Acute poisoning with organophosphate based pesticides is a notable cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world, but much less common in the United Kingdom. However, the potential for frequent low level exposures to organophosphates exists for many occupational groups including agricultural workers, sheep dippers, and pesticide sprayers. Over the past decade an increasing number of ...

A homologous series of fire-retardant oligoalkyleneoxy-phosphates was synthesized for evaluation as liquid or gel-type electrolyte media for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and secondary lithium batteries. Unoptimized DSSC electrolyte formulations for DSSCs achieved ionic conductivities as high as 5.71 × 10(-3) S · cm(-1) and DSSC test-cell efficiencies up to 3.6% as well as Voc, Jsc, and ff...

Antimitotic effects have been reported for several members of the class of compounds which may be described as the simple substituted phenols (Muhling et al., 1960, Hindmarsh 1951, Levan and Tjio 1948, Loveless and Revell 1949, Clowes 1951). Muhling et al. (1960) showed that complex derivatives such as the phenoxyalkyl acids exhibit an effect on mitosis similar to that of the phenols, and sugge...

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) (EC 3.1.1.7) is the primary cholinesterase belongs to carboxylesterase family . It is an acetylhydrolase, found in many types of conducting tissues. AChE is also found on the red blood cell membranes and blood plasma (EC 3.1.1.8, ChE) [1]. The function of AChE is the termination of ACh at the junctions of the various cholinergic nerve endings with their post-synaptic...

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