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Despite recently resurrected scientific interest in classical psychedelics, few studies have focused on potential harms associated with abuse of these substances. In particular, the link between psychedelic use and psychotic symptoms has been debated while no conclusive evidence has been presented. Here, we studied an adult population (n = 1032) with a special focus on young (18-35 years) and healthy individuals (n = 701) to evaluate the association of psychedelic drug use with schizotypy and evidence integration impairment typically observed in psychosis-spectrum disorders. Experimental behavioural testing was performed in a subsample of the subjects (n = 39). We observed higher schizotypy scores in psychedelic users in the total sample. However, the effect size was notably small and only marginally significant when considering young and healthy subjects (Cohen's d = 0.13). Controlling for concomitant drug use, none of our analyses found significant associations between psychedelic use and schizotypal traits. Results from experimental testing showed that total exposure to psychedelics (frequency and temporal proximity of use) was associated with better evidence integration (Cohen's d = 0.13) and a higher sensitivity of fear responses (Cohen's d = 1.05) to the effects instructed knowledge in a reversal aversive learning task modelled computationally with skin conductance response and pupillometry. This effect was present even when controlling for demographics and concomitant drug use. On a group level, however, only difference in sensitivity of fear responses to instructed knowledge reached statistical significance. Taken together, our findings suggest that psychedelic drug use is only weakly associated with psychosis-like symptoms, which, in turn, is to a large extent explained by psychiatric comorbidities and use of other psychoactive substances. Our results also suggest that psychedelics may have an effect on flexibility of evidence integration and aversive learning processes, that may be linked to recently suggested therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs in non-psychotic psychiatric populations.

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En el curso académico 2010-2011, la asignatura de Fisicoquímica, obligatoria del segundo curso del Grado en Farmacia en la Facultad de Farmacia de la Universidad San Pablo CEU, será la primera vez que se imparta en este nuevo plan de estudios. Aunque se llevan varios años ensayando nuevas metodologías docentes encaminadas todas ellas a la adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, se pretende, utilizando la experiencia acumulada, implantar algunas nuevas, de acuerdo con los objetivos y competencias, tanto del Módulo como de la Materia en la que se encuentra la Fisicoquímica englobada como asignatura. En este trabajo se presenta la propuesta de utilizar el método del caso, en un escenario multidisciplinar, que además de desarrollar otras competencias en el alumno, le hagan ver la importancia de la asignatura dentro de su titulación(AU)

The subject Physical Chemistry, that is compulsory for the degree in Pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Universidad San Pablo CEU, will be taught in the academic year 2010-11 for the first time in the new study plans. The new teaching methodologies addressed to the adaptation to the European Space for Higher Education have been already tested for several years. However, and taking advantage of the experience achieved, some new ones will be implemented according to the competencies to be developed in the module as well as the subject area where Physical Chemistry is included as a subject. This paper presents the proposal of using the case methodology, in an interdisciplinary environment, where the student – besides acquiring other competencies - is made aware of the importance of the subject in the global context of his degree(AU)

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We present results for organic liquids modeled as linear rods with an embedded point dipole shifted from the geometrical center. Previously, we have obtained results for the vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) of similar systems with centered point dipoles. Our results included both models and applications to real systems. Results presented here are based on a previous work ( Phys. Rev. E 2003, 68, 021201) on the structural properties of these systems where relevant results about the appearance of dimers were found. Now, we have also performed systematic simulations on these systems to calculate the VLE of models with different aspect ratios, dipole shifts, and dipole strengths using the Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo (GEMC) to calculate equilibrium densities and vapor pressure at each temperature. The applications considered here include some important substances such as 1-amines, acetonitrile, and 1-alcohols whose intermolecular parameters were fitted from our model simulations. Furthermore, we have used quantum chemistry calculations to obtain a reliable charge distribution, and we have applied our model to predict the vapor pressure of alpha,omega-diols where experimental results are rather scarce. Our results show a general improvement of the agreement between experiment and models compared to centered dipole models previously used. Results for amines are particularly remarkable.

