Intestinal Auto-Intoxication

Lectures on Auto-Intoxication in Disease

Parkinson's disease: the first common neurological disease due to auto-intoxication?

Parkinson's disease may be a disease of autointoxication. N-methylated pyridines (e.g. MPP+) are well-established dopaminergic toxins, and the xenobiotic enzyme nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) can convert pyridines such as 4-phenylpyridine into MPP+, using S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) as the methyl donor. NNMT has recently been shown to be present in the human brain, a necessity for neur...

Lectures on Auto-Intoxication in Disease or Self-Poisoning of the Individual

of physiological and pathological service. Autointoxication is a subject that is of every-day interest to the medical practitioner, and is becoming of greater importance as the knowiedge of bacteria and their products is extended. Putrefactive processes in the intestinal canal and the development of physiological and pathological alkaloids play an important part in many diseased processes until...

Fatal Small Intestinal Ischemia Due to Methamphetamine Intoxication: Report of a Case With Autopsy Results.

Methamphetamine is one of the most common abused drugs, so its various effects on different body organs should be familiar to all physicians. Regarding its gastrointestinal sequels, there are few reports of ischemic colitis induced by its vasoconstrictive effects. This is the first report of isolated small intestinal infarction resulting in death following methamphetamine toxicity. A 40-year-ol...

Rhabdomyolysis and thinner intoxication

 Abstract We report a case of paint thinner intoxication by inhalation, with rhabdomyolysis, renal failure, skin lesions and severe sciatic nerve lesion at gluteal region.