Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• SOMERS, G. F
• WEST, G. B

Titel

Effects of Administration of Trinitrotoluene

Ist Teil von

• Nature (London), 1944-09, Vol.154 (3905), p.303-304

Erscheinungsjahr

1944

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• SEVERAL workers have shown that the administration of aromatic nitro- and amino-bodies to the human being results in cyanosis and porphyrinuria, indicating a disturbance of pigment metabolism. Trinitrotoluene (T.N.T.), for example, may damage the liver and cause anæmia, jaundice and porphyrinuria, and serious effects on the health of munition workers can result. A short while ago, we were investigating the action of T.N.T. upon the hæmopoietic system in healthy rats and, as its metabolism in the body has now been studied extensively1, we think it is of interest to record some of our results here.