The potency of the Czech original pharmacological pretreatment consisting of pyridostigmine, benactyzine and trihexyphenidyle, designated PANPAL, to increase the resistance of rats and mice against tabun or soman and to increase the therapeutic efficacy of standard antidotal treatment of tabun or soman-poisoned experimental animals was studied and compared with commonly used pyridostigmine alon...

Human serum paraoxonase 1 (HuPON1; EC 3.1.8.1) is a calcium-dependent six-fold beta-propeller enzyme that has been shown to hydrolyze an array of substrates, including organophosphorus (OP) chemical warfare nerve agents. Although recent efforts utilizing site-directed mutagenesis have demonstrated specific residues (such as Phe222 and His115) to be important in determining the specificity of OP...

at the present study, different properties of sarin with the formula [(ch3)2cho]ch3pof was studiedin gas phase. geometrical optimizations of sarin, single point calculation, nmr and electricalparameters were carried out in gas phase with the hartee -fock method coupled to 6-31g* basis setsfor all atoms. the results obtained from a comparison between tables and charts came up fordiscussion and a...

The enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is an important part of cholinergic nervous system, where it stops neurotransmission by hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. It is sensitive to inhibition by organophosphate and carbamate insecticides, some Alzheimer disease drugs, secondary metabolites such as aflatoxins and nerve agents used in chemical warfare. When immobilized on a sensor ...