In low-income countries, the use of some organochlorine pesticides is still common in order to increase food production. Monitoring the chemical exposure is an important step in risk-reducing strategies. This is the first study to report concentrations of organochlorines in breast milk of women from Bangladesh where farming is the main income source. Organochlorines such as p,p'-DDT, o,p'-DDT, ...

BACKGROUND Maternal exposures to organochlorines prior to pregnancy are considered a risk to neonatal welfare, specifically in relation to neurocognitive functions. There is growing interest in the evaluation of maternal blood testing as a marker for fetal exposure as well as the variable geographic distribution of these priority chemicals. METHODS Three hundred and twenty-three women in the ...

Soldiers are exposed to multiple stress conditions adverse psychological, physico-chemical and environmental conditions during warfare which can result in significant physical and chemical alterations in the biological system. The effects of carbamate (pyridostigmine bromide, PB) pretreatment prior to physiological stress and organophosphorous compound, DFP (diisopropylfluorophosphate) exposure...

Metabolomic studies generate large amounts of data, whose complexity increases if they are derived from in vivo experiments. As a result, analysis methods highly used metabolomics, such as Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA), can have particular difficulties with this type data. However, there is evidence that indicates Support Vector Machines (SVMs) better deal complex On the ...

The concentration of organochlorines (OCs) such as organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls were measured in adipose tissue collected from 14 male hippopotami at Mfuwe in the southern part of the Luangwa National Park, Zambia. The samples contained low levels of OCs, and the concentrations of OCs were comparable to or lower than reported for wild herbivores studied in other parts...