Exposure to pesticides and the associated human health effects

KH Kim, E Kabir, SA Jahan - Science of the total environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Pesticides are used widely to control weeds and insect infestation in agricultural fields and
various pests and disease carriers (eg, mosquitoes, ticks, rats, and mice) in houses, offices …

Human exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides and the evaluation of their potential toxicity: An overview

W Han, Y Tian, X Shen - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Neonicotinoid insecticides have become the fastest growing class of insecticides over the
past few decades. The insecticidal activity of neonicotinoids is attributed to their agonist …

Activation of persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes by 1T-MoS2 for the degradation of imidacloprid: Performance and mechanism

X Wang, Z Chen, Y He, X Yi, C Zhang, Q Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Imidacloprid (IMI) which has been widely detected in the natural water environment is
potentially genotoxic to humans and should be effectively eliminated. Persulfate-based …

Environmentally green synthesis and characterization of some novel bioactive pyrimidines with excellent bioefficacy and safety profile towards soil organisms

SAA Abdel-Raheem, MR Fouad, MA Gad… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The toxicity of a novel series of ten pyranothiazolopyrimidine derivatives (1–9a, b) against
the insect Aphis gossypii (Glover, 1887) has been determined. In addition, the safety profile …

Quercetin antagonizes imidacloprid-induced mitochondrial apoptosis through PTEN/PI3K/AKT in grass carp hepatocytes

Z Miao, Z Miao, S Wang, X Shi, S Xu - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Imidacloprid (IMI) is widely used in agriculture, and is toxic to non-target aquatic species.
Quercetin (Que) is a flavonoid abundant in fruits and vegetables that exhibits anti-oxidant …

Human exposure to chemical mixtures: challenges for the integration of toxicology with epidemiology data in risk assessment

AF Hernández, AM Tsatsakis - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2017 - Elsevier
Little is known about the potential adverse effects from longterm exposure to complex
mixtures at low doses, close to health-based reference values. Traditional chemical-specific …

Infantile internal and external exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides: a comparison of levels across various sources

H Zhang, Y Wang, H Zhu, S Lu, Y Wang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Little is known about exposure of infants to neonicotinoid insecticides (NEOs). In this study,
concentrations of six parent NEOs (p-NEOs) and N-desmethyl-acetamiprid (N-dm-ACE) …

New challenges in risk assessment of chemicals when simulating real exposure scenarios; simultaneous multi-chemicals' low dose exposure

AM Tsatsakis, AO Docea, C Tsitsimpikou - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2016 - Elsevier
The general population experiences uncontrolled multi-chemicals exposure from many
different sources at doses around or well below regulatory limits. Therefore, traditional …

An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 1: new molecules, metabolism, fate, and transport

C Giorio, A Safer, F Sánchez-Bayo, A Tapparo… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
With the exponential number of published data on neonicotinoids and fipronil during the last
decade, an updated review of literature has been conducted in three parts. The present part …

Imidacloprid affects human cells through mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress

F Wei, F Cheng, H Li, J You - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Given their relatively low persistence and mammalian toxicity, neonicotinoid pesticides have
been extensively used worldwide and are omnipresent in the environment. Recent studies …