TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Carbon monoxide poisoning JO - Toxicology reports A1 - Kinoshita, Hiroshi A1 - Türkan, Hülya A1 - Vucinić, Slavica A1 - Naqvi, Shahab A1 - Bedair, Rafik A1 - Rezaee, Ramin A1 - Tsatsakis, Aristides SP - 169 EP - 173 VL - 7 IS - N2 - Carbon monoxide (CO) is the leading cause of poisoning deaths in many countries, including Japan. Annually, CO poisoning claims about 2000-5000 lives in Japan, which is over half of the total number of poisoning deaths. This paper discusses the physicochemical properties of CO and the toxicological evaluation of CO poisoning.

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LA - en SN - 2214-7500 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxrep.2020.01.005 ID - ref1 ER -