[SustainableTompkins] Neurotoxicity of pesticides... as if we didn't already know

[Thomas Shelley]

Dear Friends--Forwarded from the Occupational & Environmental Medicine 
mailing list, to which I am a subscriber.  This is   an abstract of a paper 
to be released in Jan. '08.  Enjoy....  and best eat organic when we can.   Tom

>From: "Lourdes Salvador" <salvadorlourdes at yahoo.com>
>To: Occ-Env-Med-L <tjs1 at cornell.edu>
>Subject: [occ-env-med-l] Neurotoxicity of pesticides: a brief review.
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:14:27 -1000
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><javascript:AL_get(this, 'jour', 'Front Biosci.');>Front Biosci. 2008 Jan 
>1;13:1240-9. <javascript:PopUpMenu2_Set(Menu17981626);>Links
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>Neurotoxicity of pesticides: a brief review.
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><http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Costa%20LG%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus>Costa 
>LG, 
><http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Giordano%20G%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus>Giordano 
>G, 
><http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Guizzetti%20M%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus>Guizzetti 
>M, 
><http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Vitalone%20A%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus>Vitalone 
>A.
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>Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of 
>Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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>Pesticides are substances widely used to control unwanted pests such as 
>insects, weeds, fungi and rodents. Most pesticides are not highly 
>selective, and are also toxic to nontarget species, including humans. A 
>number of pesticides can cause neurotoxicity. Insecticides, which kill 
>insects by targeting their nervous system, have neurotoxic effect in 
>mammals as well. This family of chemicals comprises the organophosphates, 
>the carbamates, the pyrethroids, the organochlorines, and other compounds. 
>Insecticides interfere with chemical neurotransmission or ion channels, 
>and usually cause reversible neurotoxic effects, that could nevertheless 
>be lethal. Some herbicides and fungicides have also been shown to possess 
>neurotoxic properties. The effects of pesticides on the nervous system may 
>be involved in their acute toxicity, as in case of most insecticides, or 
>may contribute to chronic neurodegenerative disorders, most notably 
>Parkinson's disease. This brief review highlights some of the main 
>neurotoxic pesticides, their effects, and mechanisms of action.
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>PMID: 17981626 [PubMed - in process]
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><http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17981626&itool=pubmed_DocSum>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17981626&itool=pubmed_DocSum


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