DDT

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adult exposure to insecticides causes persistent behavioral and neurochemical alterations in zebrafish. 
  • Alanine to valine substitutions in the pore helix IIIP1 and linker-helix IIIL45 confer cockroach sodium channel resistance to DDT and pyrethroids. 
  • Bottlenose dolphins as indicators of persistent organic pollutants in the western North Atlantic Ocean and northern Gulf of Mexico. 
  • Changes in lipid profiles of liver microsomes of rats following intratracheal administration of DDT or endosulfan. 
  • Comparative field evaluation of combinations of long-lasting insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying, relative to either method alone, for malaria prevention in an area where the main vector is Anopheles arabiensis. 
  • Distinct roles of the DmNav and DSC1 channels in the action of DDT and pyrethroids. 
  • Effect of intratracheal administration of DDT and endosulfan on cytochrome P-450 and glutathione-s-transferase in lung and liver of rats. 
  • Effect of intratracheally administered DDT and endosulfan on pulmonary and hepatic respiratory cytochromes. 
  • Effects of DDT on eggshell quality and calcium adenosine triphosphatase. 
  • Elucidating the links between endocrine disruptors and neurodevelopment. 
  • Elucidation of pyrethroid and DDT receptor sites in the voltage-gated sodium channel. 
  • Evaluation of chemicals with endocrine modulating activity in a yeast-based steroid hormone receptor gene transcription assay. 
  • Evidence for Dual Binding Sites for 1,1,1-Trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) in Insect Sodium Channels. 
  • Histogenesis of dieldrin and DDT-induced hepatocellular carcinoma in Balb/c mice. 
  • In vitro inhibition of microsomal calcium atpase from eggshell gland of mallard duck. 
  • Induction of phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis via CDPcholine pathway in lung and liver of rats following intratracheal administration of DDT and endosulfan. 
  • Inhibition of androgen receptor-dependent transcriptional activity by DDT isomers and methoxychlor in HepG2 human hepatoma cells. 
  • Kicking a Dying Dog: DDT and the Demise of Malaria in the American South, 1942-1952 
  • Lactational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene and infant growth: an analysis of the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Babies Study. 
  • Lactational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene and infant neurodevelopment: an analysis of the pregnancy, infection, and nutrition babies study. 
  • Lipid peroxidation in lung and liver of rats given DDT and endosulfan intratracheally. 
  • Lung subcellular fractions and surfactant lipid metabolism of rats exposed with DDT or endosulfan intratracheally. 
  • Molecular evidence of sequential evolution of DDT- and pyrethroid-resistant sodium channel in Aedes aegypti. 
  • Neurobehavioral anomalies in zebrafish after sequential exposures to DDT and chlorpyrifos in adulthood: Do multiple exposures interact? 
  • Parasites and Progress: Ethical Decision-Making and the Santee-Cooper Malaria Study, 1944-49 
  • Post-mortem stability of blubber DLCs, PCB and tDDT in by-caught harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). 
  • The effect of neonatal exposure to DES and o,p'-DDT on pituitary responsiveness to GnRH in adult castrated rats. 
  • Use of human cumulus granulosa cells for in vitro screening of reproductive toxicants. 
  • delta-Aminolevulinic acid synthetase and heme oxygenase activity in lung and liver of rats given DDT and endosulfan intratracheally. 
  • kdr-Type resistance in insects with special reference to the German cockroach, Blattella germanica. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nowacek, Douglas, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Distinguished Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative