Organochlorines are widespread pollutants in humans. Concern about adverse reproductive effects of these compounds arises from accidental exposure of humans and experimental studies. Recently, this issue has been addressed by a number of studies of exposed populations and hospital-based case-referent studies. These studies indicate that high concentrations of persistent organochlorines may adve...

In an agricultural country like India, pesticides are a major aquatic chemical pollutant. The broad class of and biological agents that damage or kill pests. There mainly three groups synthetic organic pesticides-organochlorines, organophosphates carbamates. Fishes the vulnerable biotic components as they sequester effects to higher organisms including man through food chain. this paper attempt...

A 19 year young male who consumed organophosphorous compound and required assisted mechanical ventilation for two weeks, later on developed delayed neuropathy is described.

Several organochlorines identified as "hormone mimics" were proposed as possible risk factors for breast cancer. We conducted a case-control study to assess breast cancer risk and disease aggressiveness in relation to plasma concentrations of several organochlorine compounds. Plasma lipid concentrations of 11 chlorinated pesticides and 14 polychlorinated biphenyl congeners were measured in 315 ...

BACKGROUND Although accumulating evidence suggests that exposure to organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may contribute to the development of prostate cancer, few investigations have used biological samples to classify exposure to specific organochlorines. To our knowledge, this is the first prospective study to investigate the association between blood levels of organ...

Background Widespread use of organophosphorous compounds (OPs) in agriculture and as nerve agents as well as a lack of clinically effective antidotes initiated the synthesis of new pyridinium bis-aldoximes (K-compounds) with high potency in reactivating acetylcholinesterase irreversibly inhibited by OPs [1,2]. We aimed to optimize an HPLC method sensitive enough to determine K-compounds from di...

The hypothesis that different populations of narwhals in the West Greenland area exist has been tested by different biomarkers (metal and organochlorine concentrations, stable isotopes and DNA). Samples of muscle, liver, kidney, blubber and skin tissues of narwhals from West Greenland have been analysed for heavy metals, organochlorines, stable isotopes and DNA. The obtained results of metal co...