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El objetivo es calcular la prevalencia para Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae y Klebsiella oxytoca, productoras de betalactamasas espectro extendido, en el Hospital Occidente de Kennedy Nivel III, de Bogotá. Metodología: se analizaron en el Hospital Occidente de Kennedy, durante período comprendido entre el 20 de noviembre de 2002 y el 30 de septiembre de 2003, 3.574 cultivos, en los cuales se identificaron 897 cepas de Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella oxytoca y Escherichia coli, mediante paneles de microdilución del sistema de MicroScan Dried Gram Negative, como prueba de cribado para la identificación de germen y susceptibilidad a betalactamasas de espectro extendido. Luego se realizó una prueba confirmatoria con paneles de sistema MicroScan Dried ESBL Confirmation, recomendada para su uso por el National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS), al evaluar la concentración inhibitoria mínima para ceftazidima y cefotaxima solos y en combinación con ácido clavulánico. Resultados: los resultados mostraron una prevalencia combinada de gérmenes productores betalactamasas igual a 18,6 por ciento (intervalo de confianza del 95 por ciento:16,2 por ciento-21,4 por ciento). La prevalencia para Escherichia coli fue de 9,5 por ciento; para Klebsiella pneumoniae de 43,5 por ciento, y para Klebsiella oxytoca, de 10,3 por ciento. Los índices de resistencia bacteriana más altos correspondieron a ceftriaxona y ceftazidima. Conclusión: el estudio demuestra una alta prevalencia de betalactamasas de espectro extendido en gérmenes gramnegativos, probablemente por el uso excesivo de antibióticos betalactámicos de amplio espectro. Además, se destaca la importancia de la detección con pruebas de susceptibilidad y confirmación, como apoyo para la instauración de medidas de control y vigilancia epidemiológica, con el fin de reducir índices de resistencia bacteriana emergente.

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El desarrollo de pre-eclampsia y/o eclampsia en mujeres grávidas es una complicación frecuente en la pobación de gestantes ecuatorianas. pese a los avances realizados en el estudio de su fisiotalogía, no resulta fácil prevenir su aparición. La gravedad del cuadro clínico es difícil de evaluar y persisten presentar mayores complicaciones y su tratamiento actual es conservador, esperando que con el tiempo mejore la sintomatología y que no se presenten complicaciones. Frente a esta realidad, nosotros hemos evaluado el efecto del legrado de la cavidad uterina posterior al parto, con la finalidad de evaluar su efectividad en la evolución favorable de este tipo de pacientes. Para el efecto, mediante un estudio aleatorio, comparativo, hemos estudiado 48 pacientes divididas en dos grupos: 24 pacientes del Grupo Problema (sometidas a legrado) y 24 pacientes del grupo control (no sometidas a legrado). Las pacientes fueron evaluadas clínica y obstétricamente, y su seguimiento incluyó exámenes clínicos y de laboratorio. En todos los casos se midió la tensión arterial, pulso, frecuencia respiratoria, reflejos osteotendinosos, presencia de edema, proteinuria, diurésis y se efectuaron contajes plaquetarios. El análisis de los resultados se realizaron utilizando pruebas estadísticas descriptivas e inferenciales, y se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados: los dos grupos seon homógeneos y no presentan diferencias significativas al momento de la captación de las pacientes. Los niveles de la tensión arterial distólica de las pacientes sometidas a legrado son significativamente menores, frente al grupo de pacientes sometidas al mismo (p<0.05). Igualmente, el número de plaquetas se recuper significativamente a partir de las 48 horas en el grupo de pacientes legradas, frente a las cunatías menores de plaquetas en las pacintes no sometidas al legrado (p<0.05)

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This study examined the presence of substance P and calcitonin-gene-related peptide (CGRP) immunoreactivities in various milks and infant formulas. Rat milk was obtained from lactating dams between parturition and weaning (0, 2, 5, 10, 15, and 20 d postpartum). Samples of human milk were obtained from seven multiparous, nonsmoking white women, and newborn infant formulas were purchased from local stores. Substance P and CGRP were measured by competitive enzyme immunoassay using acetylcholinesterase-peptide conjugates as tracers. In rats, substance P and CGRP were below detectable concentrations in amniotic fluid from the last day of gestation. In contrast, in milk the concentrations of substance P and CGRP-like immunoreactivities were high on the first day of lactation (3.1 +/- 0.2 and 23.1 +/- 1.5 micrograms/L, respectively), then dropped after day 2 (1.6 +/- 0.7 and 7.5 +/- 0.4 microgram/L, respectively) and remained fairly constant until weaning. Significant concentrations of substance P and CGRP were found in human milk (129.2 +/- 27 ng/L and 4.5 +/- 0.7 microgram/L, respectively, at 15 wk), but substance P or CGRP could not be detected in any of the formulas tested. These data show that milk contains high concentrations of immunoreactive substance P and CGRP. In rats the absence of peptides in amniotic fluid suggests that there is a flood of peptides into the gastrointestinal tract of neonates when suckling is initiated. Significant concentrations of substance P and CGRP in human milk but not in infant formulas may therefore have physiologic implications for neonatal nutrition.

