A serious limitation to the diagnosis of mild organophosphate poisoning and to the preventive screening of organophosphate-exposed workers has been the large interindividual variability in erythrocyte ...

Every year, many thousands of people die as a result of poisoning by pesticides; one of the commonest types of pesticides involved are the organophosphates. In a research paper published today in PLoS ...

SINCE the introduction of the organophosphate malathion (the o-odimethyl dithiophosphate of diethylmercaptosuccinate) to the insecticide market in 1954, it has become widely used for agricultural and ...

A University of Sharjah scientist has devised the formulation and manufacturing techniques to cure poisoning by pesticides and chemical weapons. Intended to initiate treatment until patients are ...