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Modeling Neuronal Death and Degeneration in Mouse Primary Cerebellar Granule Neurons
Published on: November 6, 2017
[Sudden death in organophosphoric poisoning--an unaccountable pathophysiologic mechanism?]
O Petriş1, Felicia Gradinariu, M Totolin
1Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr.T. Popa, Facultatea de Medicină, Clinica Medicală a Spitalului de Urgente.
Unlabelled:
Sudden death related in literature to appear in IV-th - VIII-th day from organophosphoric intoxication does not have an unanimous accepted physiopathologic explanation.
Purpose:
Pharmacodynamic study of myocardial trichlorfon level in acute experiment.
Material And Method:
Gas chromatographic determination of myocardial trichlorfon quantity in an experiment on white, male Wistar rats, daily sacrificed for the heart, until the tenth day from an digestive administration of a dose of 200mg/kg trichlorfon. RESULTS (mcg/g myocardial tissue): I day = 8, II day = 13.63, III day = 15, IV day = 18.96, V day = 19.6, VI day = 20.83, VII day = 21.21, VIII day = 21.33, IX day = 19.69, X day = 19.41.
Conclusions:
An organophosphoric direct toxic mechanism is suggested, through accumulation over time of a certain level of myocardial concentration.
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