NOUN
- a crystalline acid often used in medical research; obtained from ergotic alkaloids
How To Use lysergic acid In A Sentence
- Since 1948 his research topics have included carbohydrate-amino acid relationship in nervous tissue, a study of the mode of action of insulin, fermentation technology, 6-aminopenicillanic acid and penicillinase-stable penicillins, lysergic acid production in submerged culture, and the isolation of new fungal metabolites. Ernst B. Chain - Biography
- The liquid turned out to be distilled morning glory seeds, which contain traces of lysergic acid.
- He began by manipulating its basic nucleus, a compound known as lysergic acid, the fundamental building block of all the ergot alkaloids. One River
- He was conducting research on possible medical applications of various lysergic acid compounds derived from ergot, a fungus that develops on rye grass.
- One of the most widely known artificial hallucinogens is LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
- If LSD changes the way the brain works and also blocks the action of serotonin, and if serotonin, which is chemically related to LSD, is present in the brain, then it is possible, Gaddum wrote in 1954, “that the mental effects of lysergic acid diethylamide are due to interference with the normal action of this HT.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- Gradually he became despondent and pretty much stayed in his room for eight weeks, busy discovering the wonders of opiates, hashish, and lysergic acid diethylamide. Full Frontal Nudity
- Especially useful is ergonovine, the N-(1( )-1-hydroxyisopropyl) amide of d-lysergic acid, which is employed commercially as an oxytocic agent. L.S.D., R.I.P.
- With the help of synthetic chemists, morphine has become hydromorphine; lysergic acid has been converted to methylysergide; cocaine has yielded procaine; physostigmine has been converted into neostigmine and salicin has been changed into acetylsalicylic acid. Chapter 7
- As in the Netherlands for many years, attendees at the conference took for granted a sharp distinction between hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, which are clearly destructive, and relatively non-addictive and visionary substances such as psilocybin, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide, and ayahuasca, as well as marijuana and MDMA (or Ecstasy). Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
