This research is based on epidemiological records of toxicological occurrences in individual records of investigation into pesticide poisoning at the Maringá Intoxication Control Center at the Regional University Hospital of Maringá. The intoxications in patients poisoned from 2002 to 2011, in towns that comprise the Central Northern Paraná Geographic Mesoregion where Maringá is located, were t...

The clinical use of uncoated charcoal haemoperfusion systems, despite their efficacy, has hitherto been prevented by the occurrence of a number of adverse effects including charcoal embolism and marked thrombocytopenia. Charcoal coated with a synthetic hydrogel overcomes many of the disadvantages associated with the use of uncoated material in that there is a much reduced thrombocytopenia and n...

dl-Tryptophan (benzene ring-(14)C) and its metabolites persist longer and in greater quantity in tissues of endotoxin-poisoned mice than in tissues of normal mice. Correspondingly less label is excreted in urine and feces and expired as (14)CO(2) in the poisoned animals. The distribution of label (1.1 x 10(6) dpm per microgram of tryptophan) was relatively constant whether it was administered a...