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A glue sniffer manifested marked muscular atrophy in the four extremities while sensory functions remained more or less intact. Glue analysis revealed n-hexane, toluene, and ethyl acetate as leading solvents. Rat experiments revealed that metabolism of n-hexane was not modified by co-administered toluene and vice versa, indicating that the atypical symptom in the present case was not due to metabolic modification between n-hexane and toluene.
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This work was supported in part by a research grant from the Fujiwara Memorial Foundation.
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Suzuki, T., Shimbo, S., Nishitani, H. et al. Muscular atrophy due to glue sniffing. Int. Arch. Arbeitsmed 33, 115–123 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00538995
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