Documents tagged with organophosphate

Developmental Changes in PON1 Enzyme Activity in Young Children and Effects of PON1 Polymorphisms

Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is an enzyme that detoxifies activated organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) and is also involved in oxidative stress pathways.
  • ehponline published this 10 / 07 / 2009
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Consumption of a High-Fat Diet in Adulthood Ameliorates the Effects of Neonatal Parathion Exposure o

Developmental exposure to a wide variety of developmental neurotoxicants, including organophosphate pesticides, evokes late-emerging and persistent abnormalities in acetylcholine (ACh) systems. We ...
  • ehponline published this 06 / 15 / 2009
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Oxidative and Excitatory Mechanisms of Developmental Neurotoxicity: Transcriptional Profiles for Chl

Oxidative stress and excitotoxicity underlie the developmental neurotoxicity of numerous chemicals.
  • ehponline published this 04 / 22 / 2009
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Ultraviolet Photolysis of Chlorpyrifos: Developmental Neurotoxicity Modeled in PC12 Cells

Ultraviolet photodegradation products from pesticides form both in the field and during water treatment.
  • ehponline published this 03 / 20 / 2009
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Neonatal Exposure to Low Doses of Diazinon: Long-Term Effects on Neural Cell Development and Acetylc

The developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphate pesticides involves mechanisms other than their shared property of cholinesterase inhibition.
  • ehponline published this 10 / 10 / 2008
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Para Niños Saludables: A Community Intervention Trial to Reduce Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure i

Exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides is an occupational hazard for farmworkers and affects their children through the take-home pathway.
  • ehponline published this 10 / 08 / 2008
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Exposure of Neonatal Rats to Parathion Elicits Sex-Selective Impairment of Acetylcholine Systems in

Organophosphates elicit developmental neurotoxicity through multiple mechanisms other than their shared property as cholinesterase inhibitors. Accordingly, these agents may differ in their effects ...
  • ehponline published this 10 / 07 / 2008
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