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Pesticide Contamination in the Hair of Children From Colonia San Juan, a Rural Community in Paraguay. [PDF]

Drug Test Anal
Hair analysis in children from a rural community in Paraguay reveals exposure to organophosphates, pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, fungicides, herbicides, and endocrine disruptors, highlighting the urgent need for stricter environmental protections and preventive health measures. ABSTRACT Chronic exposure to pesticides can cause carcinogenic, reproductive,
Benitez Leite S, Iglesias-Gonzalez A, Mesquita MN, Macchi ML, Mesnage R, Appenzeller BMR.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Organochlorine pesticides residues in commercial milk: a systematic review

Acta Agronómica, 2019
Milk is a very important food for human consumption, mainly due to its content of fat, protein, vitamins and minerals.  However, the use of organochlorine pesticides (OCP) for decades has contaminated the soil, water and air, and thus has also ...
Isabella Clarissa Vasconcelos Rêgo, Greice Nara Viana dos Santos, Greice Nivea Viana dos Santos, Joseph Simões Ribeiro, Ruy Bessa Lopes, Soraia Baia dos Santos, Alessandra de Sousa, Rosivaldo de Alcântara Mendes, Aliza Thieko Fernandes Taketomi, Arthur Abinader Vasconcelos, Paulo Sérgio Taube   +10 more
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Identification of sex-specific DNA methylation changes driven by specific chemicals in cord blood in a Faroese birth cohort

Epigenetics, 2018
Faroe islanders consume marine foods contaminated with methylmercury (MeHg), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and other toxicants associated with chronic disease risks.
Yuet-Kin Leung, Bin Ouyang, Liang Niu, Changchun Xie, Jun Ying, Mario Medvedovic, Aimin Chen, Pal Weihe, Damaskini Valvi, Philippe Grandjean, Shuk-Mei Ho   +10 more
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Evaluation of the fate of trace organic compounds using the Level III fugacity model: a case study of Rajbandh open dump site in Khulna City of Bangladesh

Environmental Systems Research, 2023
Khulna is the 3rd largest city corporation in Bangladesh that produces 450 tons of Municipal solid waste (MSW) per day and dumps the waste in the Rajbandh open dump site.
K. M. Pangkaj, I. M. Rafizul, E. Kraft, S. Berner   +3 more
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Organochlorine pesticide levels in Greek patients with Parkinson’s disease

Toxicology Reports, 2020
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease, mostly presenting with characteristic motor symptoms. Organochlorines (OC) are a class of widely-used pesticides that have been included among the list of environmental factors ...
Efthimios Dardiotis, Athina-Maria Aloizou, Evagelos Sakalakis, Vasileios Siokas, Michalis Koureas, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Efthymia Petinaki, Martin Wilks, Aristidis Tsatsakis, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Leonidas Stefanis, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou   +11 more
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Halogenated Compounds and Carcinogenesis: An Integrative Review of Their Role and Therapeutic Options

NUST Journal of Natural Sciences, 2023
Halogenated compounds, a significant category of chemicals, have been identified as contributors to the development and progression of cancer inside the human body. The elimination of these compounds poses considerable challenges.
Hina Kausar, Muhammad Abubakar, Sarmad Habib Khan , Bisma Khalil, Saadia Sharif   +4 more
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Efeito de alterações nas características do solo sobre a degradação de hexaclorobenzeno Effects of soil characteristics on hexachlorobenzene degradation

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2006
Alterações das características de solo contaminado com hexaclorobenzeno foram promovidas para estudo dos efeitos sobre a comunidade microbiana e sobre a degradação do composto.
Lia Emi Nakagawa, Mara Mercedes de Andréa   +1 more
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Cytogenetic anomalies of winter wheat cells, induced by chemical contamination of the territory of Kalush industrial district

Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 2018
Mass accumulation of toxic waste near inhabited localities has changed some regions of Ukraine, in particular Kalush industrial area (Ivano-Frankivsk region), into zones of ecological disaster.
V. V. Morgun, R. A. Yakymchuk
doaj   +1 more source

Melanoma and Other Melanistic Lesions in Brown Bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus From Waterbodies in the Northeastern United States and Canada: Identification of Risk Factors

Journal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Melanistic lesions, including non‐raised black areas due to proliferations of melanocytes and melanomacrophages in the dermis and epidermis, as well as raised black areas consistent with melanoma, are described in brown bullhead (BBH) Ameiurus nebulosus from three water bodies in the northeastern United States and Quebec, Canada.
Vicki S. Blazer, Peter Emerson, Matthew Bodnar, Thomas Jones, David R. Russell, Matthew Pehrson, Cheyenne R. Smith, Danielle Cleveland, Mark J. Henderson, Patricia M. Mazik   +9 more
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Quantum Chemical Studies on the Adsorption of Hexachlorobenzene, Decachlorobiphenyl, Benzene, and Biphenyl by BN-Doped Graphene and C-Doped Hexagonal Boron Nitride Modified with β-Cyclodextrin

Crystals, 2023
In this study, the adsorption of aromatic organic pollutants such as hexachlorobenzene, decachlorobiphenyl, benzene, and biphenyl by 2D nanomaterials was investigated using quantum chemical methods.
Chien-Lin Lee, Tai-Chao Chang, Chia Ming Chang   +2 more
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