Chemical warfare agents

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Chemical warfare agents

Original language description

Chemical warfare agents are compounds of different chemical structures. Simplemolecules such as chlorine as well as complex structures such as ricin belong to this group. Nerve agents, vesicants, incapacitating agents, blood agents, lung-damaging agents,riot-control agents and several toxins are among chemical warfare agents. Although the use of these compounds is strictly prohibited, the possible misuse by terrorist groups is a reality nowadays. Owing to this fact, knowledge of the basic properties ofthese substances is of a high importance. This chapter briefly introduce the separate groups of chemical warfare agents together with their members and the potential therapy that should be applied in case someone is intoxicated by these agents.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

FP - Other medical fields

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/OVUOFVZ200803" target="_blank" >OVUOFVZ200803: Development of novel decontaminants and disinfectants of skin based on micellar compounds</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2010

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology: Volume 2: Clinical Toxicology

ISBN

978-3-7643-8337-4

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

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Number of pages of the book

619

Publisher name

Birkhäuser

Place of publication

Basel

UT code for WoS chapter

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