Sarin

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

When US forces destroyed a chemical munitions dump in Khamisiyah, Iraq in March 1991, the soldiers concerned did not realize what they were getting into. Only much later it was revealed they could have been exposed to the deadly sarin gas, released during the demolition. Sarin is a chemica...

A new computer modeling program can help hospitals prepare for the worst

...g and Simulation," is based on the authors' test of the NYU computerized disaster simulation framework known as "Plan C" with a hypothetical malicious sarin release in several Manhattan locations. With the input of city demographic information, hospital resource and public transit data, the results showed ...

Gulf War Syndrome May Stem From Chemical Exposure

...n function problems in veterans exposed to certain toxic chemicals, such as sarin gas, during the war. "Before this study, we didn't know exactly what par...reas of the brain that would have been damaged if the illness was caused by sarin or pesticides, and the results were positive." The study included 21 chr...

Scott Miller and Company Premieres "A CALL TO ARMS 2009 EDITION" at the Camelot Theaters in Palm Springs

... In October of 2008, one study proposed that Gulf War Syndrome be limited to neuropathology symptoms that could be explained by exposure to VX and sarin nerve gas weapons and anti-nerve-gas drugs given to veterans, who were exposed in 1991 to the down-wind fallout from the destruction of Iraq's weapons...

Gulf War Illness Strongly Linked to Chemical Exposure

...borne disease, and 100,000 personnel may have been exposed to low levels of sarin nerve agent after the demolition of the Khamisiyah munitions depot in Iraq....EIs, said the study authors, as well as symptoms suffered by victims of the sarin terrorist attacks in Japan. Exposure to AChEIs could also be linked to t...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...emicals. The physical and mental symptoms experienced by the gulf veterans could be due to exposure to bio-warfare agents such as toxic pesticides and sarin gas. Comparison of the brain scans showed that the size of the entire cortex, or grey matter, was on average 5% smaller in those with the wors...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...emicals. The physical and mental symptoms experienced by the gulf veterans could be due to exposure to bio-warfare agents such as toxic pesticides and sarin gas. Comparison of the brain scans showed that the size of the entire cortex, or grey matter, was on average 5% smaller in those with the worst ...

Alzheimer's Drug can be Used to Treat Nerve Agent and Pesticide Poisoning

...phic results in wars and terrorist attacks, such as the subway attacks with sarin in Japan in the late 1990s," says Edson X. Albuquerque, M.D., Ph.D., profes...mals treated with galantamine and later exposed to lethal doses of soman or sarin survived and showed no signs of the most common symptoms of exposure to ner...

Genetic Variations In Detoxifying Genes Lead To Lou Gehrig's diseases

...ossible twofold increased risk for developing ALS in veterans of the Gulf War, indicating a war-related environmental exposure to organophosphates and sarin in genetically susceptible individuals as a possible cause. PON gene cluster variants have previously been associated with other neurodegenerative and...

Sarin in Medical Technology

PharmAthene Initiates Phase I Clinical Trial of Nerve Agent Bioscavenger Protexia(R)

...or civilian victims of nerve agent attacks. Nerve agents belong to a class of compounds known as organophosphate (OP) agents. OP nerve agents, such as sarin gas, soman, tabun or VX, enter the blood stream via inhalation or absorption through the skin. The nerve agents travel in the circulatory system to th...

PharmAthene Presents Data for Protexia(R) and Valortim(R) at 2008 BARDA Industry Conference / PHEMCE Stakeholders Workshop

...or civilian victims of nerve agent attacks. Nerve agents belong to a class of compounds known as organophosphate (OP) agents. OP nerve agents, such as sarin gas, soman, tabun or VX, enter the blood stream via inhalation or absorption through the skin. The nerve agents travel in the circulatory system to th...

Sarin in Medical Dictionary

Albinism

...rders, results ... Alfredo Sáenz 1942— Biography, Mary F. Sammons 1946— Biography, Steve Sanger 1946— Biography, Ron Sargent 1955— Biography, Arun sarin 1954— Biography, Mikio Sasaki ... Ocular albinism is characterized by severely impaired sharpness of vision ... The most common form of ocula...

Sarin in Biological News

Variations in detoxifying genes linked to Lou Gehrig's disease

...ossible twofold increased risk for developing ALS in veterans of the Gulf War, indicating a war-related environmental exposure to organophosphates and sarin in genetically susceptible individuals as a possible cause. PON gene cluster variants have previously been associated with other neurodegenerative and...

Sarin in Biological Technology

PharmAthene Completes Pharmacokinetic Studies of Protexia(R); Program on Target for IND Filing in 2008

...seeking novel second generation prophylactic products for use in humans to prevent and treat poisoning from organophosphorus (OP) nerve agents such as sarin gas, soman, tabun and VX. About Protexia(R): PEGylated Recombinant Human Butyrylcholinesterase (rBChE) Protexia(R) is a form of recombinant human ...

Credit-card-sized platform for volatile compound analysis CAREER project goal

... groundwater contaminants. Homeland security and military personnel can rely on the technique to test air samples for chemical warfare agents, such as sarin and mustard gases. The technique also is widely used in food processing, the petrochemical industry, and a number of other fields. Currently, gas c...