Chemical weapons: Documented use and compounds on the horizon

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 11-18

  Bismuth, Chantal ^a   Borron, Stephen W ^b,c   Baud, Frederic J ^a   Barriot, Patrick ^d  

^a HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Chemical weapons; Conventional weapons; Terrorism; Toxicants; Toxins; Warfare

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CHLORINE; COBALT EDETATE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANIDE; DIAZEPAM; DIMERCAPROL; HERBICIDE; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; IRRITANT AGENT; LEWISITE; MUSTARD GAS; NERVE GAS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OBIDOXIME; OXIME; PHOSGENE; PRALIDOXIME; RICIN; SARIN; SODIUM NITRATE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TABUN; TEAR GAS; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ASSAULT; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG INTOXICATION; DYSESTHESIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; KIDNEY INJURY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TERRORISM; VOMITING; WAR;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CYANIDES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MUSTARD COMPOUNDS; NEUROTOXINS; RICIN;

EID: 1842767263     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2003.12.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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