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The effects of a milk diet on gastric acid secretion of rats fed raw bovine milk for 4 days were examined using dispersed gastric cells. Parietal cell acid secretion was estimated by the accumulation of 14C-aminopyrine (AP), an index of secretory function. Basal AP accumulation was significantly increased (60%) by the milk diet. There was a marked upward shift in the dose-response curve of histamine (HA; 10(-8) to 10(-3) M) in milk-fed rats, indicating enhanced sensitivity of parietal cell-H2 receptor to exogenous HA. In contrast, the dose-dependent inhibition of HA-induced AP accumulation by prostaglandin (PG) E2 was significantly reduced, indicating that the parietal cells of milk-fed rats were less sensitive to exogenous PGE2. The PGE2 content of bovine milk was low (less than 20 pg/ml), but the production of endogenous PGE2 by the gastric cells was dramatically increased by the milk diet and exhibited maximal control production rate in the presence of 10 microM arachidonic acid. The increased responsiveness to histamine and the decreased responsiveness to PGE2 indicated that the milk diet induced low histamine and high PGE2 availability in the vicinity of the parietal cell basolateral membrane. This regulation, which involves stimulation of PGE2 production in the gastric mucosa, may underly the inhibition of acid secretion observed in vivo in chronically milk-fed adult rats.

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We previously demonstrated that in rats gastric acid secretion declines after birth and drops steeply on day 12 of life. In the present study, we investigated the part played in this decline by prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from maternal milk. PGE2 content was first measured in the milk of untreated dams 0, 1, 5, 10, 12, 15, and 18 days after parturition. PGE2 levels were high during the first 5 days (123.5-200.5 pg/ml), declined significantly between days 10 and 15 (56.6-85.4 pg/ml; P less than 0.05), and dropped to 18.4 pg/ml on day 18. We also found that depleting milk of PGE2 prevented drop of acid secretion in 12-day-old suckling rats. Injecting lactating dams with indomethacin significantly reduced milk PGE2 content by 65% vs. milk of untreated dams. Surprisingly, administration of sesame oil, the indomethacin vehicle to the dams, increased milk PGE2 content by 182%. In the pups of the indomethacin-treated dams, acid secretion did not drop. On the contrary, in vivo basal and histamine-induced acid output rose markedly by 40 and 50%, respectively, and in vitro the net movements of 36Cl and 22Na measured in the isolated stomach indicated that active Cl- secretion had resumed. Mucosal PGE2 did not appear to be significantly involved in early development of acid secretion because administration of indomethacin to pups from untreated dams did not significantly modify the secretion measured on day 12. Data indicate that maternal milk depletion of PGE2 prevents the drop of gastric acid secretion previously observed in 12-day-old pups and suggest that in infant rats maternal PGE2 plays a physiological part in regulating acid secretion.

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Eremophilus mutisii uses the vascularized central portion of its stomach for aerial respiration, and is a frequent but not obligatory air breather. Air ventilation takes place during a rapid dash to the surface with the expiration of old air preceding inspiration. The frequency of air breathing is affected by aquatic O2 concentration. E. mutisii can survive at least 10 days without air breathing in normoxic water but cannot survive without air access in water containing less than 2.0 ppm O2.

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The effects of a 4-day milk diet on basal and histamine-induced gastric acid secretion were examined in vivo in adult rats. Rats were fed on raw cow's milk only. Their acid secretion was measured in the perfused stomach under basal conditions or after administration of varying doses of histamine. In milk-fed rats, basal secretion rose slightly compared with control secretion (1.86 +/- 0.09 vs. 1.52 +/- 0.06 microEq H+/10 min; p less than 0.01), but maximal secretion in response to noncumulative doses of histamine (range: 7.0-20.0 mg/kg) was inhibited by 57%. The degree of this inhibition was similar to that observed in control rats with an equimolar dose of H2-antagonist cimetidine. These results indicate that in the adult rat, chronic administration of cow's milk strongly inhibits histamine-stimulated acid output.

