Chemical Threats

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 637-647

  Fry, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ATROPINE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; COBALT EDETATE; CYANIDE; DIAZEPAM; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; LYSERGIDE; MUSTARD GAS; PHOSGENE; PRALIDOXIME CHLORIDE; SARIN; SODIUM NITRITE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; SOMAN; TABUN; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CYANIDE POISONING; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; EXPOSURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TERRORISM; WOUND CARE;

CHEMICAL TERRORISM; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS;

EID: 33744999238     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.02.005     Document Type: Review

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