Old Chapter - Toxicology review (cuz no one else will)
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- alpha decay
- He- 2 protons and 2 nuetrons
- half-life of c-14
- 5730 years
- wavelenght spectrum thingy
- gamma-xray-ultraviolet-visible-infrared-microwaves-tv waves-radio
- ionizes water in cells
- x-rays
- fought against Philip of Macedonia-committed suicide with poison
- Demosthenes
-
Earliest egyptian medical record
when? -
Ebers papyrus
1550 bc - sumerians wrote on these
- cuneiform tablets
- LSD stands for
- lysergic acid diethylmide
- ignis sacer means
- holy fire
- two types of ergotisms
-
convulsive
gangrenous - dude who 'saved' them all from ergotism
- Hugh the great
- ergotism caused this religious phenomenon in 1741
- Great Awakening
- Peter the Great was from...
- Russia
- Peter the Great was aiming for the city of
- Constantinople (istanbul)
- Peter the Great was stopped by
- ergotism
- 'real' father of toxicology
- Bonaventura Orfila
- name of ergot used for medicine
- cafergot
- cured morning sickness with one dimer, other caused deformed fetuses
- thalidomide
- 2 very deadly red poisons
- sarin and tabun
- first scientist accepted by military
- Fritz Haber
- used in gas chambers in holocaust
- zyklon-b
- company in charge of many of the tests on Jews and made many new medicines
-
IG Farben industries
- No, Farben and Industies mean the same thing. Just IG Farben.
-lol - mother of environmental movement
- Rachel Carson
- mother of environmental movement wrote...
- Silent Spring
- how many families relocated in Love Canal
- 239
- Love canal now known as
- Black Creek Village
- when and why was Agent Orange used
- Vietnam, used to get rid of forest cuz vietcong were hiding
- Agent orange also caused...
- cancer, birth defects, low fertility, diabetes
- Monsanto makes...
- Roundup
- Causes tetanus
- chlostridium tetani
- means foreign to life
- xenobiotic
- too little causes parkinsons
- dopamine
- cocaine affects this neurotransmitter
- dopamine
- too much dopamine causes
- schizophrenia
- Neurons: cell body aka
- perikaryon
- Schwann cells are a subgroup of this helper cell group...
- glial cells
- space between Schwann cells
- nodes of Ranvier
- receives messages for cell
- dendrites
- synaptic cleft is how wide?
- 50nm
- does condensation
- choline acetyltransferase
- does hydrolysis
- acetylcholine esterase
- Acetylcholine esterase makes a break every...
- 40 microseconds
- seratonin does...
- peaceful feeling in brain
- causes inflammation
- histamine
- physostigmine comes from...
- the calabar bean
- blue poisons do
- competitive binding
- used on poison tip arrows in amazon
- curare
- bungarotoxin comes from
- Krait snakes
- muscle relaxant
- succinylcholine
- botulinus tetani is used in surgery to...
- get rid of wrinkles