A quarantine treatment using bale compression (32 kg/cm pressure) and phosphine fumigation (61 g/28.3 m aluminum phosphide for 7 d at 20 C) was approved to control Hessian ßy, Mayetiola destructor (Say), in large-size, polypropylene fabric-wrapped bales exported from the western states to Japan. No Hessian ßy puparia (45,366) survived to the adult stage in infested wheat, Triticum aestivum L., ...

BACKGROUND Aluminium phosphide (AlP) is used as a fumigant. It produces phosphine gas which is a mitochondrial poison. Although this poisoning has been repeatedly reported in literature with a high mortality rate, there is no known antidote for AlP intoxication. In the present study, we studied the effects of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) on the survival time of AlP intoxicated rats. METHODS I...

Fifteen consecutive patients presenting with dysphagia due to aluminum phosphide (AP)-induced esophageal strictures were studied retrospectively to elucidate the natural history of AP-induced esophageal strictures and to evaluate the efficacy of bougie dilation. The median time lag between consumption of AP and occurrence of dysphagia was 3 weeks. All patients had a single stricture and could b...

pant h & tripathi s. 2011. Fumigation of wood with aluminium phosphide for protection against fungi. The search for alternatives to the environmentally harmful fumigant methyl bromide has led to the evaluation of phosphine as preshipment and in-transit treatments for logs and sawn timber. The biological activity of aluminium phosphide against wood decaying fungi was determined using agar plate ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate potential oxidative stress in patients with acute phosphide poisoning and the effect of vitamin C. METHODS Participants were females and divided into three groups; group I: healthy volunteers group II: healthy volunteers received vitamin C, group III: patients with acute phosphide poisoning received the supportive and symptomatic treatment and group IV: patients with acu...

We demonstrate second harmonic generation in photonic crystal nanocavities fabricated in the semiconductor gallium phosphide. We observe second harmonic radiation at 750 nm with input powers of only nanowatts coupled to the cavity and conversion effciency P(out)/P(2)(in,coupled)=430%/W. The large electronic band gap of GaP minimizes absorption loss, allowing effcient conversion. Our results are...