Toxicology or Effects of Poisons

What REALLY Poisons Birds: Avian Toxicology

Birds have historically served as sentinels for human toxicity in the environment. Birds were used as sentinels for coal miners in the U.S. and England until the middle of the last century. Dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, methane and other poisonous gasses would affect sentinel canaries before they affected the miners, thus warning them of a dangerous environment. As our knowledge of avian...

Book Review: Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology

A General System of Toxicology, or a Treatise on Poisons Drawn from the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, &c.

New Platforms For Drug Screening And Toxicology: Necessity Or Need?

The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body that is responsible for more than 500 vital functions, including biosynthesis of major plasma proteins, immunity against infectious pathogens, balancing energy metabolism and xenobiotics biotransformation (1). One of the main functions of the liver is an important role in drug metabolism (2). Since developing new drug compounds into mark...

Indian Snake-Poisons, Their Nature and Effects

Indian Snake-poisons, their Nature and Effects By A. J. YVali, m. d. f Dond.), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; of the Medical Staff H. At.'s Indian Army* This work, which is dedicated to Sir Joseph Fayrer, is in many respects a distinct advance upon our knowledge of snake-poisons, and especially so in those chapters in which the characteristic physiological effects of the v...