Multiple exposures to sarin vapor result in parasympathetic dysfunction in the eye but not the heart

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 354-361

  Dabisch, Paul A ^a   To, Filip ^b   Kerut, Edmund K ^c   Horsmon, Michael S ^a   Mioduszewski, Robert J ^a  

^a EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Mississippi State University ^*  (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Miosis; Organophosphate; Parasympathetic dysfunction; Sarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ATROPINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; SARIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EYE TOXICITY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PUPIL REFLEX; RAT; TACHYCARDIA;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CHOLINESTERASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EYE; HEART; HEART RATE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIOSIS; MYOCARDIUM; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; SARIN; VOLATILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34547869211     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfm167     Document Type: Article

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