quinine, ” ibid ., 4 (1852), 186...
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Woodward, Robert Burns
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...ways to synthesize the antimalarial drug quinine. At age sixteen Woodward entered the...his boyhood dreams: the synthesis of quinine. What Woodward and Doering actually reported...quinotoxine, a molecule whose conversion into quinine had been reported by the German chemist...
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