Heavy metal concentrations and clinical symptoms in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia related to cigarette smoking [PDF]
In our study, blood concentrations of lead (Pb), arsenic (As), and cadmium (Cd) and urine concentrations of thallium (Tl) were measured together with related symptoms of heavy metal poisoning in cigarette smoking volunteers diagnosed with schizophrenia ...
Amir Ghaderi +9 more
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Environmental Impact of Silicic Magmatism in Large Igneous Province Events
Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Scott E. Bryan
wiley +2 more sources
Toksičnost talija u humanoj populaciji [PDF]
Thallium is a naturally occurring trace element, widely distributed in the earth’s crust, but at very low concentrations. It does not have a known biological use and does not appear to be an essential element for life.
A. Das +46 more
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Thallium is a heavy metal that is known to induce a broad spectrum of adverse health effects in humans including alopecia, neurotoxicity, and mortality following high dose acute poisoning events.
Kelly A. Shipkowski +12 more
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Animal models of Kashin-Beck disease exposed to environmental risk factors: Methods and comparisons
The main etiological mechanism for Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) is deep chondrocyte necrosis induced by environmental risk factors (ERFs). The scholars have conducted several epidemiological, cellular, and animal model studies on ERFs.
Fang-fang Yu +8 more
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Acute Severe Thallium Poisoning: Early Diagnosis and Treatment
The paper considers the problems of diagnosis of severe thallium salt poisoning in early-stage intoxication, which are associated with the fact that alopecia, a clinical typical symptom of thallium toxicity, appears in the period exceeding two weeks.
G. A. Livanov +5 more
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A case of thallium intoxication by walking in a field
Thallium intoxications are a rare occurrence in forensic sciences. This paper reports a case of chronic thallium poisoning in a couple hospitalized in Milan, Italy, in which toxicological analyses were performed by the Institute of Legal Medicine of ...
Domenico Di Candia +3 more
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Contextual factors among indiscriminate or larger attacks on food or water supplies, 1946-2015 [PDF]
This research updates previous inventories of malicious attacks on food and water to include data from 1946 through mid-2015. A systematic search of news reports, databases and previous inventories of poisoning events was undertaken.
Agence France-Presse +20 more
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Thallium Use, Toxicity, and Detoxification Therapy: An Overview
Thallium (Tl) is released into the environment, where is present at very low levels, from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Tl is considered as one of the most toxic heavy metals; it is a non-essential metal, present in low concentrations in humans.
Giuseppe Genchi +4 more
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Palladium-bismuth intermetallic and surface-poisoned catalysts for the semi-hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol [PDF]
The effects of poisoning of Pd catalysts with Bi and annealing in a polyol (ethylene glycol) were studied on the semi-hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol (MBY).
Anderson, James A. +4 more
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