Class#3 - Toxicology Flashcards
Junk food contains
Dioxins
Bread
Acrylamide
Chlorinated water
trihalomethane
Polyester bottled water
Antimony
Nail polish
Dibutyl Phtalate
POlyeruthane pillows
Isocyanates
Rubber
Nitrosamines
ADL determined by
1/100th of NOAEL
Discovered curare caused musc. relaxation
Sir Charles Waterton
Discovered curare blocks nerve impulse from CNS
Claude Bernard
1st to use curare in surgery
Dr. Harold Griffith in 1942 in Mtl
Sulfanilamide use and problem, b/c of who? Led to?
ATB for gonorrhea/strep troat, disolved in diethyl Glycol by Watkins. 1938 Food and Cosmetic Act
Sulfanilamide mixture killed?
107, mostly childs and 206 desabilities
Who connected death to diethyl glycol?
Frances Kelsey (McGill)
Hormesis?
Study Rx at very low doses