This review is shaped in scope by much and various chemical, biological, materials science,
device, and chemical engineering literature. This review is intended to make major …

Yang and co-workers appeared (Figure 1), 2 and 16 years since their accompanying
Accounts article,“Chemical Detoxification of Nerve Agent VX.” 14 Also, organophosphonate …

The number of intoxications with organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) is estimated at some 3
000 000 per year, and the number of deaths and casualties some 300 000 per year. OPs act …

The wide-spread use of organophosphorus compounds (OP) as pesticides and the
availability of highly toxic OP-type chemical warfare agents (nerve agents) underlines the …

Chemical warfare agents constitute one of the greatest threats in the modern world. Among
them, the neurotoxic agents are of special interest due to their high lethality and danger …

Amino acid sequence alignments of cholinesterases revealed that 6 of 14 aromatic amino
acid residues lining the active center gorge of acetylcholinesterase are replaced by aliphatic …

Poisoning by organophosphorus compounds (OP) still is a major therapeutic problem.
Intentional OP pesticide poisoning results in up to 300.000 deaths each year and highly …

The first edition of this book, Chemical Warfare Agents: Toxicity at Low Levels, was
published just prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Reflecting a greater …

Irreversible inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) by organophosphates leads to many
failures in living organism and ultimately in death. Organophosphorus compounds …

Engineered variants of Drosophila melanogaster acetylcholinesterase (AChE) were used as
biological receptors of AChE-multisensors for the simultaneous detection and discrimination …