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cyanide poisoning

Postby kookie on Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:43 pm

a person died of being assissinated. come up with a plausible, possible explaing for his resistence to poisonig by cyanide. would it be helpful to be able to go to his grave and obtain his body for an autopsy? what might you look for?
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Postby victor on Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:10 pm

What I know is that cyanide poison blocks the last electron acceptor in ETC so, the person will die because lack of ATP (Because he will only receive 2/3 of ATP derived from NADH pathway).
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