Tables & Figures
TABLES
| 1.1 | The Chemical and Biological Warfare Threat Spectrum | 12 |
| 2.1 | The Phases of the U. S. Offensive Biological Warfare Program | 18 |
| 2.2 | U. S. Herbicide Usage by Type of Mission | 27 |
| 2.3 | Plant Hormones and Their Functions | 29 |
| 3.1 | Some Goals of the Human Genome Project for 1998–2003 | 39 |
| 4.1 | Families of Venomous Snakes | 46 |
| 4.2 | Some Characteristics of Chemical and Toxin Agents | 51 |
| 4.3 | Comparative Lethality of Toxins in Laboratory Mice | 52 |
| 4.4 | Categorization of Toxins by Toxicity | 53 |
| 5.1 | Endothelin/Sarafotoxin | 68 |
| 5.2 | Some Effects of Peptides | 79 |
| 5.3 | Some Regulatory Functions of Peptides | 79 |
| 6.1 | Chronology of Different Approaches to Drug Discovery | 98 |
| 7.1 | Amount of Toxin Required for Lethality in Various Attack Scenarios | 107 |
| 7.2 | Nonpeptide Antagonists | 113 |
| 8.1 | Types of Biological Warfare | 122 |
| 8.2 | Lactose Absorption by Adult Population | 126 |
| 8.3 | Some Racial/Ethnic Differences in Single-Gene Disorders | 126 |
| 9.1 | Toxin Assessment According to Criteria for Selecting Toxins as Toxin Weapons | 142 |
| 9.2 | Toxin Risk Assessment | 143 |
FIGURES
| 4.1 | Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the Interaction Between Superantigen and MHC Class II and the TCR Complex | 62 |
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Publication information:
Book title: The New Biological Weapons: Threat, Proliferation, and Control.
Contributors: Malcolm Dando - Author.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner.
Place of publication: Boulder, CO.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: vii.
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