Chemical warfare toxicology. Volume 1, Fundamental aspects /

Despite ongoing efforts to prohibit the production, storage and use of chemical warfare agents recent world events highlight the enduring threat to the population from these agents. Research efforts in various countries have resulted in novel insights into chemical warfare toxicology that has enable...

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Other Authors Worek, Franz (Editor), Jenner, John (Of Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Great Britain)) (Editor), Thiermann, Horst (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016.
SeriesIssues in toxicology ; no. 26.
Subjects
Chemical weapons > Health aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781782622413
1782622411
9781523104765
1523104767
1849739692
9781849739696
ISSN1757-7179 ;
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 312 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Development, historical use and properties of chemical warfare agents / Robin Black
  • 2. Toxicology of vesicants / John Jenner
  • 3. Toxicology of organophosphorus nerve agents / Helen Rice
  • 4. Toxicology and treatment of phosgene induced lung injury / Bronwen Jugg
  • 5. Human exposures to sulfur mustard / John Jenner
  • 6. Long-term effects of the chemical warfare agent sulfur mustard / Kai Kehe, Dirk Steinritz, Frank Balszuweit & Horst Thiermann
  • 7. Toxicokinetics of sulfur mustard / Jan P. Langenberg, Marcel J. van der Schans & Daan Noort
  • 8. Modeling organophosphorus chemical warfare nerve agents: a physiologically based pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PBPK-PD) model of VX / Tammie R. Covington, Lucille A. Lumley, Christopher D. Ruark, Edward D. Clarkson, Christopher E. Whalley & Jeffery M. Gearhart
  • 9. Allometric modeling of mammalian cyanogen chloride inhalation lethality / Douglas R. Sommerville.

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