Folic acid supplementation alleviates behavioral manifestations of lindane-induced seizures [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2019 Lindane is a scabicide and pesticide that can exert neurotoxic effects such as tonic and clonic seizures that are refractory to many antiepileptic drugs.
Đurić Emilija +7 more
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Reproductive and health-related hazards of Lindane exposure in Aral sea area
Environmental Disease, 2017 Background: The Aral Sea problem arises after improper regulation of the water from cross-borders river and heavy application of the pesticides over the cotton fields in the area. Objectives: This review article was designed to highlight the reproductive
Aru Balmagambetova +5 more
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Degradation of Lindane by persulfate/ferrioxalate/solar light process: Influential operating parameters, kinetic model and by-products [PDF]
, 2023 This work describes the removal of lindane by persulfate activated with ferrioxalate under simulated solar light irradiation and circumneutral pH conditions.
Conte, Leandro +9 more
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Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2018 Field studies were conducted in villages near the peri urban Dema area, Seke district, Zimbabwe, in order to understand the effect of the insecticides fenitrothion and lindane on Periplaneta americana and Blattella germanica cockroaches.
N. Lukwa, T. Mduluza, C. Nyoni, M. Zimba
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Simultaneous Removal of Lindane, Lead and Cadmium from Soils by Rhamnolipids Combined with Citric Acid. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 This study investigated the performance of rhamnolipids-citric acid mixed agents in simultaneous desorption of lindane and heavy metals from soils. The capacity of the mixed agents to solubilize lindane, lead and cadmium in aqueous solution was also ...
Jinzhong Wan +8 more
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Modulatory effects of delta sleep-inducing peptide in a lindane model of generalized seizures [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2018 Delta sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) is an endogenous peptide that is constantly present in several different brain regions. Lindane is used as a pesticide and scabicide, but it also induces seizures refractory to conventional antiepileptics.
Hrnčić Dragan +5 more
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The long-term environmental risks from the aging of organochlorine pesticide lindane
Environment International, 2020 Although increased contact time (aging) of pesticides in the soil decreases their bioavailability, this does not mean that the bound residues formed during the aging process pose fewer risk to the soil environment.
Ting Xu +5 more
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Lindane Bioremediation Capability of Bacteria Associated with the Demosponge Hymeniacidon perlevis
Marine Drugs, 2017 Lindane is an organochlorine pesticide belonging to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that has been widely used to treat agricultural pests. It is of particular concern because of its toxicity, persistence and tendency to bioaccumulate in terrestrial ...
Stabili Loredana +8 more
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Gaseous neurotransmitter nitric oxide: Its role in experimental models of epilepsy [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2012 Epilepsy is one of the leading neurological disorders and affects 1-2% of the world’s population. Generally, it is a result of an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory phenomena in the central nervous system (CNS), but the mechanisms of its ...
Hrnčić D. +6 more
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Effect of lindane at repeated low doses
, 2022 The relationship between brain concentration of lindane and its convulsant effect have been studied in rats after repeated low doses of lindane. The mean brain plateau concentration was achieved in 5–8 days.
Gelpí, Emili +3 more
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