A phase II clinical trial to assess the safety of clonidine in acute organophosphorus pesticide poisoning

BACKGROUND: An estimated 2–3 million people are acutely poisoned by organophosphorus pesticides each year, mostly in the developing world. There is a pressing need for new affordable antidotes and clonidine has been shown to be effective in animal studies. Our aim was to determine the safety of clon...

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Autores principales: Perera, Polwattage MS, Jayamanna, Shaluka F, Hettiarachchi, Raja, Abeysinghe, Chandana, Karunatilake, Harindra, Dawson, Andrew H, Buckley, Nick A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19691854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-10-73

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19691854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-10-73

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