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ArticleClinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology1999

Effects of amphetamine on development of oral candidiasis in rats.

M Freire-Garabal, M J Núñez, J Balboa, A Rodríguez-Cobo, J M López-Paz, M Rey-Méndez, J A Suárez-Quintanilla, J C Millán, J M Mayán

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Article in Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

M Freire-GarabalDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15705-Santiago de Compostela, Spain. fffregar@usc.es
M J Núñez
J Balboa
A Rodríguez-Cobo
J M López-Paz
M Rey-Méndez
J A Suárez-Quintanilla
J C Millán
J M Mayán
Centre for Nursing Innovation · GBMorpho (United States) · USUniversidade da Coruña · ESUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of amphetamine (0. 4 mg/kg of body weight/day) on the development of oral candidiasis in Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were submitted to surgical hyposalivation in order to facilitate the establishment and persistence of Candida albicans infection. Treatment with drugs (placebo or amphetamine) was initiated 7 days before C. albicans inoculation and lasted until the end of the experiments, day 15 postinoculation. Establishment of C. albicans infection was evaluated by swabbing the inoculated oral cavity with a sterile cotton applicator on days 2 and 15 after inoculation, followed by plating on YEPD (yeast extract-peptone-dextrose) agar. Tissue injury was determined by the quantification of the number and type (normal or abnormal) of papillae on the dorsal tongue per microscopic field. A semiquantitative scale was devised to assess the degree of colonization of the epithelium by fungal hyphae. Our results show that amphetamine exacerbates C. albicans infection of the tongues of rats. Significant increases in Candida counts, the percentage of the tongue's surface covered with clinical lesions, the percentage of abnormal papillae, and the colonization of the epithelium by fungal hyphae were found in amphetamine-treated rats compared to those found in the rats injected with a placebo. The last two parameters increased in rats treated with the placebo compared to the parameters of the untreated control rats.

Indexed as

AmphetamineAnimalsAtrophyCandida albicansCandidiasis, OralColony Count, MicrobialMaleMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningPlacebosRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTongueUltrasonographyAmphetaminePlacebos

Identifiers

PMID10391856
PMCPMC95721
OpenAlexW2165464740

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