Used to classify article posts by terms used for medical conditions. It’s mostly aimed at practitioners and physicians.

Cannabinoids and brain injury: therapeutic implications.

Authors: Raphael Mechoulam, David Panikashvili, Esther Shohami
Trends in Molecular Medicine, February 2002

Mounting in vitro and in vivo data suggest that the endocannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol, as well as some plant and synthetic cannabinoids, have neuroprotective effects following brain injury. Cannabinoid receptor agonists inhibit glutamatergic synaptic tran…

Maternal use of cannabis and pregnancy outcome.

Authors: David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood, Kate Northstone, ALSPAC Study Team
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, January 2002

OBJECTIVE: To document the prevalence of cannabis use in a large sample of British women studied during pregnancy, to determine the association between cannabis use and social and lifestyle factors and assess any independent effects on pregnancy outcome. DESIGN: Self-completed…

Chronic Cannabis Use in the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program

Authors: Ethan Russo, Mary Lynn Mathre, Al Byrne, Robert Velin, Paul J. Bach, Juan Sanchez-Ramos, et al
Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics, 2002

The Missoula Chronic Clinical Cannabis Use Study was proposed to investigate the therapeutic bepnefits and adverse effects of prolonged use of “medical marijuana” in a cohort of seriously ill patients. Use of cannabis was approved through the Compassionate Inves-tigational New…

A literature review of the consequences of prenatal marihuana exposure.

Authors: P.A. Fried, A.M. Smith
Neurotoxicology and teratology, January-February 2001

In spite of marihuana being the most widely used illegal drug among women of reproductive age, there is a relative paucity of literature dealing with the neurobehavioral consequences in offspring–particularly the longer-term effects. However, there is a degree of consistency…

Suppression of nerve growth factor Trk receptors and prolactin receptors by endocannabinoids leads to inhibition of human breast and prostate cancer cell proliferation.

Authors: Dominique Melck, Luciano De Petrocellis, Pierangelo Orlando, Tiziana Bisogno, et al
Endocrinology, January 2000

Anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), two endogenous ligands of the CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptor subtypes, inhibit the proliferation of PRL-responsive human breast cancer cells (HBCCs) through down-regulation of the long form of the PRL receptor (PRLr). Here we rep…

The endogenous cannabinoid anandamide inhibits human breast cancer cell proliferation.

Authors: Luciano De Petrocellis, Dominique Melck, Antonella Palmisano, Tiziana Bisogno, et al
PNAS, 7 July 1998

Anandamide was the first brain metabolite shown to act as a ligand of “central” CB1 cannabinoid receptors. Here we report that the endogenous cannabinoid potently and selectively inhibits the proliferation of human breast cancer cells in vitro. Anandamide dose-dependently inhi…

Behavioral outcomes in preschool and school-age children exposed prenatally to marijuana: a review and speculative interpretation.

Authors: Peter A. Fried
NIDA research monograph, 1996

INTRODUCTION: In considering the relationship between marijuana use during pregnancy and the impact of such use upon the behavioral outcome of the young children of these pregnancies, the paucity of objective information is striking and, from one point of view, quite surprisin…

The impact of cocaine and marijuana use on low birth weight and preterm birth: a multicenter study.

Authors: Patricia H. Shiono, Mark A. Klebanoff, Robert P. Nugent, Mary Frances Cotch, et al
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, January 1995

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to evaluate prospectively the effects of cocaine and marijuana use on pregnancy outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective multicenter cohort study was conducted at seven university-based prenatal clinics in the United States from 1984 to 1989. The cohort des…

Prenatal marijuana exposure and neonatal outcomes in Jamaica: an ethnographic study.

Authors: Melanie C. Dreher, Kevin Nugent, Rebekah Hudgins
Pediatrics, February 1994

OBJECTIVE: To identify neurobehavioral effects of prenatal marijuana exposure on neonates in rural Jamaica. DESIGN: Ethnographic field studies and standardized neuro-behavior assessments during the neonatal period. SETTING: Rural Jamaica in heavy-marijuana-using population. PA…

Five-year follow-up of rural Jamaican children whose mothers used marijuana during pregnancy.

Authors: Jill S. Hayes, R Lampart, Melanie C Dreher, Lisa Morgan
The West Indian medical journal, September 1991

This research provides data on the development of 59 Jamaican children, from birth to age 5 years, whose mothers used marijuana during pregnancy. Approximately one-half of the sample used marijuana during pregnancy and were matched with non-users according to age, parity, and…

Maternal marijuana use during lactation and infant development at one year.

Authors: Susan J. Astley, Ruth E. Little
Neurotoxicology and teratology, March-April 1990

Prenatal marijuana exposure is associated with adverse perinatal effects. Very little is known about the effect of postnatal marijuana exposure on infant development. Postnatal exposure can result from maternal use of marijuana during lactation. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (T…

Cannabinoid receptor localization in brain

Authors: M Herkenham, A B Lynn, M D Little, M R Johnson, L S Melvin, B R de Costa, K C Rice
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 1990

[3H]CP 55,940, a radiolabeled synthetic cannabinoid, which is 10-100 times more potent in vivo than delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol, was used to characterize and localize a specific cannabinoid receptor in brain sections. The potencies of a series of natural and synthetic cannabi…