Biochemical changes in mouse lung after subcutaneous injection of the sulfur mustard 2-chloroethyl 4-chlorobutyl sulfide

Toxicology

Volumn 199, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 195-206

  Elsayed, Nabil M ^a,b   Omaye, Stanley T ^c  

^a Hurley Consulting Associates   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant therapy; Blistering agents; Chemical terrorism; Chemical warfare agents; Mustard analogs; Mustard gas; Oxidative stress; Sulfur; Vesicants

Indexed keywords

2 CHLOROETHYL 4 CHLOROBUTYL SULFIDE; CATALASE; DNA; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MUSTARD GAS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DEATH; EXPOSURE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CYTOSOL; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MUSTARD GAS; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEINS; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TIME FACTORS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 2442610589     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2004.02.020     Document Type: Article

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