Showing posts with label Toxicology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toxicology. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Delayed neurological symptoms are immune-mediated

This paper by Stephen Thom in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA postulates an immune-mediated mechanism for the phenomenon of delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae following non-fatal CO exposure.

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

CO and cardio-toxicity

Reuters news agency have a story based on a paper in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine which looks at the cardio-toxicity of CO in rats.
Also mentioned is an earlier paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association which examines long term morbidity and mortality in those exposed non-lethally to carbon monoxide. You can get a free pdf file of this paper from the JAMA website by clicking here.

Tuesday, 10 July 2007

How does CO poison...?

Confused about the toxicology of CO poisoning?
Try this excellent overview from Toxicology in 2003.