Pesticides

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Comparison of Pesticide Risk Beliefs between Farmers and Farmworkers: Implications for Risk Communication and Education. 
  • A dried blood spot method to evaluate cholinesterase activity in young children. 
  • Accumulation of environmental contaminants in wood duck (Aix sponsa) eggs, with emphasis on polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide. 
  • Certification of SRM 1589a PCBs, pesticides, PBDEs, and dioxins/furans in human serum. 
  • Chlorpyrifos affects phenotypic outcomes in a model of mammalian neurodevelopment: critical stages targeting differentiation in PC12 cells. 
  • Cholinergic systems in brain development and disruption by neurotoxicants: nicotine, environmental tobacco smoke, organophosphates. 
  • Comparative Assessment of Pesticide Exposures in Domestic Dogs and Their Owners Using Silicone Passive Samplers and Biomonitoring. 
  • Consumption of dairy products and the risk of breast cancer: a review of the literature. 
  • Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. 
  • DNA methylation alterations in response to pesticide exposure in vitro. 
  • Detection of endocrine disrupting chemicals in samples of second trimester human amniotic fluid. 
  • Developmental exposure of zebrafish to neonicotinoid pesticides: Long-term effects on neurobehavioral function. 
  • Editor's Highlight: Base Excision Repair Variants and Pesticide Exposure Increase Parkinson's Disease Risk. 
  • Evaluating the zebrafish embryo toxicity test for pesticide hazard screening. 
  • Evaluation of candidate genes for cholinesterase activity in farmworkers exposed to organophosphorus pesticides: association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in BCHE. 
  • High Pesticide Exposure Events and Dream-Enacting Behaviors Among US Farmers. 
  • Hormone receptor activities of complex mixtures of known and suspect chemicals in personal silicone wristband samplers worn in office buildings. 
  • Hypospadias and halogenated organic pollutant levels in maternal mid-pregnancy serum samples. 
  • Macro-activity patterns of farmworker and non-farmworker children living in an agricultural community. 
  • Measuring cholinesterase activity in human saliva. 
  • Mechanistic Insights from Discrete Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Pesticide-Nanoparticle Interactions. 
  • Military service, deployments, and exposures in relation to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis etiology. 
  • Mitochondria as a target of organophosphate and carbamate pesticides: Revisiting common mechanisms of action with new approach methodologies. 
  • Mitochondrial response and resilience to anthropogenic chemicals during embryonic development. 
  • Neonatal organophosphorus pesticide exposure alters the developmental trajectory of cell-signaling cascades controlling metabolism: differential effects of diazinon and parathion. 
  • Occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of incident AD: the Cache County study. 
  • Occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern in mussels (Mytilus spp.) along the California coast and the influence of land use, storm water discharge, and treated wastewater effluent. 
  • Pesticide Use and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Agricultural Health Study. 
  • Pesticide exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Pesticide exposure and risk of Parkinson's disease: a family-based case-control study. 
  • Pesticides: Perceived Threat and Protective Behaviors Among Latino Farmworkers. 
  • Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides and Preschool ADHD in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. 
  • Prenatal drug exposures sensitize noradrenergic circuits to subsequent disruption by chlorpyrifos. 
  • Prenatal exposure to organophosphorus pesticides and childhood neurodevelopmental phenotypes. 
  • Prenatal organophosphorus pesticide exposure and executive function in preschool-aged children in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). 
  • Quantitative, video-based histochemistry to measure regional effects of anticholinesterase pesticides in rat brain. 
  • Regulatory and research issues related to cholinesterase inhibition. 
  • Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas. 
  • Screening of potential reproductive toxicants by use of porcine granulosa cell cultures. 
  • Silver impairs neurodevelopment: studies in PC12 cells. 
  • The Association Between Toxic Exposures and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans of the Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  • The association of prenatal phthalates, organophosphorous pesticides, and organophosphate esters with early child language ability in Norway. 
  • The toxicology of climate change: environmental contaminants in a warming world. 
  • Time course of cholinesterase inhibition in adult rats treated acutely with carbaryl, carbofuran, formetanate, methomyl, methiocarb, oxamyl or propoxur. 
  • Zebrafish developmental screening of the ToxCast™ Phase I chemical library. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Sexton, Steven E., Mark and Lynne Florian Associate Professor of Public Policy, Economics