A novel approach for medical countermeasures to nerve agent poisoning in the guinea-pig

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-491

  Wetherell, Janet ^a   Price, Matthew ^a   Mumford, Helen ^a  

^a Biomedical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guinea pig; Hyoscine and HI 6; Incapacitation; Nerve agent poisoning; Physostigmine; Survival

Indexed keywords

1 (4 CARBAMOYLPYRIDINIO) 1' (2 HYDROXYIMINOMETHYLPYRIDINIO)DIMETHYL ETHER; ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; ETHYL N,N DIMETHYLPHOSPHORAMIDOCYANIDATE; METHYLPHOSPHONOTHIOIC ACID S (2 DIISOPROPYLAMINOETHYL) O ETHYL ESTER; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PICOLYLMETHYLPHOSPHONOFLUORIDATE; SARIN; SCOPOLAMINE; SOMAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; GUINEA PIG; HYPOTHERMIA; INTOXICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GUINEA PIGS; HYPOTHERMIA; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; POISONING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS;

EID: 33744966368     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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