hydroxybutyric acid in a sentence

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1. The chemical gamma-hydroxybutyric acid ( GHB ) is known to promote SWS . In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration permits the use of GHB under the trade name Xyrem to reduce cataplexy attacks and excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy.
2. The 1998 remake finds Ulmer, a reserve linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings, acting on his love for Lucie Manette Darnay not by spiriting her husband _ his friend _ out of prison and taking his place but by slipping gamma hydroxybutyric acid ( GHB ) into her ginger ale.
3. Specific examples include levodopa ( when used in the long term, as in Parkinson's disease ), fluoxetine, metoclopramide, lithium, cocaine, venlafaxine, citalopram, fluvoxamine, methylenedioxyamphetamine ( MDA ), methylphenidate ( used in attention deficit hyperactive disorder ), and gamma-hydroxybutyric acid ( GHB ) and similar gamma-aminobutyric acid-inducing analogues such as phenibut.
4. The bill, introduced by Rep . Fred Upton, R-Mich ., would amend the Controlled Substances Act to place gamma hydroxybutyric acid, a central nervous system depressant also known as GHB, on a list of drugs that are the most strictly regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act because of their danger.
5. Knowing she had only a limited window of time to replace the fetus, she stole a date rape drug ( gamma-hydroxybutyric acid ) from Eve Russell and slipped it into Ethan's wine, then dressed up like Gwen and sneaked into his bed resulting in Theresa getting pregnant with a second baby.
6. 2-Hydroxybutyrate, the conjugate base of 2-hydroxybutyric acid, is produced in mammalian tissues ( principally hepatic ) that catabolize L-cysteine for glutathione synthesis become limiting, so homocysteine is diverted from the transmethylation pathway forming methionine into the transsulfuration pathway forming cystathionine . 2-Hydroxybutyrate is released as a byproduct when cystathionine is cleaved to cysteine that is incorporated into glutathione.