Luca Turin

Athens, Ulm

Founder and Writer at Luca Turin on perfume etc.

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A chance insight into phosgene toxicity

1 month ago | biorxiv.org | Ekin Daplan |Enrique Rodriguez |Nick Lane |Luca Turin

AbstractIt has long been known that phosgene, a war gas and an industrial reagent, causes intense oxidative stress, but how it does so remains unclear. Here we report an accidental discovery: Electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) of live fruit flies reveals that phosgene exposure results in a distinctive manganese (Ⅱ) hyperfine structure. After exposure to phosgene, every batch of flies consistently displays the Mn (Ⅱ) signal.

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