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Mar 18th, 2023 - The DoD Cholinesterase Monitoring Program and Cholinesterase Reference Laboratory have safeguarded U.S. government employees in chemical defense for over five decades. Considering Russia's potential deployment of chemical warfare nerve agents in U...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Nerve agents have been used recently in the Syrian civil war. Collecting relevant samples for retrospective identification of an attack is often problematic. The article deals with the possibility of using contaminated gloves as an analytical samp...

Feb 15th, 2023 - We herein present for the first time a micro liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization high-resolution tandem-mass spectrometry (μLC-ESI MS/HR MS) procedure to detect phosphonylated tyrosine (Tyr) and lysine (Lys) residues obtained from human ...

Jan 14th, 2023 - Protection from the toxicity of nerve agents is achieved by pretreatment with human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE). Current methods for purifying large quantities of BChE from frozen Cohn fraction IV-4 produce 99% pure enzyme, but the yield is low (...

Jan 13th, 2023 - Physostigmine (Phs) is a reversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) that penetrates the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and could be used to protect the central nervous system (CNS) against the effects of nerve agents. For prophylactic effectiv...

Aug 31st, 2019 - The release of chemical agents can cause loss of life and result in major incidents. Chemical agent-related major incidents require a modified response by emergency services due to the chemicals' transmissibility, lethality, latency and persistenc...

May 5th, 2021 - The purpose of this placebo-controlled study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of a single dosage of human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBChE) in healthy adults. HuBChE, which occurs naturally in human plasma, is being evalua...

May 5th, 2021 - The purpose of this placebo-controlled study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of a single dose regimen of human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBChE) in healthy adults at 3 ascending dosage levels administered IV. HuBChE, whic...

Jan 22nd, 2020 - Rationale: Impaired cognition is one of the 3 major symptom areas of GWVI. Mitochondrial dysfunction is reported in Gulf War Illness (GWI) veterans, associated with neurotoxicant exposures during deployment - e.g., organophosphate pesticides (OP);...

Mar 26th, 2020 - ZURICH (Reuters) - Spiez Lab, a government-run institute in the Swiss mountains, was set up to protect the nation from nuclear, biological and chemical threats. "For a world without weapons of mass destruction," runs its slogan. It is now fighting...

Jan 29th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children are disproportionately affected by chemical and biological events, so they must be included in the planning and response when terrorism strikes, according to a policy statement from the American Academy of Pedi...

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Nov 29th, 2013 - WASHINGTON -- The FDA cautioned emergency medical staff to retain nearly and recently expired auto-injectors by Meridian Medical Technologies and to use them in emergencies if no other product is available. The action arises because of a supply ch...

Mar 10th, 2008 - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Exposure to pesticides, nerve agents and other chemicals may explain the chronic, multi-symptom health problems experienced by up to one-third of Gulf War veterans, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said an analysis of a ho...