More than 20,000 passengers of Tokyo underground trains were intoxicated with warfare toxic chemicals. Most of the patients examined had marked miosis and decreased serum cholinesterase activity. Transient increase of serum CPK activity after 3 days of the exposure was the another sign. /The authors/ intensively analyzed the metabolites in the urine of 4 patients. The following analytic results indicated the exposure to sarin as well as contaminated compounds such as diisopropyl methylphosphonate (DIMP), ethyl methylphosphonate fluoridate (EMPF, or ethylsarin), diethyl methylphosphonate (DEMP), and ethyl isopropyl methylphosphonate (EIMP). (1) Isopropanol (IPA) and ethanol (EtOH) were detected of large quantities in the urine samples, and were thought to be derived from sarin and the sarin counterpart, ethyl methylphosphonate fluoridate, diisopropyl methylphosphonate, diethyl methylphosphonate and ethyl isopropyl methylphosphonate. (2) Monoalkyl methylphosphonic acids (isopropyl methylphosphonic acid (IMPA) and ethyl methylphosphonic acid (EMPA) also were excreted in large amounts with taking the similar excretion pattern of isopropanol and EtOH. (3) The metabolite only derived from sarin and ethylsarin is F anions whose integral output in the urine was less than the equimolar level of the excreted (isopropyl methylphosphonic acid + ethyl methylphosphonic acid + isopropanol + ethanol). (4) Other corroborative findings were low lethality: of more than 5,510 patients treated, 11 were acutely dead. (5) Nine exposed males had higher sister chromatid exchange (SCE) rate (5.00 + or - 1.48/cell) than the control (3.81 + or - 0.697/cell), because dialkyl methylphosphonates seemed to have alkylating activity and producing DNA adducts. The sister chromatid exchange rate also increased after the in vitro exposure of lymphocytes to dialkyl methylphosphonates.
Distribution, metabolism, and elimination of sarin in humans appear to resemble findings in animals. ... The sarin metabolite isopropyl methylphosphonic acid (IMPA) was found in urine of humans after the terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system... . /There were/ peak levels of IMPA or methylphosphonic acid in urine 10 to 18 hours after exposure ... . The levels of IMPA in urine correlated with the degree of clinical symptoms. /There was/ also ... evidence of distribution of sarin to the human brain in 4 of the 12 people who died after exposure. Solubilized sarin-bound AChE from formalin-fixed cerebellar tissue of victims of the Tokyo attack contained a derivative of the sarin hydrolysis product methylphosphonic acid (MPA). The estimated amounts of MPA ranged from 0.32 to 1.13 nmol/g tissue. Although no IMPA was found, it was assumed that IMPA had hydrolyzed to MPA in the formalin solution over 2 years of storage.
... rats /were injected/ sc with a single dose of 75 ug/kg of sarin /and/ excretion of the hydrolyzed metabolites, the alkylmethylphosphonic acids, which include isopropyl methylphosphonic acid and other methylphosphonic acids /was measured/. Urinary elimination was found to be quite rapid; the terminal elimination half-life of sarin metabolites in urine was 3.7 +/- 0.1 hours. Nearly all of the administered dose of sarin was retrieved from the urine in metabolite form after 2 days.
The organophosphorus anti-ChE agents are hydrolyzed in the body by two families of enzymes known as the carboxylesterases and the paraoxonases (A-esterases). The enzymes are found in plasma and liver and scavenge or hydrolyze a large number of organophosphorus compounds by cleaving the phosphoester, anhydride, PF, or PCN bonds. /Anticholinesterase agents/
The increasing threat of nerve agent use for terrorist purposes against civilian and military population calls for effective therapeutic preparedness. At present, administration of atropine and an oxime are recommended, although effectiveness of this treatment is not proved in clinical trials. Here, monitoring of intoxications with organophosphorus (OP) pesticides may be of help, as their actions are closely related to those of nerve agents and intoxication and therapy follow the same principles. To this end, the clinical course of poisoning and the effectiveness of antidotal therapy were investigated in patients requiring artificial ventilation being treated with atropine and obidoxime. However, poisoning with OP pesticides shows extremely heterogeneous pictures of cholinergic crisis frequently associated with clinical complications. To achieve valuable information for the therapy of nerve agent poisoning, cases resembling situations in nerve agent poisoning had to be extracted: (a) intoxication with OPs forming reactivatable OP-AChE-complexes with short persistence of the OP in the body resembling inhalational sarin intoxication; (b) intoxication with OPs resulting rapidly in an aged OP-AChE-complex resembling inhalational soman intoxication; (c) intoxications with OPs forming a reactivatable AChE-OP complex with prolonged persistence of the OP in the body resembling percutaneous VX intoxication. From these cases it was concluded that sufficient reactivation of nerve agent inhibited non-aged AChE should be possible, if the poison load was not too high and the effective oximes were administered early and with an appropriate duration.../Nerve agents/
