Sulfur mustard (SM) is a notorious, bifunctional alkylating vesicant that was first used in
warfare during World War I in 1917 and since then has been deployed in numerous …

Sulfur mustard (SM) is a blister chemical warfare agent with severe cytotoxicity and
genotoxicity. It can extensively alkylate important macromolecules in organisms, such as …

Background Sulfur mustard (SM) is a highly toxic chemical warfare agent that has caused
numerous casualties during wars and conflicts in the past century. Specific antidotes or …

Background: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been, like many parts of
the world, a hotbed for terrorist activities. Terrorist attacks can affect both demand for and …

Nitrogen mustard (NM; mechlorethamine) is a cytotoxic vesicant known to cause acute lung
injury which can progress to chronic disease. Due to the complex nature of NM injury, it has …

Sulfur mustard, a chemical warfare agent known to be a vesicant of skin, readily diffuses in
the blood stream and reaches internal organs. In the present study, we used the analog (2 …

Vesicants, from vesica (Latin for blister), can cause local and systemic toxicity. They include
the chemotherapy drug nitrogen mustard and chemical warfare agents sulfur mustard …

A phase inversion process is used to fabricate composite beads from the metal–organic
framework (MOF) UiO‐66‐NH2 and the elastomeric block copolymer poly (styrene‐block …

This study focuses on the detection of ethyl methyl phosphonic acid (EMPA), a metabolite of
the banned organophosphorus nerve agent VX. We developed an electrochemical sensor …

For the verification of exposure to the banned blister agent sulfur mustard (SM) and the
better understanding of its pathophysiology, protein adducts formed with endogenous …