Evaluation of a barrier cream against the chemical warfare agent VX using the domestic white pig

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-38

  Chilcott, Robert P ^a   Dalton, Christopher H ^b   Hill, Ira ^c   Davison, Corey M ^c   Blohm, Kendal L ^c   Clarkson, Edward D ^d   Hamilton, Murray G ^e  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Kinchyle Enterprises Inc   (Canada)

^d US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense   (United States)

^e DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; NERVE GAS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMESTIC PIG; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMIDITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTOXICATION; LD 50; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN TOXICITY; STRATUM CORNEUM; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; LETHAL DOSE 50; OINTMENTS; ORGANOTHIOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SKIN ABSORPTION; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 21244506233     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2005.pto_97106.x     Document Type: Article

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