来源:Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
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其他毒物 - 有机磷
Other Poison - Organophosphate
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大鼠LC50 = 150毫克/立方米/10分钟
LC50 (rat) = 150 mg/m3/10min
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进行了一项时间过程研究,以测量暴露于不同剂量沙林和毒扁豆碱的大鼠大脑中乙酰胆碱酯酶(AChE)基因的表达。短期效应研究采用急性单次皮下剂量(s.c.)80微克/千克(0.5 x LD50)沙林。在大脑皮层和小脑中,AChE mRNA表达在2.5小时、24小时和72小时显著下降。生化研究显示,血浆丁酰胆碱酯酶(BChE)和大脑AChE活性在2.5小时显著降低,在两种情况下都在24小时恢复到接近对照组的值。对于长期慢性研究,三组雌性大鼠分别每天肌肉注射(i.m.)毒扁豆碱(0.1毫克/千克/天),皮下注射(s.c.)沙林(15微克/千克/天)独立给药,以及联合剂量毒扁豆碱(i.m.)(0.1毫克/千克/天)随后是沙林(s.c.)(15微克/千克/天),连续给药30天。在大鼠大脑皮层和小脑中观察到30天后的差异AChE mRNA水平,以及在没有进一步给药的另一个30天的滞后期后。在30天的生化研究中,血浆(BChE)和大脑(AChE)显示出不规则的抑制轮廓,在60天后恢复到控制水平。无论是短期还是长期的慢性研究,急性单次皮下给药沙林的实验表明,AChE抑制本身并不导致AChE基因mRNA表达的变化。这些观察结果进一步表明,给药途径以及剂量暴露方案也参与了AChE mRNA表达的调节。
A time-course study was carried out to measure the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) gene expression in the brain of female rats exposed to different doses of sarin and physostigmine. Short-term effects were studied with an acute single subcutaneous dose (s.c.) of 80 ug kg(-1) (0.5 x LD50) sarin. Cortex and cerebellum showed a significant decline in AChE mRNA expression at 2.5, 24 and 72 hr. Biochemical studies showed that plasma butrylcholinesterase (BChE) and brain AChE activities were significantly decreased at 2.5 hr, which came back to near control values by 24 hr in both cases. For long-term chronic studies, three groups of female rats received daily doses of physostigmine (0.1 mg kg(-1) day(-1)) intramuscularly (i.m.), sarin (15 ug kg(-1) day(-1)) s.c. independently and a combined dose of physostigmine (i.m.) (0.1 mg kg(-1) day(-1)) followed by sarin (s.c.) (15 ug kg(-1) day(-1)) continuously for 30 days. Differential AChE mRNA levels in cortex and cerebellum of rat brain were observed after 30 days and after a lag period of another 30 days with no further administration. Plasma (BChE) and brain (AChE) showed irregular inhibition profile in biochemical studies at 30 days and returned to control levels after 60 days. The acute single subcutaneous administration of sarin for short-term as well as chronic long-term studies showed that AChE inhibition alone does not lead to observed changes in mRNA expression of AChE gene. These observations further suggest that route of administration as well as dose exposure regimen also contributes to the regulation of AChE mRNA expression.
Two guinea pig models were used to study the anticonvulsant potency of diazepam, midazolam, and scopolamine against seizures induced by the nerve agents tabun, sarin, soman, cyclosarin, O-ethyl S-(2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl)methylphosphonothioate (VX), and O-isobutyl S-(2-diethylamino)ethyl)-methyl phosphonothioate (VR). Animals instrumented for electroencephalogram recording were pretreated with pyridostigmine bromide (0.026 mg/kg im) 30 min before challenge with 2 x LD50 (s.c.) of a nerve agent. In model A, atropine sulfate (2.0 mg/kg im) and pyridine-2-aldoxime methylchloride (2-PAM; 25.0 mg/kg im) were given 1 min after nerve agent challenge, and the tested anticonvulsant was given (im) 5 min after seizure onset. In model B, a lower dose of atropine sulfate (0.1 mg/kg im) was given along with 2-PAM 1 min after nerve agent challenge, and the anticonvulsant was given at seizure onset. With the lower dose of atropine, seizure occurrence increased to virtually 100% for all agents; the time to seizure onset decreased for sarin, cyclosarin, and VX; the signs of nerve agent intoxication were more severe; and coma resulted frequently with cyclosarin. The anticonvulsant ED50 doses for scopolamine or diazepam were, in general, not different between the two models, whereas the anticonvulsant ED50 values of midazolam increased 3- to 17-fold with the lower atropine dose. Seizure termination times were not systematically affected by the different doses of atropine. The order of anticonvulsant effectiveness within each model was scopolamine > or = midazolam > diazepam. The findings indicate that the dose of atropine given as antidotal therapy can significantly influence measures of nerve agent toxicity and responsiveness to anticonvulsant therapy.
