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Assessing the Clinical Features and Blood Biochemistries of Acute Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents in Iranian Veterans

open access: yesInternational Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, 2021
Background: Nerve Agents (NAs) are a chemical weapons, and their use is prohibited. They were used for numerous-times in the warfare of Iraq against Iran.
khosrow Agin , Babak Mostafazadeh
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Opioid-Tolerant Patients in the Perioperative Surgical Home. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Management of acute postoperative pain is important to decrease perioperative morbidity and improve patient satisfaction. Opioids are associated with potential adverse events that may lead to significant risk.
Baratta, Jaime L.   +3 more
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Phenobarbital as alternate anticonvulsant for organophosphate‐induced benzodiazepine‐refractory status epilepticus and neuronal injury

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, 2020
Objective Organophosphates (OPs) such as diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP) and soman are lethal chemical agents that can produce seizures, refractory status epilepticus (SE), and brain damage.
Doodipala Samba Reddy   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wartime toxicology: the spectre of chemical and radiological warfare in Ukraine

open access: yesToxicology Communications, 2022
The unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation has resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. As fighting intensifies throughout Ukraine, there is an increasing concern that the Russian Federation may consider
P. R. Chai   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Purinergic mechanosensory transduction and visceral pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this review, evidence is presented to support the hypothesis that mechanosensory transduction occurs in tubes and sacs and can initiate visceral pain.
Burnstock, G
core   +3 more sources

From energy-rich phosphate compounds to warfare agents: A review on the chemistry of organic phosphate compounds

open access: yesOrbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry, 2008
The chemistry of the phosphorus-oxygen bond is widely used in biological systems in many processes, such as energy transduction and the storage, transmission and expression of genetic information, which are essential to living beings in relation to a ...
Luciano Albino Giusti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Selective and Sensitive Chromogenic and Fluorogenic Detection of a Sulfur Mustard Simulant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A simple and highly selective chromogenic and fluorogenic detection of sulfur mustard (SM) simulants is reported. Dithiol 1, in the presence and absence of a mustard simulant behaves differently toward a squaraine dye (SQ), and thus provides a visual and
Anslyn, Eric V., Kumar, Vinod
core   +1 more source

Management of Chemical Terrorism and Chemical Disasters

open access: yesInternational Journal of Disaster Management, 2021
Though the possibility of terrorist groups obtaining chemical weapons and inflicting mass destruction is relatively low, the relevance of chemical agents remains high since the use of such chemical agents in causing potentially dangerous consequences ...
Kannan Gajendran Balachandar
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Sensing of Nerve Agents

open access: yesChemPlusChem
AbstractThe recent international scenario highlights the importance to protect human health and environmental quality from toxic compounds. In this context, organophosphorous (OP) Nerve Agents (NAs) have received particular attention, due to their use in terrorist attacks.
Puglisi, Roberta   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Imidazole aldoximes effective in assisting butyrylcholinesterase catalysis of organophosphate detoxification. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Intoxication by organophosphate (OP) nerve agents and pesticides should be addressed by efficient, quickly deployable countermeasures such as antidotes reactivating acetylcholinesterase or scavenging the parent OP.
Amitai, Gabriel   +5 more
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