title: [Behavior of serum cholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase activity in acute dimethoate poisoning].
abstract: With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance. For the serum cholinesterase activity and the acetylcholinesterase activity a three-phase course that with statistically proven adaption could be described only by a three-membered e-function could be shown. Till the 3rd day an extreme decrease of activity of 80-85 per cent occurred. Both cholinesterases provide the same information with regard to the consequences of intoxication. They are only quantitatively different from each other.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Pathologische Physiologie, Bereiches Medizin der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deike
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wosnitzka
mesh_terms: D000110:Acetylcholinesterase / Q000097:blood*; D000328:Adult; D002802:Cholinesterases / Q000097:blood*; D004117:Dimethoate / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide
chemical_list: D000110:Acetylcholinesterase; D002802:Cholinesterases; D004117:Dimethoate
vernacular_title: Verhalten der Serumcholinesterase- und der Acetylcholinesteraseaktivität bei akuter Dimethoatintoxikation.