Obesity and metabolic comorbidities: environmental diseases?

C Lubrano, G Genovesi, P Specchia… - Oxidative medicine …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity and metabolic comorbidities represent increasing health problems. Endocrine
disrupting compounds (EDCs) are exogenous agents that change endocrine function and …

Risk assessment of occupational pesticide exposure: Use of endpoints and surrogates

SC Machado, I Martins - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Pesticides occupy a special position among various chemical agents that are present in the
environment because of to their toxicity, wide use, mainly in mixtures, and lack of action …

[HTML][HTML] Increased levels of genotoxic damage in a Bolivian agricultural population exposed to mixtures of pesticides

JB Cuenca, N Tirado, J Barral, I Ali, M Levi… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
During the past decades, farmers in low to middle-income countries have increased their
use of pesticides, and thereby the risk of being exposed to potentially genotoxic chemicals …

The Comet Assay as a Tool in Human Biomonitoring Studies of Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Chemicals—A Systematic Scoping Review

C Ladeira, P Møller, L Giovannelli, G Gajski, A Haveric… - Toxics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Biomonitoring of human populations exposed to chemical substances that can act as
potential mutagens or carcinogens, may enable the detection of damage and early disease …

Genetic polymorphisms of GSTM1, GSTT1 and GSTP1 and susceptibility to DNA damage in workers occupationally exposed to organophosphate pesticides

S Singh, V Kumar, P Singh, S Thakur… - … /Genetic Toxicology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
GSTM1, T1 and P1 are important enzymes of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs), involved in
the metabolism of many endogenous and exogenous compounds. Individual genetic …

Influence of CYP2C9, GSTM1, GSTT1 and NAT2 genetic polymorphisms on DNA damage in workers occupationally exposed to organophosphate pesticides

S Singh, V Kumar, P Singh, BD Banerjee… - … /Genetic Toxicology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Previous studies have revealed that organophosphate pesticides (OPs) are primarily
metabolized by xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes (XMEs). Very few studies have explored …

Farmers exposed to pesticides have almost five times more DNA damage: a meta-analysis study

FA Nascimento, DM Silva, TMA Pedroso… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
We carried out a meta-analytical review of possible DNA damage resulting from
occupational exposure to pesticides in farmers in the scientific literature. After the search …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic polymorphisms and pesticide-induced DNA damage: a review

MB Usman, K Priya, S Pandit… - The Open …, 2021 - openbiotechnologyjournal.com
The drastic increase in pesticide applications makes human exposure inevitable either
through environment or occupation. Pesticide toxicity causes many adverse health effects …

Genotoxic and clastogenic activity of saponins extracted from Nauclea bark as assessed by the micronucleus and the comet assays in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells

W Liu, C Di Giorgio, M Lamidi, R Elias, E Ollivier… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Bark extracts of Nauclea latifolia, Nauclea
diderrichii, Nauclea pobeguinii and Nauclea vandergutchii are used in traditional medicine …

The role of PON1 and CYP2D6 genes in susceptibility to organophosphorus chronic intoxication in Egyptian patients

AMT Khattab, AA Zayed, AI Ahmed, AG AbdelAal… - Neurotoxicology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) activity toward organophosphorus (OP)
compounds shows inter-individual variations, rendering the identification of individuals' …