Organophosphate pesticides, which exert their neurotoxicity by inactivating acetylcholinesterase, can trigger a potentially lethal _______ in humans a. Anti-cholinergic crisis b. Cholinergic crisis c.

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Organophosphate pesticides, which exert their neurotoxicity by inactivating acetylcholinesterase, can trigger a potentially lethal _______ in humans

a. Anti-cholinergic crisis
b. Cholinergic crisis
c. Serotonergic crisis
d. Cardiac episode

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b. Cholinergic crisis.

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