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PESTICIDES. Alexander V. Lyubimov, M.D., Ph.D. Director Toxicology Research Laboratory Department of Pharmacology University of Illinois at Chicago. Pesticide is a substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest (US EPA). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PESTICIDES
Alexander V. Lyubimov, M.D., Ph.D.Director
Toxicology Research LaboratoryDepartment of Pharmacology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Pesticide is a substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest (US EPA).
Pest includes harmful, destructive, or troublesome animals, plants, or microorganisms.
APPLICATORS ONLY?
Are there ANY other populations
(besides occupationally exposed) who can be poisoned by
PESTICIDES?
HOW WE CAN SURVIVE IT?
NO-EFFECT-LEVEL (NOEL) in animals
is used to determine:Residue Tolerance Limits
maximum safe levels of pesticide in food
PESTICIDES CLASSIFICATION1.Insecticides
1.1 Organophosphates (most are actually thiophosphates)1.2 Carbamates1.3 Organochlorines1.4 Botanical compounds
2.Herbicides2.1 Chlorophenoxy compounds2.2 Bipyridyl compounds2.3 Miscellaneous compounds
3. Rodenticides* Continued
* Continued
4. Fungicides
4.1 HCB
4.2 Organomercurials
4.3 PCP
4.4 Phthalimides
4.5 Dithiocarbamates (EBDC)
* Continued
* Continued
5. Fumigants
5.1 Phosphine
5.2 Ethylene Dibromide / Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
BIPYRIDYL DERIVATIVEParaquat
LD50 ≈ 22 – 262 mg/kg, moderately toxic
Target Organ : Lung in all species
Mechanism of action :
Free Radical superoxide anion, O2-
Lipid peroxidation
Treatment :
Gastric lavage
mineral adsorbents
hemoperfusion
No hyperbaric oxygen!
FUNGICIDES
Low acute toxicity
LD50 ~ 800 – 10,000 mg/kg.
Cytotoxic
Mutagenic
(mechanism of action to fungus)
Teratogenic
Carcinogenic ~ 90% in animal models.
HCB
Immunosuppression
Hepatic and thyroid tumors (animals)
Teratogen
(transplacental and milk acquisition)
DITHIOCARBAMATES (EBDC)
Low toxicity
(Biotransformation Ethylene Thyourea (ETU)
in animals is well known to produce:Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity
Teratogenicity, Embryotoxicity
FUMIGANTS
Phosphine
(ALP PH3)
Ethylene Dibromide / Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
produce:
gastric carcinomas
DBCP – sterility in humans