Background: In rural areas of developing countries, children of agricultural workers have a high potential for exposure to organophosphorus (OP) pesticides. This puts them at an increased risk of damage to neurobehavioural performance, cognitive and psychomotor dysfunction. The main objective of this study was to assess the neurological risk of exposure to organophosphate pesticides in the chil...

Lymphomas are classified as Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (HL NHL) NHL being further sub-divided into B, T and Null cell categories on the basis of WHO classification. With a few exceptions worldwide, B-NHL are more common, accounting approximately 80-85% of all cases of NHL compared to T-NHL, which accounts for about 10-15% of all NHL cases. The incidence of NHL has shown a steady incr...

Toxicity caused by chemical mixtures has emerged as a significant challenge for toxicologists and risk assessors. Information on individual chemicals' modes of action is an important part of the hazard identification step. In this study, an automatic text mining-based tool was employed as a method to identify the carcinogenic modes of action of pesticides frequently found in fruit on the Swedis...

Pesticides have been specifically associated with the t(14;18)(q32;q21) chromosomal translocation. To investigate whether the association between pesticides and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) differs for molecular subtypes of NHL defined by t(14; 18) status, we obtained 175 tumor blocks from case subjects in a population-based case-control study conducted in Nebraska between 1983 and 1986. ...

aims: in regard to increasing greenhouse area in iran followed by increased use of pesticides and contaminated crops, this study aimed to determine the frequency and types of consumed pesticides in kashan region, iran, greenhouses. instrument & methods: in this descriptive study in 2011-2012, samples was entered by census method. at the first step, a list of greenhouses was obtained from agricu...

Pesticides including organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs), and nitrogen-containing herbicides are types of well-known environmental contaminants. Pesticides are generally categorized based upon their persistence in the environment. Organochlorine pesticides are considered persistent pesticides. These pesticides have long environmental half-lives and tend to bioac...

BACKGROUND Growing evidence suggests that pesticide use may contribute to respiratory symptoms. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the association of currently used pesticides with allergic and non-allergic wheeze among male farmers. METHODS Using the 2005-2010 interview data of the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective study of farmers in North Carolina and Iowa, we evaluated the association betwee...