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Study of the Toxic Action of Chemical Weapons Through the Use of Simulants Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol. 16, Suppl. 1, pp 143-146, 2018 Copyright © 2018 Trakia University Available online at: http://www.uni-sz.bg ISSN 1313-3551 (online) doi:10.15547/tjs.2018.s.01.029 STUDY OF THE TOXIC ACTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS THROUGH THE USE OF SIMULANTS V. Ivanov1*, N. Bozakova2, V. Petrova-Tacheva3, M. Platikanova4, V. Slavova1 1Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and MDS, Faculty of Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 2Department of General Animal Breeding, Animal Hygiene, Ethology and Animal Protection Section, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 3Department of Molecular Biology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine Trakia University, Armeyska 11, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 4Department of Hygiene, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakia University, 11 Armeyska Street, Stara Zagora ABSTRACT Chemical weapons have been used repeatedly in the history of mankind in a number of wars and terrorist acts. They have caused major damage to human health and taken many lives. Instead of chemical weapons, various simulants - compounds with a similar action of these weapons, but without such high toxicity for human health - could be used for developing antidotes to specific chemicals, doing research on detecting them, developing sorbents for gas masks, military exercises, etc. The purpose of this report is to examine the possibilities of using chemical weapons through their simulants which resemble their toxic effects. Key words: chemical warfare agents, tabun, sarin, soman, sulfur mustard INTRODUCTION The team of authors has a rich experience in Chemical weapons have been repeatedly used using simulants when researching the process in human history. They have damaged the of chemical warfare agents sorption in gas health or killed many people. They pose a mask sorbents and in the eventual development serious threat to the environment. of new sorbents. In many cases, instead of using real warfare The purpose of this paper is to present ways of agents, simulants can be used, especially in using chemical warfare simulants, mimicking scientific research on the mechanisms of toxic the toxic action of real warfare agents but action; in the process of developing antidotes; much less dangerous for the people involved. when experimenting on and studying their resorption through the skin; when developing Presentation means of protection, decontamination solutions During the 1930s Strader’s group carried out and lotions; when studying the process of experiments on the toxic action of tabun, sarin, degradation of real warfare agents; when and soman with the purpose of using these developing means and methods of detection; chemical compounds as herbicides and when carrying out military training, etc. insecticides for agricultural protection (1). An Warfare agent simulants have very similar accident occurred and caused them severe manifestation of a particular real warfare agent intoxication. That incident gave clear but, at the same time, pose lower risk to indication of their potential as chemical researchers, military staff and civilians. Their warfare agents. In the years to come, they have toxicity is lower and by rule, they are not that repeatedly been used killing many people. easily absorbed through the skin. These chemical compounds irreversibly inhibit ___________________________ acetylcholine esterase, an enzyme which acts *Correspondence to: Veselin Ivanov, 11 in the mechanism of neural impulse transfer to Armeyska Str, 6000 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, the synapses. A similar action mechanism is Phone: +35942664326, E-mail: observed in the later developed V-gases and [email protected] the so called “novichki” nerve agents. Zelinski Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol. 16, Suppl. 