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The use of the osmole gap as a screening test for the presence of exogenous substances. 利用渗透压间隙作为外源物质存在的筛选试验。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423030-00005
Roy A Purssell, Larry D Lynd, Yoshikata Koga
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引用次数: 38
The irrationality of the present use of the osmole gap: applicable physical chemistry principles and recommendations to improve the validity of current practices. 目前使用渗透压间隙的不合理性:适用的物理化学原理和建议,以提高当前做法的有效性。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423030-00006
Yoshikata Koga, Roy A Purssell, Larry D Lynd
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引用次数: 24
Herbal interactions involving cytochrome p450 enzymes: a mini review. 涉及细胞色素p450酶的草药相互作用:一个小回顾。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423040-00004
Rupika Delgoda, Andrew C G Westlake
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引用次数: 133
Digoxin-specific antibody fragments: how much and when? 地高辛特异性抗体片段:多少,何时?
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423030-00001
D Nicholas Bateman
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引用次数: 32
Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid: neurobiology and toxicology of a recreational drug. -羟基丁酸:一种娱乐性药物的神经生物学和毒理学。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423010-00002
C Guin Ting Wong, Katherine F Y Chan, K Michael Gibson, O Carter Snead
{"title":"Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid: neurobiology and toxicology of a recreational drug.","authors":"C Guin Ting Wong,&nbsp;Katherine F Y Chan,&nbsp;K Michael Gibson,&nbsp;O Carter Snead","doi":"10.2165/00139709-200423010-00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2165/00139709-200423010-00002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) is a short-chain fatty acid that occurs naturally in mammalian brain where it is derived metabolically from gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. GHB was synthesised over 40 years ago and its presence in the brain and a number of aspects of its biological, pharmacological and toxicological properties have been elucidated over the last 20-30 years. However, widespread interest in this compound has arisen only in the past 5-10 years, primarily as a result of the emergence of GHB as a major recreational drug and public health problem in the US. There is considerable evidence that GHB may be a neuromodulator in the brain. GHB has multiple neuronal mechanisms including activation of both the gamma-aminobutyric acid type B (GABA(B)) receptor, and a separate GHB-specific receptor. This complex GHB-GABA(B) receptor interaction is probably responsible for the protean pharmacological, electroencephalographic, behavioural and toxicological effects of GHB, as well as the perturbations of learning and memory associated with supra-physiological concentrations of GHB in the brain that result from the exogenous administration of this drug in the clinical context of GHB abuse, addiction and withdrawal. Investigation of the inborn error of metabolism succinic semialdehyde deficiency (SSADH) and the murine model of this disorder (SSADH knockout mice), in which GHB plays a major role, may help dissect out GHB- and GABA(B) receptor-mediated mechanisms. In particular, the mechanisms that are operative in the molecular pathogenesis of GHB addiction and withdrawal as well as the absence seizures observed in the GHB-treated animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":87031,"journal":{"name":"Toxicological reviews","volume":"23 1","pages":"3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2165/00139709-200423010-00002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40895089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 219
Gamma-butyrolactone and 1,4-butanediol: abused analogues of gamma-hydroxybutyrate. -丁内酯和1,4-丁二醇:-羟基丁酸的滥用类似物。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423010-00003
Robert B Palmer
{"title":"Gamma-butyrolactone and 1,4-butanediol: abused analogues of gamma-hydroxybutyrate.","authors":"Robert B Palmer","doi":"10.2165/00139709-200423010-00003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2165/00139709-200423010-00003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is a GABA-active CNS depressant, commonly used as a drug of abuse. In the early 1990s, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warned against the use of GHB and restricted its sale. This diminished availability of GHB caused a shift toward GHB analogues such as gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BD) as precursors and surrogates. Both GBL and 1,4-BD are metabolically converted to GHB. Furthermore, GBL is commonly used as a starting material for chemical conversion to GHB. As such, the clinical presentation and management of GBL and 1,4-BD intoxication shares a great deal of common ground with that for GHB. This similarity exists not only for acute intoxication but also for withdrawal in those patients with a history of extended high-dose abuse. This review examines the history of GHB analogue abuse as well as the clinical presentation and management of acute intoxication and withdrawal associated with abuse of these compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":87031,"journal":{"name":"Toxicological reviews","volume":"23 1","pages":"21-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2165/00139709-200423010-00003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40895090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 42
Pharmacology, pathophysiology and management of calcium channel blocker and beta-blocker toxicity. 钙通道阻滞剂和β -阻滞剂毒性的药理学、病理生理学和管理。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423040-00003
Christopher R DeWitt, Javier C Waksman
{"title":"Pharmacology, pathophysiology and management of calcium channel blocker and beta-blocker toxicity.","authors":"Christopher R DeWitt,&nbsp;Javier C Waksman","doi":"10.2165/00139709-200423040-00003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2165/00139709-200423040-00003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Calcium channel blockers (CCB) and beta-blockers (BB) account for approximately 40% of cardiovascular drug exposures reported to the American Association of Poison Centers. However, these drugs represent >65% of deaths from cardiovascular medications. Yet, caring for patients poisoned with these medications can be extremely difficult. Severely poisoned patients may have profound bradycardia and hypotension that is refractory to standard medications used for circulatory support.Calcium plays a pivotal role in cardiovascular function. The flow of calcium across cell membranes is necessary for cardiac automaticity, conduction and contraction, as well as maintenance of vascular tone. Through differing mechanisms, CCB and BB interfere with calcium fluxes across cell membranes. CCB directly block calcium flow through L-type calcium channels found in the heart, vasculature and pancreas, whereas BB decrease calcium flow by modifying the channels via second messenger systems. Interruption of calcium fluxes leads to decreased intracellular calcium producing cardiovascular dysfunction that, in the most severe situations, results in cardiovascular collapse.Although, CCB and BB have different mechanisms of action, their physiological and toxic effects are