Verification of exposure to sulfur mustard in two casualties of the Iran-Iraq conflict

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 249-251

  Benschop, Hendrik P ^a   Van Der Schans, Govert P ^a   Noort, Daan ^a   Fidder, Alex ^a   Mars Groenendijk, Roos H ^a   De Jong, Leo P A ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IRAN; IRAQ; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SKIN INJURY; VICTIM; WAR;

IRANIA;

EID: 0030814750     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/21.4.249     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Report of the Specialists Appointed by the Secretary-General to Investigate Allegations by the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning the Use of Chemical Weapons. UN Document S/16, 433 of 26 March 1984.
2. E. Croddy. Urban terrorism - chemical warfare in Japan. Jane's Intelligence Review 7: 520 (1995).
3. D. Noble. Back in the storm. Anal. Chem. 66: 805-808A (1994).
4. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. Opened for Signature, Paris, France, January 13, 1993.
5. G.P. van der Schans, A.G. Scheffer, R.H. Mars-Groenendijk, A. Fidder, H.P. Benschop, and R.A. Baan. Immunochemical detection of adducts of sulfur mustard to DNA of calf thymus and human white blood cells. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 7: 408-13 (1994).
6. A. Fidder, G.W.H. Moes, A.G. Scheffer, G.P. van der Schans, R.A. Baan, L.P.A. de Jong, and H.P. Benschop. Synthesis, characterization and quantification of the major adducts formed between sulfur mustard and DNA of calf thymus and human blood. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 7: 199-204 (1994).
7. M. Törnqvist, J. Mowrer, S. Jensen, and L. Ehrenberg. Monitoring of environmental cancer initiators through hemoglobin adducts by a modified Edman degradation method. Anal. Biochem. 154: 255-66 (1986).
8. A. Fidder, D. Noort, A.L. de Jong, H.C. Trap, L.P.A. de Jong, and H.P. Benschop. Monitoring of in vitro and in vivo exposure to sulfur mustard by GC/MS determination of the N-terminal valine adduct in hemoglobin after a modified Edman degradation. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 9: 788-92 (1996).
9. E. Bailey, A.G.F Brooks, C.T. Dollery, P.B. Farmer, B.J. Passingham, M.A. Sleightholm, and D.W. Yates. Hydroxyethylvaline adduct formation in haemoglobin as a biological monitor of cigarette smoke intake. Arch. Toxicol. 62: 247-53 (1988).