The fate of sarin in the blood is a major determinant of how much sarin reaches the central nervous system and other sites of systemic toxicity. In the blood, sarin first interacts with several esterases... Some of the esterases, such as paraoxonase, hydrolyze sarin to inactive metabolites. Two other blood esterases - AChE and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) - irreversibly bind to sarin. AChE found on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs), although chemically indistinguishable from AChE in the nervous system, has unknown physiological functions. These esterases in the blood are often described as "false targets" - by binding irreversibly to sarin, AChE and BuChE sequester sarin in the blood, thereby preventing some or all from reaching the CNS. However, esterases in the blood can be overwhelmed by high doses of sarin. The acute cholinergic syndrome occurs when RBC AChE is inhibited by 75 to 80 percent
A small amount (3.21 mg) of liquid sarin was applied to the skin of six subjects, and about 98% of it was recovered in the air. The tendency of sarin to evaporate rather than to penetrate skin was noted in a later, more extensive study.
Others studied the absorption of sarin vapor in rabbits, monkeys and humans. Retention in the nasal tract and trachea was 98% in rabbits and 93% in monkeys, leaving little to be absorbed in the terminal airways. During nasal breathing humans retained 96% of inhaled sarin.
A recent study in guinea pigs indicated that ... .The kidneys are the major route of elimination of sarin and its metabolites. Urinary elimination of sarin is rapid (terminal elimination half-life, 3.7 +/- 0.1 hr).
Detection of Chemical Warfare Nerve Agents via a Beckmann Fragmentation of Aldoxime
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A new (E)-pyrene-1-carbaldehyde O-tert-butyldimethylsilyl oxime 3 was synthesized for the detection of chemical warfare nerve agents, O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate (GB) and O-pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate (GD). H-1 NMR spectrum showed that the tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) group was deprotected using TBAF and the oximate supernucleophile was made. Upon addition of chemical warfare agents (GB and GD) (50 mol%), the reaction was completely finished within 5 min and also the color change of reaction mixture was observed under a hand-held UV lamp with the naked eye.
Hydrolysis of toxic organophosphorus compounds by o-iodosobenzoic acid and its derivatives
作者:Philip S. Hammond、Jeffry S. Forster、Claire N. Lieske、H. Dupont Durst
DOI:10.1021/ja00202a029
日期:1989.9
Hydrolyse des esters trimethyl-1,2,2 propyle et isopropyle de l'acide methyl phosphonofluoridique (soman et sarin respectivement), du N,N-dimethyl phosphoramidocyanidate d'ethyle (tabum) et du (diethyl nitro-4 phenyl) phosphate dans des solutions aqueuses micellaires de chlorure de (palmityl trimethyl) ammonium, en presence d'acide iodosyl-«2» benzoique
水解酯三甲基-1,2,2 丙基和异丙基甲基磷酰氟(soman 和 sarin 相关),du N,N-二甲基磷酰胺氰化物 d'ethyle (tabum) et du (diethyl nitro-4 phenyl) 磷酸 dans dessolutions aqueuses micelliaires de chlorure de (palmityl trimethyl) 铵, en d'acide iodosyl-«2»benzoique
Synthesis and analysis of phosphorylated nonapeptide adducts by LC/Q-TOF MS
GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Abstract A new method for the synthesis of organophosphorylated adducts of the nonapeptide FGESAGAAS is presented. The adducts were obtained by using sarin (GB) or soman (GD) as the organophosphorylating reagents and cesium carbonate as the acid scavenger. Greater than 50% of the peptide was modified on serine 4. MS/MS spectra acquired on an Agilent 6520 quadrupole time of flight
which leads to slower detoxification despite rapid hydrolysis. Enzyme engineering efforts based on rational design yielded two quadruple enzyme mutants with reversedenantioselectivity and overall enhanced activity against tested nerve agents. The reversed stereochemical preference is explained through modeling studies and the crystal structures of the two mutants. Using the engineered mutants in combination
Inhibition of Plasma Cholinesterase by O-Alkylfluorophosphonates
作者:Jiří Cabal、Jiří Kassa、Jiří Patočka
DOI:10.1135/cccc19970521
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Inhibition of plasma cholinesterase by three methylfluorophosphonates (MFF), sarin, soman and cyclosin, and by the products of their hydrolysis and alcoholysis was examined. Inhibition by phosphonic acids and by methyl esters derived from MFF was purely competitive while that by MFF was irreversible. The rate of phosphorylation of cholinesterase by MFF differs, depending on the structure of the alkoxy group in the MFF and decreases in the sequence soman-sarin-cyclosin. The affinity values of MFF, phosphonic acids and methyl esters of phosphonic acid for cholinesterase are comparable. The in vitro kinetic parameters suggest that plasma cholinesterase might act as a natural detoxicating agent in cases of poisoning with the above inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase.
Group 13 chelates in nerve gas agent and pesticide dealkylation
作者:Amitabha Mitra、David A. Atwood、Jeffrey Struss、Daniel J. Williams、Bradley J. McKinney、William R. Creasy、David J. McGarvey、H. Dupont Durst、Roderick Fry
DOI:10.1039/b717041f
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Schiff base boron and aluminium bromides have been used to cleave organophosphate nerve agents and pesticides and their simulants: salben(tBu)[BBr2]2 was very effective in cleaving the VX simulants EMPPT and DEPPT and nerve agent VX; salen(tBu)AlBr was effective in cleaving the nerve agents VX and Soman and the pesticideDiazinon.