similar. However, differences exist between these drug classes and between drugs in each class. Diltiazem and especially verapamil tend to produce the most hypotension, bradycardia, conduction disturbances and deaths of the CCB. Nifedipine and other dihydropyridines are generally less lethal and tend to produce sinus tachycardia instead of bradycardia with fewer conduction disturbances.BB have a wider array of properties influencing their toxicity compared with CCB. BB possessing membrane stabilising activity are associated with the largest proportion of fatalities from BB overdose. Sotalol overdoses, in addition to bradycardia and hypotension, can cause torsade de pointes. Although BB and CCB poisoning can present in a similar fashion with hypotension and bradycardia, CCB toxicity is often associated with significant hyperglycaemia and acidosis because of complex metabolic derangements related to these medications. Despite differences, treatment of poisoning is nearly identical for BB and CCB, with some additional considerations given to specific BB. Initial management of critically ill patients consists of supporting airway, breathing and circulation. However, maintenance of adequate circulation in poisoned patients often requires a multitude of simultaneous therapies including intravenous fluids, vasopressors, calcium, glucagon, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, high-dose insulin, a relatively new therapy, and mechanical devices. This article provides a detailed review of the pharmacology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and treatment strategies for CCB and BB overdoses.</p>","PeriodicalId":87031,"journal":{"name":"Toxicological reviews","volume":"23 4","pages":"223-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2165/00139709-200423040-00003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25287119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 203
Pharmaceutical drug overdose case reports: from the world literature. 药物过量病例报告:来自世界文献。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423010-00007
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引用次数: 0
Assessment of bronchial responsiveness following exposure to inhaled occupational and environmental agents. 吸入职业和环境物质暴露后支气管反应性的评估。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423020-00002
Graeme P Currie, Jon G Ayres
{"title":"Assessment of bronchial responsiveness following exposure to inhaled occupational and environmental agents.","authors":"Graeme P Currie,&nbsp;Jon G Ayres","doi":"10.2165/00139709-200423020-00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2165/00139709-200423020-00002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inhalation of a range of agents can result in airway inflammation and/or irritation. This may result in occupational asthma or reactive airways dysfunction syndrome. Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome follows a single large exposure to a chemical agent but is now frequently embraced under the wider term of irritant-induced asthma, a term that also includes asthma due to persistent, lower dose irritant exposures. Bronchial hyperresponsiveness is a hallmark of both occupational asthma and reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, although some patients with occupational asthma may occasionally have typical clinical features without increased bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Following removal of the causal agent in occupational asthma, bronchial hyperresponsiveness generally returns towards normal over a 2-year period, although some individuals demonstrate increased bronchial hyperresponsiveness for longer. Measurement of specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness to the primary causal agent in occupational asthma is used diagnostically but not for assessing prognosis. Bronchial hyperresponsiveness to inhaled methacholine can be measured across individual workshifts to assess work-related change. It may also be measured at the end of a work period when exposure has occurred, and compared with values following a period away from work. There have been no direct, systematic comparisons of changes in methacholine responsiveness in the diagnosis of occupational asthma compared with the more frequently used serial peak flow measurements. Patients with reactive airways dysfunction syndrome classically exhibit non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness, which can be readily measured by evaluating responses to inhaled methacholine. Bronchial hyperresponsiveness in reactive airways dysfunction syndrome can persist for many years after initial exposure and serial changes can be used to assess recovery and subsequent disability over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":87031,"journal":{"name":"Toxicological reviews","volume":"23 2","pages":"75-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2165/00139709-200423020-00002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24844130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Developing an analytical toxicology service: principles and guidance. 发展分析毒理学服务:原则和指南。
Toxicological reviews Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.2165/00139709-200423040-00005
Robert J Flanagan
{"title":"Developing an analytical toxicology service: principles and guidance.","authors":"Robert J Flanagan","doi":"10.2165/00139709-200423040-00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2165/00139709-200423040-00005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many acutely poisoned patients are treated with no laboratory help other than general clinical chemistry and haematology. Emergency toxicological analyses (24-hour availability) that could influence immediate patient management such as iron, lithium and paracetamol (acetaminophen), are relatively few in number and are remarkably similar worldwide. These assays should be provided at hospitals with large accident and emergency departments. More complex, less frequently needed clinical toxicological assays that can often be offered on a less urgent basis are usually provided from regional or national centres because of the need to make best use of resources. Recommendations as to the assays that should be provided locally and at regional centres are available for the UK and US, and are generally applicable. Regional centres normally diversify into specialised therapeutic drug monitoring, urine screening for drugs of abuse, metals analysis and sometimes forensic work in order to widen the repertoire of tests available and to increase funding. Whatever the type and quantity of work undertaken and the instrumentation used, guidelines are now available delineating staff training, method validation, assay operation, quality control/quality assurance, and indeed virtually all other aspects of laboratory operation. These considerations notwithstanding, clinical interpretation of analytical results remains a difficult area and is the responsibility of the reporting laboratory, at least in the first instance.</p>","PeriodicalId":87031,"journal":{"name":"Toxicological reviews","volume":"23 4","pages":"251-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2165/00139709-200423040-00005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25114528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
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