(1) Aluminium phosphide (ALP) a major suicidal agent in the developing countries is freely available as grain fumigant.
(2) Zinc phosphide manifests its immediate toxicity through production of phosphine gas.
(3) Aluminum phosphide is widely used as a grain preservative.
(4) Silver nitrate impregnated paper test was performed with the gastric fluid and in breath in 50 patients of aluminium phosphide poisoning.
(5) Plasma renin activity (PRA) was estimated in 30 patients with aluminium phosphide (AIP) poisoning (study group) admitted in shock.
(6) A major change in the compositional depth profiles was induced by immersion: thick and uniform titanium phosphide layers of constant composition were observed on the Ti-based metal substrates.
(7) These workers were used to placing aluminum phosphide tablets on the stacks of grains and covering it with a gas-proof plastic cover.
(8) Two cases with severe hypoglycaemia following zinc phosphide poisoning are reported.
(9) Aluminium phosphide, due to its low cost, easy availability and highly toxic nature, is emerging as a common self-poisoning agent in adults.
(10) Delayed effects are secondary to the absorption of phosphide, affecting primarily the liver, heart and kidneys.
(11) Of 25 cases of aluminum phosphide poisoning the authors observed over a period of two years, 16 cases (64%) had evidence of cardiac dysfunction.
(12) Significant hypomagnesemia and hypomagnocytia were observed in patients of aluminium phosphide (AIP) poisoning having evidence of acute cardiotoxicity while magnesium levels were normal in patients of AIP poisoning without shock or cardiotoxicity as well as in controls.
(13) In general, however, gophacide proved to be as effective as zinc phosphide for the control of mice.
(14) Phosphine is measured as the sum of physically bound intact phosphine and that derived from residual aluminum phosphide.
(15) Rattus norvegicus infestations on six farmsteads were poisoned with 0.5% 5-p-chlorophenyl silatrane and those on another six with 2.5% zinc phosphide.
(16) Ninety patients with aluminum phosphide poisoning have been studied over a period of 3 years.
(17) Haemodynamic measurements were made on 25 patients with aluminium phosphide poisoning.
(18) The effect of aluminium phosphide (AlP) which is a systemic poison on the adrenal cortex was studied in 30 patients of AlP poisoning.
(19) Mixed heart rate response has been observed in shock due to aluminium phosphide poisoning.
(20) As examples, veterinarians have had to manage companion animal poisonings due to anticoagulant, sodium fluoroacetate (compound 1080), thallium, barium carbonate, and zinc phosphide-based rodenticides.
Phosphine
Definition:
(n.) A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of the complexes showed potent cytotoxic activity in vitro and antitumor activity in vivo, with the phosphine-coordinated gold(I) thiosugar complexes demonstrating the greatest in vitro and in vivo activity.
(2) The phosphinic acid isosteres of di-, tetra- and hexapeptides containing a hydrophobic amino acid side chains at the P1-P'1 positions are powerful inhibitors of Human Immunodeficiency Virus protease.
(3) Quantitative analysis of type II pneumocytes showed that newborn rabbits had a distinct cell subpopulation in a region of low-angle light scatter and phosphine-3R fluorescence intensity similar to that previously reported on type II cells from adult rabbits.
(4) Substitution of the phosphinate linkage (PO2-CH2) for the peptide bond also gives potent inhibitors such as napthoyl-GlyP-C-Leu-Trp-NHBzl, the phosphinate analog of naphtholyl-Gly-Leu-Trp-NHBzl, which has a Ki of 10 nM.
(5) The incorporation of phosphine and phosphite ligands is described.
(6) The coordinated gold compound, 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-1-thio-beta-D-glucopyranosato-S-triethyl phosphine gold (auranofin; Ridaura), was evaluated for antitumor activity in a variety of mouse tumor models.
(7) Dynamic studies showed that the combined action of phosphine and hydrofluoric acid damages the Krebs cycle reactions, dehydrogenization of isocitrate and synthesis of citrate in homogenized rat liver.
(8) Replacement of the scissile bond with the phosphinic analogue of Leu10-Val11 (1b) gave the most potent inhibitors, having IC50 = 7.5 x 10(-8) M for H-Pro-His-Pro-Phe-His-(1b)-Ile-His-Lys-OH and IC50 = 1.0 x 10(-7) M for Z-Arg-Arg-Pro-Phe-His-(1b)-Ile-His-NH2.
(9) Concentrations of [carboxyl-14C]procaine in blood of mice were increased threefold for 27 min by exposure to O-4-nitrophenyl diphenylphosphinate 2 hr prior to [carboxyl-14C]procaine injection ip, while there was no effect of O-4-nitrophenyl methyl(phenyl)phosphinate pretreatment.
(10) The yellow chromophore due to phosphine from raw polished rice had 2 absorption maxima, a strong one at 370-380 nm and a weaker one at 400-410 nm.
(11) These cells are distinguishable by the staining of their lamellar bodies with the fluorescent lipophilic dye, phosphine-3R and by their intensity of low-angle light scatter.
(12) The pro-S oxygen atom of the two phosphonate inhibitors and of the phosphinate group of the StaP inhibitor make very short contact distances (approximately 2.4 A) to the carboxyl oxygen atom, O delta 1, of Asp33 on penicillopepsin.
(13) This compound, which contains both carboxylic and phosphinic acid functional groups, is an HMG CoA reductase inhibitor currently under clinical investigation at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute.
(14) The two acidic groups of II are selectively esterified, first by methylation of the carboxylic acid with methanolic hydrochloric acid and then by formation of the hexafluoroisopropyl ester of the phosphinic acid.
(15) The ability of 3-aminopropyl(diethyoxymethyl)phosphinic acid (CGP 35348), 3-aminopropyl (hexyl)phosphinic acid (3-APHPA) and phaclofen to antagonize these responses was assessed.
(16) The hydroxamate Ro 31-4724 inhibits proteoglycan and collagen loss, whereas the phosphinic acid Ro 31-7467 selectively inhibits collagen breakdown in this model.
(17) No interferences from red phosphorus, phosphine, water vapor, or other common gases are significant.
(18) The reactivation and efficacy data, especially for CMPP, support the concept that oxime sensitive phosphinates may be useful as pretreatments against nerve agent intoxication.
(19) A new, single bolus method of in vivo blood pool imaging using a technetium Tc99m phosphine isocyanide complex (DEPIC) which binds to pre-albumin was evaluated in volunteers (n = 4) and patients (n = 20).
(20) As this was an indirect proof of malathion ingestion, it was assumed that phosphine had been ingested as well and that consequently this was the cause of death, because it is much more toxic than malathion and because it was continuously generated from not completely dissolved aluminiumphosphide tablets, while the children were still playing.