Determination of miosis threshold from whole-body vapor exposure to sarin in African green monkeys

Toxicology

Volumn 244, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 123-132

  Genovese, Raymond F ^a   Benton, Bernard J ^b   Oubre, John L ^a   Fleming, Patrick J ^a   Jakubowski, E Michael ^b   Mioduszewski, Robert J ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African green; Cognition; GB; Miosis; Primate; Sarin; SPR

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE; SARIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; MIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GASES; MEMORY; MIOSIS; PUPIL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SARIN; SKIN;

CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; PRIMATES;

EID: 38749107754     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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