Organonitrogen Pesticides

Cholinergic Pesticides

Carla Falugi, Zoltan Rakonczay2, Hagen Thielecke3, Chiara Guida1, and Maria Grazia Aluigi 1Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Diagnostiche Integrate (DISC); Dipartimento di Biologia Università di Genova; 2University of Szeged, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Biology; 3Fraunhofer-Institute for Biomed. Engineering, Department of Bio hybrid Systems, St. Ingbert. 1Italy; 2Hungary; 3Germany

Urea Pesticides

Urea herbicides form, together with phenoxy derivatives and triazines, the most important agricultural herbicide group. The urea-derivatives are typical pre-emergence herbicides applied usually as aqueous emulsions to the surface of soil. Almost all of the urea compounds with good herbicidal action are trisubstituted ureas, containing a free iminohydrogen. According to the receptor theory, this...

Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides

Page 16 Pesticides and You Vol. 23, No. 2, 2003 Editor’s Note: On May 20, 2003, Canadian agriculture officials reported that a cow slaughtered in Alberta in January tested positive for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease. It is the country’s first case since 1993. Fearing the disease could spread to the U.S., the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a tempora...

Effects of Pesticides on Male Reproductive Functions

Exposure to pesticides could be one of the contributing cause to the falling sperm counts and rising levels of male infertility. Adverse effects of pesticides in the environment first received widespread attention in the 1960s. However, only recently it has been postulated that long term, low exposure of these chemicals are increasingly linked to human health effects such as immuno-suppression,...

Pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease