Protection against nerve agent poisoning by a noncompetitive nicotinic antagonist

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-111

  Turner, S R ^a,c   Chad, J E ^c   Price, M ^a   Timperley, C M ^b   Bird, M ^b   Green, A C ^a   Tattersall, J E H ^a  

^a Biomedical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b Detection Department   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticholinesterase; Ion channel block; Nicotinic antagonist; Organophosphate

Indexed keywords

1,1' (PROPANE 1,3 DIYL)BIS(4 TERT BUTYLPYRIDINIUM); CALCIUM ION; ION CHANNEL; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PHYSOSTIGMINE; SCOPOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTOXICATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DIAPHRAGM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; POISONING; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; SARIN; SOMAN;

CAVIA;

EID: 80051805629     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.05.1035     Document Type: Article

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