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Intensive care management of organophosphate insecticide poisoning

INTRODUCTION: Organophosphate (OP) insecticides inhibit both cholinesterase and pseudo-cholinesterase activities. The inhibition of acetylcholinesterase causes accumulation of acetylcholine at synapses, and overstimulation of neurotransmission occurs as a result of this accumulation. The mortality r...

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Autores principales: Sungur, Murat, Güven, Muhammed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC37406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11511334