Organophosphorus toxicology

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Cabal J., Kassa J., Severa J. A comparison of the decontamination efficacy of foammaking blends based on cationic and nonionic tensides against organophosphorus compounds determined in vitro and in vivo. Human Experimental Toxicology 22, 507-514(2003). 

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Toxicology. The structure-toxicity relationships of organophosphorus compounds have been extensively researched and are relatively well understood. The phosphorus-hased Dame retardants as a class exhibit only moderate-to-low toxicity. 

Needham, L.L. 2005. Assessing exposure to organophosphorus pesticides by biomonitoring in epidemiologic studies of birth outcomes. Environ. Health Perspect. 113(4) 494-498. NRC (National Research Council). 2000. Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury. Washington, DC National Academy Press. 

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Ehrich, M., Jortner, B.S. (2001). Organophosphorus-induced delayed neuropathy. In Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology, 2nd edition (R. Krieger, ed.), pp. 987-1012. Academic Press, San Diego. 

Prozorovskii, V.B., Chepur, S.V. (2001). New data on non-synaptic (distant) effects of organophosphorus inhibitors of cholinesterase. Toksikologicheskii vestnik [Toxicological Bulletin] 4 2-7. (In Russian)... 

Li, Q., Nagahara, N., Takahashi, H., Takeda, K., Okumura, K. (2002). Organophosphorus pesticides markedly inhihit the activities of natural killer, cytotoxic T lymphocyte and lymphocyte-activated killer a proposed inhihiting mechanism via granzyme inhibition. Toxicology 172 181-90. 

Rochu, D., Chabriere, E., Masson, P (2007). Human paraoxonase a promising approach for pre-treatment and therapy of organophosphorus poisoning. Toxicology 233 47-59. 

Tang, J., Rose, R.L., Chambers, J.E. (2006). Metabolism of organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides. In Toxicology of Organophosphate and Carbamate Compounds (R.C. Gupta, ed.), Chapter 10, pp. 127-43. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

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