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Pesticide exposure in Sri Lanka [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Pesticides are commonly used worldwide both in agricultural and domestic settings. The benefits to society and agriculture are well documented. There are, however, dangers associated with the use of pesticides. Some pesticides, such as organophosphates (the most commonly used pesticide worldwide), kill pests through a biological pathway that may also ...
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A new approach methodology to identify tumorigenic chemicals using short-term exposures and transcript profiling

Frontiers in Toxicology
Current methods for cancer risk assessment are resource-intensive and not feasible for most of the thousands of untested chemicals. In earlier studies, we developed a new approach methodology (NAM) to identify liver tumorigens using gene expression ...
Victoria Ledbetter, Victoria Ledbetter, Scott Auerbach, Logan J. Everett, Beena Vallanat, Anna Lowit, Gregory Akerman, William Gwinn, Leah C. Wehmas, Michael F. Hughes, Michael Devito, J. Christopher Corton   +11 more
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Impact of occupational pesticide exposure on the human gut microbiome

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
The rising use of pesticides in modern agriculture has led to a shift in disease burden in which exposure to these chemicals plays an increasingly important role.
Milla F. Brandao Gois, Asier Fernández-Pato, Anke Huss, Ranko Gacesa, Ranko Gacesa, Cisca Wijmenga, Rinse K. Weersma, Rinse K. Weersma, Jingyuan Fu, Jingyuan Fu, Roel C. H. Vermeulen, Alexandra Zhernakova, Virissa C. Lenters, Alexander Kurilshikov   +13 more
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Pesticide exposure and associated acute health effects among smallholder farmers in Mbale District, Eastern Uganda

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Pesticide use for agriculture is on the rise in Uganda. Many farmers improperly use pesticides, which puts them at risk of exposure and adverse health effects. We assessed pesticide exposure levels and acute health effects among smallholder
Elizabeth Muhumuza, Charles Ssemugabo, Andrew Tusubira, Maggie Ssekitto Ashaba, Deborah Wanzira, David Guwattudde   +5 more
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Dietary Magnesium Intake Ameliorates the Association Between Household Pesticide Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes: Data From NHANES, 2007–2018

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Aims/HypothesisThis study aimed to explore whether household pesticide exposure in the general population increased the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and whether intake of dietary magnesium could lower type 2 diabetes from household pesticide ...
Jungao Huang, Jungao Huang, Liqin Hu, Juan Yang   +3 more
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Pesticide exposure and risk of aggressive prostate cancer among private pesticide applicators

Environmental Health, 2020
Background Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among men in developed countries; however, little is known about modifiable risk factors.
Larissa A. Pardo, L. E. Beane Freeman, C. Lerro, G. Andreotti, J. Hofmann, C. Parks, D. Sandler, J. Lubin, A. Blair, S. Koutros   +9 more
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Chronic exposure to imidacloprid increases neuronal vulnerability to mitochondrial dysfunction in the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) [PDF]

, 2015
This work was funded jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Scottish Government, and The Wellcome Trust, under the ...
Bollan, Karen A., Connolly, C.N., Moffat, C., Buckland, Stephen Terrence, Goncalves Pacheco, J., Huang, Jeffrey; id_orcid, Buckland, Stephen T., Pacheco, Joao Goncalves, Moffat, Christopher, Samson, A.J., Connolly, Christopher N., Bollan, K.A., Sharp, Sheila, Samson, Andrew J., Sharpe, S., Huang, J., Buckland, Stephen Terrence; id_orcid   +16 more
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The relationship between pesticide exposures and primary headaches in adults: A cross-sectional study based on Rafsanjan cohort study

Preventive Medicine Reports
Objectives: Toxic substances can trigger headaches. The prevalence of pesticide use and headaches was high among the population of Rafsanjan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was used to collect data from 9991 adults who participated via sampling people ...
Alireza Vakilian, Parvin Khalili, Zahra Jamali, Amir Moghadam -Ahmadi, Nazanin Jalali, Movahedeh Mohamadi, Seyed Hamid Pakzadmoghadam, Fatemeh Ayoobi   +7 more
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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
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Respiratory allergy and asthma associated with pesticide exposure amongst women in rural Western Cape [PDF]

, 2012
Includes bibliographical references.Pesticide exposure has been increasingly associated with adverse respiratory health effects including asthma and allergy. However, few studies have been conducted among women and workers in developing countries.
Ndlovu, Vuyelwa
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