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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)
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Subject: Nerve agents and cholesterinaise inhibitors
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Date: 30 Aug 90 02:58:47 GMT
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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)


  I am no biochemist - my specialty is organic synthesis, but the Merck 
Index very clearly calls Sarin, Tabun and Soman cholesterinaise 
inhibitors, so I am inclined to believe them.
  As to the mechanical effects of these nerve agents on human physiology,
you will have to excuse any inaccuracies in my posting - I was writing from
faint memories of a Fall 1985 lecture on those agents by Prof. Todd Wipke
at UC Santa Cruz.





  
  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.