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Gastric acid secretion was studied in anesthetized rats from day 6 of the postnatal period up to the time of weaning. Basal H+ secretion was detected from day 6 in the first group studied (2.4 +/- 0.2 muEq of H+/10 min/100 g of body weight, BW) and remained constant up to the time of weaning (day 18: 2.5 +/- 0.2 muEq of H+/10 min/100 g of body weight) except for the period between days 10 and 12, when it fell significantly (1.5 +/- 0.06 muEq H+/10 min/100 g of BW on day 12). Both histamine H2 receptor sensitivity and intracellular transduction mechanism activities were evaluated by studying the secretory responses to histamine, impromidine (an H2 receptor agonist), cimetidine (an H2 receptor antagonist), forskolin (a direct adenylate cyclase activator), and dibutyryl (db) cAMP (an analogue of cAMP, the intracellular messenger mediating the response to histamine). The effects of pentagastrin and carbachol were also determined. The secretory responses obtained on days 6, 8, and 18 were similar and represented about threefold increases over basal secretion for all the secretagogues used. After weaning on day 20, both the basal secretion and the response to secretagogues were significantly increased compared with those of unweaned animals. On day 12, the responses were always weaker than on both days 8 and 18. Injection of 1 mg/kg of corticosterone 21 acetate daily from day 8 resulted on day 12 in a basal secretion and a response to histamine equivalent to those measured in 18-day-old pups not injected.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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1. Unidirectional and net Na+ and Cl- fluxes were determined across isolated fetal rat stomach 19-21 days post-coitum, and across the stomach of newborn rats aged 5 or 12 days. 2. On fetal day 19, absorption of both Na+ and Cl- was greater than the short-circuit current, Isc (net Na+ flux, JnetNa = 4.7 +/- 1.0 and net Cl- flux, JnetCl = 5.4 +/- 1.4 mu equiv cm-2 h-1 vs. Isc = 0.9 +/- 0.1 mu equiv cm-2 h-1). Mucosal addition of 10 microM-amiloride did not significantly alter JnetNa, JnetCl, Isc or total conductance. 3. However, on fetal day 20, neutral absorption of NaCl was no longer observed but amiloride had inhibited electrogenic absorption of Na+, and significant active secretion of Cl- was observed (JnetCl = -1.3 +/- 0.6 mu equiv cm-2 h-1). On day 21 (i.e. 24 h before birth), values for JnetNa, JnetCl, and Isc were not different from those determined on adult gastric mucosa. 4. After birth, NaCl transport continued to exhibit its prenatal characteristics on day 5 but not on day 12, when Na+ and Cl- were both absorbed; on that day, JnetNa-Isc was equal to both JnetCl and to the amiloride-insensitive component of Isc, indicating that neutral NaCl absorption had resumed. 5. These data show that in rat stomach, NaCl transport differentiates on fetal day 20, when H+ secretion is first observed, and thereafter undergoes biphasic development. 6. The significant Cl- absorption observed on post-natal day 12 was concomitant with the inhibition of net H+ secretion.

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A bovine milk diet (BM) resulted in remarkable changes in histamine H2 receptor activity (sensitization) and PGE2 receptor activity (desensitization) in gastric glands isolated from adult rats. In contrast, the receptor-cAMP systems sensitive to glucagon(s) and secretin in parietal cells and muco-peptic cells were unaffected. In the two experimental groups, cimetidine produced a parallel displacement of the histamine dose-response curve suggesting competitive inhibition between this classical H2 receptor antagonist and histamine. The BM diet reduced the histidine decarboxylase activity in rat gastric mucosa; the histamine content was not significantly different in control and BM-fed rats. There was no alteration of the circadian rhythm of the parietal cell (ultrastructural changes: microvilli, tubulo-vesicles) determined at intervals of 6 hours in milk-fed rats. Prostaglandins and other components in milk (EGF, somatostatin, etc.) might therefore protect gastric mucosa by a differential control of PGE2 and histamine H2 receptor activity, either directly (PGE2 and EGF in milk) or indirectly (inhibition of endogeneous histamine synthesis/release and stimulation of prostaglandin synthesis/release).

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