The value of novel oximes for treatment of poisoning by organophosphorus compounds

F Worek, H Thiermann - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2013 - Elsevier
Poisoning by organophosphorus compounds (OP) still is a major therapeutic problem.
Intentional OP pesticide poisoning results in up to 300.000 deaths each year and highly …

Recent advances in cholinergic mechanisms as reactions to toxicity, stress, and neuroimmune insults

Z Kovarik, G Moshitzky, N Maček Hrvat… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review presents recent studies of the chemical and molecular regulators of
acetylcholine (ACh) signaling and the complexity of the small molecule and RNA regulators …

Counteracting poisoning with chemical warfare nerve agents

N Maček Hrvat, Z Kovarik - Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju, 2020 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Phosphylation of the pivotal enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) by nerve agents
(NAs) leads to irreversible inhibition of the enzyme and accumulation of neurotransmitter …

Targeting organophosphorus compounds poisoning by novel quinuclidine-3 oximes: Development of butyrylcholinesterase-based bioscavengers

A Zandona, M Katalinić, G Šinko… - Archives of …, 2020 - Springer
A library of 14 mono-oxime quinuclidinium-based compounds with alkyl or benzyl
substituent were synthesized and characterized in vitro as potential antidotes for …

Pharmacokinetic evaluation of brain penetrating morpholine-3-hydroxy-2-pyridine oxime as an antidote for nerve agent poisoning

T Zorbaz, P Mišetić, N Probst, S Žunec… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nerve agents, the deadliest chemical warfare agents, are potent inhibitors of
acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and cause rapid cholinergic crisis with serious symptoms of …

Butyrylcholinesterase inhibited by nerve agents is efficiently reactivated with chlorinated pyridinium oximes

T Zorbaz, D Malinak, K Kuca, K Musilek… - Chemico-biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bispyridinium oximes with one (K865, K866, K867) or two (K868, K869, K870) ortho-
positioned chlorine moiety, analogous to previously known K027, K048 and K203 oximes …

A comprehensive evaluation of novel oximes in creation of butyrylcholinesterase-based nerve agent bioscavengers

M Katalinić, NM Hrvat, K Baumann, SM Piperčić… - Toxicology and applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
A well-considered treatment of acute nerve agents poisoning involves the exogenous
administration of butyrylcholinesterase (BChE, EC 3.1. 1.8) as a stoichiometric bioscavenger …

Evaluation of oxime K203 as antidote in tabun poisoning

Z Kovarik, A Lucić Vrdoljak, S Berend… - Arhiv za higijenu rada i …, 2009 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak We studied bispyridinium oxime K203 [(E)-1-(4-carbamoylpyridinium)-4-(4-
hydroxyimino methylpyridinium)-but-2-ene dibromide] with tabun-inhibited human …

Pseudo-catalytic scavenging: searching for a suitable reactivator of phosphorylated butyrylcholinesterase

Z Kovarik, M Katalinić, G Šinko, J Binder… - Chemico-biological …, 2010 - Elsevier
Butyrylcholinesterase is considered to be an endogenous stoichiometric bioscavenger of
organophosphorus compounds (OPs), but due to limited concentration of BChE in the …

Reversal of Tabun Toxicity Enabled by a Triazole‐Annulated Oxime Library—Reactivators of Acetylcholinesterase

Z Kovarik, J Kalisiak, NM Hrvat… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme that degrades the neurotransmitter acetylcholine,
when covalently inhibited by organophosphorus compounds (OPs), such as nerve agents …