https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06 Describe what Sarin does to the body (muscle contraction) and how it would effect the respiratory system and cause asphyxiation. en-us 2017-04-07 11:52:19 UTC 2026-03-17 14:50:06 UTC hello@padlet.com vdgatcia https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363194 Sarin causes smooth muscles and secretions to go crazy by blocking an AchE from breaking down a neurotransmitter. Nerves continue to fire messages and muscles such as the diaphragm and intercostal muscles proceed in contraction therefor leading the body to inhale O2. Sarin causes paralysis of the muscles and therefore we are unable to process the gas out of the body. CO2 then has no way to get out of our body. ]]> 2017-04-07 12:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363194 https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363208 Sarin: an organphorous nerve gas developed in Germany during WW2

Diaphragm and intercostal muscles would continuously contract due to the fact that too much ACh was entering the muscles.]]> 2017-04-07 12:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363208 https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363280 Sarin causes smooth muscle and secretions to malfunction. The nerves to those areas keep firing. It blocks AchE.]]> 2017-04-07 12:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363280 sugarcookie799 https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363316 Sarin is a poison that attacks the respiratory system by blocking or stopping AChe from doing its job, which is breaking down ACh at the end of muscle contraction. Without AChe, the muscles in your body keep contracting, meaning that the intercostal muscles that help you ventilate would keep contracting so that you would not be able to expire CO2. The diaphragm would also continue to contract, so it would also be hard inspire. Essentially the body drowns in CO2.
-(Caroline & Samara)]]> 2017-04-07 12:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363316 https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363411 Sarin attacks the nervous system by interfering with the degradation of the neurotransmitter ACh at neuromuscular junctions. Because it's inhalable, the respiration system is affected by sarin in the sense that there's suffocation from lung muscle paralysis. Asphyxiation- keeps causing neurons to keep firing causing muscles to keep contracting aka the lungs contracting over and over, not letting you release CO2 and keep receiving O2 which causes people to drown in CO2 and O2.]]> 2017-04-07 12:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363411 schulze1014 https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363670 Sarin was developed in 1937 originally for an insecticide. Eventually, people began realizing it's effects. Sarin attacks the nervous system by depriving the body of AChe (breaks down ACh) and ACh becomes too prominent, making muscle relaxation impossible. 
When you ventilate, intercostal muscles contract and relax. Without the ability to relax the intercostal muscles, you will be unable to exhale. Oxygen will continue to enter the body and Carbon Dioxide will be unable to escape. The body's PH levels will be disrupted and a victim will "drown" in their Carbon Dioxide.]]> 2017-04-07 12:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363670 https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363858 Sarin blocks the enzymes that would break down your neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. Since sarin blocks AChE, Ach can't be broken down which results in your muscles contracting uncontrollably.  When you muscles contract continuously you keep breathing in (inspiration) oxygen and sarin.  The concentration of oxygen increases and so does carbon dioxide. However since the muscle stay contracted you can't breath out so there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the lungs.]]> 2017-04-07 12:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vpodkomorski/ddpt7o1ypv06/wish/165363858