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Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 2017 Chemical warfare agents (CWAs) are unarguably one of the most feared toxic substances produced by mankind. Their inception in conventional warfare can be traced as far back as the Middle Ages but their full breakthrough as central players in bellic ...
Valdez Carlos A. +3 more
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Investigating possibilities and recent trends for the development of novel decontamination technologies [PDF]
Scientific Technical ReviewDespite international prohibition of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), defined in Chemical Weapons Convention, recent events during military conflict in Syria and isolated events in Salisbury (UK) and Kuala Lumpur (Malesya) airport prove that these agents ...
Vitorović-Todorović Maja D. +1 more
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BiomoleculesNew furan, thiophene, and triazole oximes were synthesized through several-step reaction paths to investigate their potential for the development of central nervous systems (CNS)-active and cholinesterase-targeted therapeutics in organophosphorus ...
Milena Mlakić +4 more
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, 2023 Nerve agents, are organic chemicals that interrupt the cholinergic transmission to organs by irreversible inhibition of enzyme acetylcholinesterase.(1) This leads to the accumulation of neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh), which can ultimately lead to fatality.
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A Review Article on Nerve Agents
Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2002 The incidence of Tokyo subway attack by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in 1995 had raised the concern of the use of nerve agent as a weapon in terrorist attack. The recent event in World Trade Centre in New York city had further brought our attention to the possibility of terrorist attacks using these agents.
Syh Tang, Jts Chan
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Orbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry, 2009 A química da ligação fósforo-oxigênio é utilizada largamente em sistemas biológicos em diversos processos, tais como a transdução de energia e o armazenamento, transmissão e expressão da informação genética, que são cruciais para que os seres vivos sejam
Luciano Albino Giusti +1 more
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Cyclosarin-An Organophosphate Nerve Agent
Defence Science Journal, 2005 Organophosphorus compounds ascribed to as nerve agents (sarin, soman, tabun, cyclosarin) are highly toxic, and are considered to be the most dangerous chemical compounds. All apparently share a common mechanism of cholinesterase inhibition and can cause similar svmotoms. The . .
Gabriela Krejčová +2 more
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Two Step Synthesis of a Non-symmetric Acetylcholinesterase Reactivator
Molecules, 2007 The newly developed and very promising acetylcholinesterase reactivator (E)-1- (2-hydroxyiminomethylpyridinium)-4-(4-hydroxyiminomethylpyridinium)-but-2-ene dibromide was prepared using two different pathways via a two-step synthesis involving the ...
Vit Koleckar +5 more
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Concomitant changes in formaldehyde‐induced fluorescence of dopamine interneurones and in slow inhibitory post‐synaptic potentials of the rabbit superior cervical ganglion, induced by stimulation of the preganglionic nerve or by a muscarinic agent [PDF]
, 1974 Benjamin Libet, Ch. Owman
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Abolition of the nerve‐induced responses of the isolated vas deferens of the young rat by agents blocking α‐adrenoceptors [PDF]
, 1972 Göran Swedin
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