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Short-term toxicity studies of thallium (I) sulfate administered in drinking water to Sprague Dawley rats and B6C3F1/N mice

Toxicology Reports, 2023
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, Troy D. Hubbard, Kristen Ryan, Suramya Waidyanatha, Helen Cunny, Keith R. Shockley, Joshua L. Allen, Heather Toy, Keith Levine, James Harrington, Laura Betz, Barney Sparrow, Georgia K. Roberts   +12 more
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Outbreak of thallium poisoning among Iraqi patients

Journal of the Saudi Society of Dermatology & Dermatologic Surgery, 2011
BackgroundThallium is the most suitable agent for criminal poisoning of human beings as it is tasteless and odorless. It is usually associated with typical clinical features, mainly dermatological and neurological manifestations.ObjectiveTo report an ...
Khalifa E Sharquie, Adil A Noaimi
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Case report: Successful treatment of a thallium sulfate intoxication in a dog with use of Prussian blue [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Soluble thallium salts are highly toxic, with mortality rates exceeding 70% in animals compared to 6%−15% in humans. Early identification of thallium intoxicated patients and decreasing the toxic load by targeted treatment using Prussian Blue are ...
Fergal M. McDermott, Anne A. Kan, Claudine C. Hunault, Joris H. Robben, Dylan W. de Lange, Marieke A. Dijkman   +5 more
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Poisoning of domestic animals with heavy metals [PDF]

Veterinarski Glasnik, 2009
The term heavy metal refers to a metal that has a relatively high density and is toxic for animal and human organism at low concentrations. Heavy metals are natural components of the Earth's crust. They cannot be degraded or destroyed.
Velev Romel, Krleska-Veleva Nataša, Ćupić Vitomir   +2 more
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Thallium Poisoning

Science, 1932
The toxic action of thallium was first noted in 1865 by Lamy. 1 Thallium has had its widest use in recent years as a rodent poison. For this purpose it is usually mixed with barley and distributed in animal runways. The present report deals with eleven cases of poisoning from the use of barley mixed with thallium sulphate.
JAMES LEHMAN, LEO GAFFNEY
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Thallium Poisoning: Case Report and Scoping Review on Diagnostic Delay and Therapeutic Outcome

Applied Sciences
Thallium poisoning, which may be accidental or criminal, presents with a non-specific clinical picture but is rapidly progressive. A delay in diagnosis may cause the appearance of serious, often irreversible, and sometimes fatal lesions. Prompt treatment
Paolo Maurizio Soave, Francesco Chirico, Matteo Pallocchi, Nicola Magnavita   +3 more
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Thallium - poisoner’s poison: An overview and review of current knowledge on the toxicological effects and mechanisms [PDF]

Current Research in Toxicology
Thallium (Tl) is one of the most toxic metals and its historic use in homicides has led it to be known as “the poisoner’s poison.” This review summarizes the methods for identifying Tl and determining its concentrations in biological samples in recently ...
Junko Fujihara, Naoki Nishimoto
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Heavy metal concentrations and clinical symptoms in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia related to cigarette smoking [PDF]

Scientific Reports
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, Amir Hossein Khoshakhlagh, Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska, Fatemeh Askari-Lemjiri, Fatemeh Alemi, Nader Molavi, Pooya Hazegh, Bahareh Farokhi, Somayeh Ghadami Dehkohneh, Fatemeh Sadat Ghoreishi   +9 more
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Thallium Poisoning

A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children, 1959
A survey of the admissions to the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, for the five-year period from 1954 to 1958 reveals that in a total of 396,220 admissions (excluding psychiatric cases) only two cases of thallium poisoning were recognized. While thallium poisoning is not common, neither is it so rare that it should be seen only twice in 396,000 ...
MICHEL D. STEIN
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Thallium reabsorption via NKCC2 causes severe acute kidney injury with outer medulla-specific calcium crystal casts in rats. [PDF]

Arch Toxicol
Thallium (Tl) is one of the most toxic heavy metals, associated with accidental poisoning and homicide. It causes acute and chronic systemic diseases, including gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases and kidney failure.
Unuma K, Wen S, Sugahara S, Nagano S, Aki T, Ogawa T, Takeda-Homma S, Oikawa M, Tojo A.   +8 more
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