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Nerve agent

Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs. The disruption is caused by the blocking of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. Nerve agents are irreversible acetylcholinesterase…

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Nerve agent

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related to V-series · 27
Nerve agent → After, All, Development, England, Ghosh, ICI, Imperial Chemical Industries, In, Like Schrader, Plant Protection Laboratories, Porton Down, Ranajit Ghosh, Russian V-gas, The, The V-series, US, V-agents, V-series, VE, Venomous
related to External links · 19
Nerve agent → America's Fifteen-year Struggle, Archived, ATSDR Case Studies, August, Chemical ReviewHistory Note, Chemical Warfare Nerve Agents, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Department, Environmental Medicine, Health, Human ServicesNervegas, Including Pesticides, Modern Chemical Weapons Army, NewsletterAChE, Obtain German Chemical Weapons, Proteopedia, Retaliation Against Japan CBIAC, The CWS Effort, Wayback Machine
has effect · 18
Nerve agent → ACh, All, Applying, As, Because, Blisters, Death, If, In, Initial, It, Matsumoto, Nerve, Sarin, Soon, This, Tokyo, Victims
related to Carbamates · 17
Nerve agent → Both, Carbamate-based, Cold War, Compounds, Contrary, CWC, EA-1464, EA-3990, EA-4056, Fourth Generation Novichok, Nerve Agents, Schedule, Soviet Union, The, The Family Practice Notebook, United States, VX
related to G-series · 17
Nerve agent → All, Cyclosarin, GA, GB, GD, German, GF, IG Farben, Sarin, Soman, Tabun, The, The G-series, The Holocaust, This, US, World War II
related to Discovery · 15
Nerve agent → December, G-series, Gerhard Schrader, Germany, IG Farben, In, In January, It, Leverkusen, Schrader, Since, Tabun, This, While, Within
related to Post–World War II · 15
Nerve agent → Aum Shinrikyo, Halabja, Iran, Iranian, Iraq War, Iraq's, Iraqi, Japanese, Kurdish, Kurds, On, Operatives, Sarin, Since World War II, Tokyo
related to Countermeasures · 14
Nerve agent → Atropine, Butyrylcholinesterase, Defense, Department, Evidence, Gulf War, It, Mark, NAAK, Pralidoxime, Pyridostigmine, Soman, US, While
has treatment · 9
Nerve agent → Anticholinergics, ATNAA, Atropine, It, Military, Some, Standard, The, While
related to Insecticides · 8
Nerve agent → At, Organophosphate, Paraoxon, Project Coast, Several, Some, South African, The

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demetoninstance ofSome insecticides0.80text
dimefoxinstance ofSome insecticides0.80text
paraoxon are sufficiently toxic to humans that they have been withdrawn from agricultural useinstance ofSome insecticides0.80text
and were at one stage investigated for potential military applicationsinstance ofSome insecticides0.80text
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Nerve agenthas effectAll0.60section

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