NBC Risks Current Capabilities and Future Perspectives for Protection

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Health Risks....Pages 1-18
Intervention in a Chemical, Biological or Nuclear Disaster. A Romanian Point of View....Pages 19-37
Are the Civilians Prepared for Chemical and/or Biological Warfare? The Need of a Cooperative Effort for a Simple Guideline....Pages 39-42
Defense Against Biological Terrorism....Pages 43-59
NBC Medical Planning System (NBCMedPlanS)....Pages 61-68
Planning of Medical Support for a Threatened or Actual Biological Environment. Principles, Policies and Procedures....Pages 69-93
Finite Interactions Theory — A Biophysical Approach to Xenobiotic — Membrane Interface Interactions....Pages 95-107
A Theoretical Study of the Interactions of Acetylcholinesterase, Irreversible Inhibitors, and Their Antidotes....Pages 109-125
Electrochemical Properties of Platelets: Clinical and Pharmacological Applications....Pages 127-154
Features of Apoptotic Cell Death in SCL II Cells after Exposure to 2,2-Dichlorodiethylsulfide....Pages 155-159
A New View on the Mechanism of Action of Reversible Cholinesterase Inhibitors as Drugs for Prophylaxis....Pages 161-163
Cholinesterases as Bioscavengers for Protection Against Organophosphate Chemical Warfare Agents....Pages 165-175
Selectivity and Protective Activity of Muscarinic Receptor’s Antagonists in Organophosphates Poisoning....Pages 177-180
Reactivators, from Classic to a New Generation....Pages 181-187
Convulsions in Organophosphate Intoxications: Their Mechanism and Treatment....Pages 189-195
Treatment of Organophosphate Nerve Agents, Current Therapy and Future Prospectives....Pages 197-218
Reactivation of Organophosphorus — Inhibited Human Erythrocyte-Acetylcholinesterase by Oximes in vitro....Pages 219-227
Cholinesterase Status in Organophosphate Poisoned Patients....Pages 229-241
Testing the Antidotal Efficiency in the Treatment of Aflatoxin Poisoning....Pages 243-249
Zeolites as (Potential) Decorporating Agents....Pages 251-259
New Concepts of Prophylaxis and Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents....Pages 261-263
Sorption-Mechanical Principle in Skin Decontamination....Pages 265-269
Reduction of the Skin Permeation of Xenobiotics Using Chemical Penetration Retarders....Pages 271-277
Effects of Protective Clothing on the Skin Penetration of Xenobiotics....Pages 279-292
Powders, Ointments and Solutions as First Aid, Nonspecific Antidotes for Organophosphorous Compounds at Skin Level....Pages 293-302
Protective Properties of Standard Combat Clothing Against Skin Penetration of Supertoxic Lethal Chemical Warfare Agents....Pages 303-310
Studies Concerning some Effects of Drugs, Colloid Vectors for Drugs and Decorporators on Blood Global Physico-Chemical Parameters....Pages 311-330
Transdermal Systems with Poly-2-Hydroxyethylmeth-Acrylates and new Biological Models for their Study....Pages 331-348
New Pharmaceutical Forms for Skin Protection....Pages 349-363
New Systems of Polyacrylate Copolymers for Controlled Delivery of Drugs....Pages 365-387
Researches on the Embedding of Decorporators in Microemulsions....Pages 389-400
Controlled Release Microspheres Prepared by using an Emulsion Solvent-Diffusion Technique as a Tool in Design of new Antidotes....Pages 401-410
Micro and Nanoparticles as Drug Carriers....Pages 411-439
A Structure — Property Relationship and Quantitative Approach to the Development of Universal Transdermal Drug Delivery System....Pages 441-458
The Dependence Between Physico-Chemical and Allergenic Properties of Xenobiotics....Pages 459-465
Some Physical Chemical Aspects of Albumin — Alkali Halide Interaction....Pages 467-477
Considerations in Investigations of Military Installation Decommissioning: Determining how Clean is Clean....Pages 479-487
The Comparative Danger of Chemical Weapons and Organophosphorus Pesticides for Aquatic Ecosystem Health....Pages 489-492
Direct Methods in the Evaluation of the Internal Contamination with Radionuclides....Pages 493-511
Retrospective Detection of Exposure to Organophosphates: Analyses in Blood of Human Beings and Rhesus Monkeys....Pages 513-521
Radiochemical Analysis of Environmental Samples in the Era of Disarmament....Pages 523-529
Back Matter....Pages 531-543