Toxic Research

Toxic wastes and kidney disease: research needs.

In 1981 over one billion dollars will be spent sustaining the lives of patients with end-stage renal disease by hemodialysis and renal transplantation, but less than 0.02% of this amount will be invested in studies of nephrotoxicity (1). Any knowledge of the effect of industrial waste on human kidney disease gained from this miniscule effort will probably be serendipitous. Our monumental ignora...

ToxiC inhalaTional injury and ToxiC indusTrial ChemiCals

Anticonvulsive drug (carbamazepine) induced toxic

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Toxic neuropathies.

Toxic neuropathies generally result in length dependent axonal neuropathy with the exception of diphtheria and a few toxic neuropathies. In spite of occurrence of diphtheria in India there is paucity of published reports on diphtheritic neuropathy. Arsenic neuropathy commonly occurs in Bengal and Bangladesh because of ground water contamination whereas in Punjab it is due to contamination of op...

Toxic mushrooms

If you have a problem, no matter how large or small, Current Biology's 'agony aunt' Amber can help. Dear Amber, I pioneered a wonderful, elegant technique that everyone used, and for a while they all looked up to me. Now, a new method has superseded mine, and I'm no longer considered important. What can I do? Dear Technical, Rejoice, science has progressed. It's left you behind, and that's too ...