| amphotericin B | <drug> An intravenous drug for treatment of cryptococcal meningitis, candidiasis, histoplasmosis and coccidiomycosis and other fungal infections. It is given intravenously. Toxicities are severe and include fevers, chills, headache, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, kidney damage and neutropenia. (05 Feb 1998) |
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| amphotonia | Increased excitability of both the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. Origin: ampho-+ G. Tonos, tension (05 Mar 2000) |
| amphotropic packaging cell lines | <cell culture, molecular biology> Clonal entities that express genes or act as viral vectors that infect cell lines to stably infect and then express genes of choice. Usually an amphotropic virus. (04 Nov 1997) |
| amphotropic virus | An oncornavirus that does not produce disease in its natural host but does replicate in tissue culture cells of the host species and also in cells from other species. (05 Mar 2000) |