Organophosphorus (OP) nerve agents represent a class of highly toxic chemical warfare banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention. Nevertheless, in past few years they have been used repeatedly for warfare, assassination and attempted murder. In addition, chemically related OP pesticides were frequently suicide may be deployed terroristic attacks. Therefore, sensitive selective bioanalytical meth...

Psychological trauma may result in depression. Veterans are particularly prone to development of depression. 100 male veterans (39 injured by chemical and 61 by non-chemical warfare) with 30% to 70% of physical disability were compared with 100 age- and sex-matched individuals selected from general population serving as comparison group. The diagnosis of depression was made according to the DSM...

Chemical warfare agents are the most brutal weapons among the weapons of mass destruction. Sulfur mustard (SM) is a potent toxic alkylating agent known as “the King of the Battle Gases”. SM has been the most widely used chemical weapon during the wars. It was widely used in World War I. Thereafter, it was extensively employed by the Iraqi troops against the Iranian military personnel and even c...

the relationship between fatigue and mental health in chemical warfare victims with bronchiolitis obliterans     abbasi s [1] , mehdizadeh s [2] *, moqaddam m [3]     received: 8 mar, 2013 accepted: 10 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : fatigue is one of the most debilitating symptoms in patients with respiratory disorders. in addition, among the chronic disease, lung disease have the h...

use by the OPCW inspectorate. Use of GC with one or more spectrometric technique such as mass spectrometry is required to conRrm the presence of chemical warfare agents. For this reason many analyses are carried out by GC-MS under electron impact or chemical ionization conditions. For analyses involving low levels of chemical warfare agents in the presence of high levels of interfering chemical...