(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.