1, 2018 143 IVANOV V., et al. experienced quite the same case of intoxication proteins of the cytosolic fraction of the brain is when researching and experimenting with observed. Activation of c-Jun N-terminal sulfur mustard (mustard gas) (2). kinase (JNK), as well as a slight activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in Warfare agent simulants can be used when the cytosolic fraction are also observed. The studying the mechanisms of their toxic action, activation of these enzymes can be attributed when researching the absorption of warfare to the high toxicity of these nerve agents (5). agents through the skin, or when developing new antidotes. Atropinised rats were intoxicated with a dose of soman, 6 or 8 times LD50 and after that A team of scientists have synthesized a non- treated with oxym HI-6, a few hours after toxic and harmless analogue of sarin, isopropyl intoxication. Oral or intravenous application of p-nytrophenyl methylphosphonate (INMP) for pinacolyl dimethylphosphinate (PDP), a soman safe simulation of acetylcholine esterase simulator, introduced at gradually increasing (AChE) inhibition when exposed to sarin. This intervals, before intoxication with soman, substance stays stable for years and can be obviously turns out to be very active in HI-6- used in ordinary laboratories, without specific induced recovery. Therapeutically, PDP is protection measures. This reagent is considered active only when introduced immediately after very useful since it allows carrying out soman intoxication and treatment with oxym experiments which very well simulate (6). acetylcholine esterase inhibited by sarin. That reagent has often been used in the development When laboratory rats are intoxicated with high of new antidotes. Until now the possibilities of doses of soman, (5-8 X LD50), that chemical reactivation of inhibited acetylcholine esterase compound is stored in temporary “depot”, with 40 antidotes, similar to pyridinealdoxime from where it is gradually released. In this methiodid (PAM) (including newly- way, no matter that the rats have been treated synthesized ones) have been researched. with reactivatorHIM-6 and atropine, the soman Among the antidotes tested in that experiment released from the depot re-intoxicates the was the new hydrophobic compound of the 2- organism so that death can occur in a few PAM type – 2-[(hydroxyimino)methyl]-1-[4- hours. Soman simulators, i.e. non-toxic (tert-butyl)benzyl] pyridinium bromide (3), structural analogues of soman have been which was revealed to have highest reactive synthesized. They are capable of preventing activity. death in rats intoxicated with soman by modifying the process of storing and releasing A research group have synthesized 12 soman from that depot. Earlier experiments analogues of organophosphorus nerve agents showed that preventive treatment with the with 3-chloro-7-oxy-4-methylcoumarin group. simulator pinacolyl dimethyl phosphinate Among them are analogues of pesticides (PDP), combined with HI-6 and atropine paraoxon, parathion and dimefox and also the decreases the toxic effect of soman. Apart from nerve agents diyzopropylflorphosphonate, that the rats were found to be of good overall tabun, sarin, cyclosarine, soman, VX and condition as regards their health condition and Russian VX. The results of acetylcholine neural functions. Quantitative experiments on esterase inhibition, in vivo toxicity tests of the the rats’ behaviour were also carried out. A representative analogue cyclosarin and kinetic microprocessor system was used to measure tests with phosphotriesterase (PTE) taken from the coordination behavior of rats. Residuous Pseudomonas diminuta and serum paraoxanase effects on the behavior of laboratory rats, after (PON1), taken from mammals confirm that the successful treatment were assessed. Animals analogues effectively emulate the parent nerve treated with atropine sulphate (25 mg/kg, agents. That makes them suitable tools for intraperitoneal application), soman (5 X LD50, various scientific tests and experiments, for intravenous application), HI-6 (56 mg/kg, example tests on enzymes, which effectively intravenous application) and soman simulator metabolize nerve agents in living organisms PDP, were compared with animals treated with and thus decrease the toxic effect of chemical the same substances but without PDP (7). warfare agents (4). Soman simulators have been synthesized. The When rats are intravenously injected (iv) with pinacolyl group in their structure has been a substance similar to soman and an changed, the phospholine oxygen has been organophosphorus chemical compound [bis substituted with sulfur, or the phosphorus (isopropylmethyl) phosphonate, BIMPand bis combined methyl groups have been substituted (pinacolyl methyl) phosphonate, ВРМР] an with ethyl or methoxy groups. All these increase of tyrosine phosphorylation of certain chemical compounds have been synthesized 144 Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol. 16, Suppl. 1, 2018 IVANOV V., et al. with the aim of investigating their capacity of REFERENCES diminishing the harmful effects of soman 1. Popov I., Popov G, Popov Tsv., Popova D. intoxication by means of oxyms (8). Chemical weapons. Military publishing House, Sofia, 2016. All three chemical warfare agents of soman, 2. Charalampiev M. 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