Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in Ecuador by Ana María Cerón Cáceres

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Cutaneous Necrotizing Vasculitis and Leukopenia in a Cocaine User: Is Levamisole the Culprit? by Lara El Khoury, Nabil Zeineddine, Richard Felix, Mark Goldstein

“…Over the past few years, it has been identified as an adulterant in cocaine and reported to cause cutaneous vasculitis in cocaine users. …”
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Crack Cocaine-Induced Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities Are Reversed by Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion by Carlos Henrique Miranda, Antônio Pazin-Filho

“…We report a dramatic case of a 19-year-old man with crack cocaine overdose with important clinical complications as cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation and epileptics status. …”
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Rare Case of Cocaine-Induced Aortic Aneurysm: A Near Dissection Event by Ranju Kunwor, AnnMarie Canelas

“…There are no clear guidelines about screening cocaine abusers with CT scan of the chest. We do not know if the number of years of cocaine use or the amount of cocaine use can be associated with higher incidence of aortic aneurysm or dissection. …”
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Impairment of cocaine-mediated behaviours in mice by clinically relevant Ras-ERK inhibitors by Alessandro Papale, Ilaria Maria Morella, Marzia Tina Indrigo, Rick Eugene Bernardi, Livia Marrone, Francesca Marchisella, Andrea Brancale, Rainer Spanagel, Riccardo Brambilla, Stefania Fasano

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Capturing the Data Uncertainty Change in the Cocaine Consumption in Spain Using an Epidemiologically Based Model by Christopher Anaya, Clara Burgos, Juan-Carlos Cortés, Rafael-J. Villanueva

“…A probabilistic model is proposed to study the transmission dynamics of the cocaine consumption in Spain during the period of 1995–2011. …”
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Long-Term Follow-Up in Children with Anisocoria: Cocaine Test Results and Patient Outcome by Fabienne C. Fierz, Christina Gerth-Kahlert

“…Systemic investigation was performed in 11 of the patients with a positive and in 2 of the patients with an inconclusive cocaine test result. Mediastinal Hodgkin lymphoma was found in one patient with an inconclusive cocaine test result. …”
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NETosis Secondary to the Use of Levamisole-Adulterated Cocaine: A Likely Underlying Mechanism of Vasculopathy by Manuela Osorio, Isabel Velásquez, Ruben Vargas, Adriana Vanegas-García, Mauricio Rojas, Gloria Vásquez, Carlos Muñoz-Vahos

“…Neutrophils were exposed to levamisole, cocaine, a cocaine-levamisole mixture, and sera pools from healthy controls and patients with LAC-associated vasculopathy. …”
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Correction: Impairment of cocaine-mediated behaviours in mice by clinically relevant Ras-ERK inhibitors by Alessandro Papale, Ilaria Maria Morella, Marzia Tina Indrigo, Rick E Bernardi, Livia Marrone, Francesca Marchisella, Andrea Brancale, Rainer Spanagel, Riccardo Brambilla, Stefania Fasano

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The grave consequences of brief gratification: acute kidney harm and the possible association of cocaine use by Anna Oleszczuk, Agnieszka M. Grzebalska, Szymon Kosmala, Julia Kozieł, Noemi Kufrejska

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Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Bioenergetics, Sleep, and Cognitive Performance in Cocaine-Dependent Individuals by George H. Trksak, Bethany K. Bracken, J. Eric Jensen, David T. Plante, David M. Penetar, Wendy L. Tartarini, Melissa A. Maywalt, Cynthia M. Dorsey, Perry F. Renshaw, Scott E. Lukas

“…In cocaine-dependent individuals, sleep is disturbed during cocaine use and abstinence, highlighting the importance of examining the behavioral and homeostatic response to acute sleep loss in these individuals. …”
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Nicotinic α7 receptors on cholinergic neurons in the striatum mediate cocaine-reinforcement, but not food reward by Michael Fritz, Michael Fritz, Michael Fritz, Priscila Batista Rosa, Daniel Wilhelms, Daniel Wilhelms, Maarit Jaarola, Johan Ruud, David Engblom, Anna M. Klawonn, Anna M. Klawonn, Anna M. Klawonn, Anna M. Klawonn

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Dexmedetomidine Use in the Setting of Cocaine-Induced Hypertensive Emergency and Aortic Dissection: A Novel Indication by Fahad Javed, Alexandre Miguel Benjo, Kiran Reddy, Muhammad Shoaib Akram, Shahzeb Afsar Khan, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Girish Nadkarni, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog

“…We report here aortic dissection in a patient with cocaine abuse which did not respond to traditional medication regimes used currently in this setting. …”
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Beta Blocker Therapy in Heart Failure Patients with Active Cocaine Use: A Systematic Review by Baldeep K. Mann, Janpreet S. Bhandohal, Mohammad Saeed, Gerald Pekler

“…Background. Cocaine use is associated with multiple cardiovascular complications including heart failure. …”
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The Gut Microbiome Regulates the Psychomotor Effects and Context-Dependent Rewarding Responses to Cocaine in Germ-Free and Antibiotic-Treated Animal Models by Andrew D. Winters, Dina M. Francescutti, David J. Kracht, Diptaraj S. Chaudhari, Branislava Zagorac, Mariana Angoa-Perez

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Non-Invasive Point-of-Care Detection of Methamphetamine and Cocaine via Aptamer-Based Lateral Flow Test by Bilge Erkocyigit, Ezgi Man, Ece Efecan, Ozge Ozufuklar, Deniz Devecioglu, Basak Bagci, Ebru Aldemir, Hakan Coskunol, Serap Evran, Emine Guler Celik

“…Motivated by this problem, a point of care (POC) test based on lateral flow assay (LFA) was developed for the detection of cocaine (COC) and methamphetamine (MET) in saliva which has been selected as the matrix for this study due to its rapid and non-invasive collection process. …”
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Systemic Levamisole-Induced Vasculitis in a Cocaine User without Cutaneous Findings: A Consideration in Diagnosis by Gillian G. Baptiste, Anastasia-Stefania Alexopoulos, Tahsin Masud, Joanna M. Bonsall

“…Levamisole is a known immunomodulating agent frequently used as a cutting agent in cocaine consumed in the United States today. Numerous cases of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis connected with the use of levamisole-adulterated cocaine have previously been reported in the literature, classically characterized by a retiform purpuric rash. …”
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A Spontaneous Isolated Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection Associated with Cocaine Abuse: A Pathomechanistic Association by Rayan S. El-Zein, Jeffrey Sobecki, Roy Greenberg, Michael Keleher, Robert A. Palma

“…A 38-year-old African American male with hypertension and alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco abuse presented with abdominal pain and recent cocaine use. …”
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Limb Pain as Unusual Presentation of a Parietal Intraparenchymal Bleeding Associated with Crack Cocaine Use: A Case Report by Alan Lucerna, James Espinosa, Taimur Zaman, Risha Hertz, Douglas Stranges

“…Here we present a case of a 65-year-old male with complaints of left arm pain and allodynia (specifically light touch to any part of the left arm produced significant discomfort) who was found to have a right parietal lobe intraparenchymal bleed after smoking crack cocaine. Acute central pain is mainly associated with parietal, thalamic, and brainstem lesions. …”
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Nanoarchitectonics of Biofunctionalized Hydrogen‐Terminated 2D‐Germanane Heterostructures as Highly Sensitive Biorecognition Transducers: The Case Study of Cocaine Drug by Yiming Lei, Ángel Campos‐Lendínez, Xavier Sala, Jordi García‐Antón, Jose Muñoz

“…After an accurate material characterization, the resulting ssDNA/Au@GeH heterostructure is drop‐casted on a fluorine‐doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode for impedimetrically monitoring cocaine as a model drug. Interestingly, the aptamer–cocaine interactions hinder the interfacial electron‐transfer process of the benchmark [Fe(CN)6]3−/4− redox marker with increasing concentration of the cocaine target, leading to a detection limit as low as 4.9 ± 0.1 aM, the lowest one reported in literature by far. …”
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