Pesticides in the urban environment: A potential threat that knocks at the door

IM Meftaul, K Venkateswarlu, R Dharmarajan… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pesticides play a pivotal role in controlling pests and disease infestations not only in urban
agriculture but also in non-agricultural settings. Several pesticides like herbicides …

Chiral toxicology: it's the same thing… only different

SW Smith - Toxicological sciences, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Chiral substances possess a unique architecture such that, despite sharing identical
molecular formulas, atom-to-atom linkages, and bonding distances, they cannot be …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats

GS Okin - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In the US, there are more than 163 million dogs and cats that consume, as a significant
portion of their diet, animal products and therefore potentially constitute a considerable …

Determination of four heterocyclic insecticides by ionic liquid dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction in water samples

Y Liu, E Zhao, W Zhu, H Gao, Z Zhou - Journal of Chromatography A, 2009 - Elsevier
A novel microextraction method termed ionic liquid dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction
(IL-DLLME) combining high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection …

Enantioselectivity in environmental risk assessment of modern chiral pesticides

J Ye, M Zhao, J Liu, W Liu - Environmental Pollution, 2010 - Elsevier
Chiral pesticides comprise a new and important class of environmental pollutants
nowadays. With the development of industry, more and more chiral pesticides will be …

Toxicity of the insecticide fipronil and its degradates to benthic macroinvertebrates of urban streams

DP Weston, MJ Lydy - Environmental Science & Technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Fipronil is a phenylpyrazole insecticide with increasing urban use. Sixteen urban waterways
and municipal wastewater were sampled for fipronil, its environmental degradates, and …

[HTML][HTML] Chiral pharmaceuticals: environment sources, potential human health impacts, remediation technologies and future perspective

Y Zhou, S Wu, H Zhou, H Huang, J Zhao, Y Deng… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chiral pharmaceuticals (CPs), including non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), β-
blockers and some herbicide and pesticides, are widely used in aquaculture, clinical …

Protective effects of rosuvastatin and vitamin E against fipronil-mediated oxidative damage and apoptosis in rat liver and kidney

MM Abdel-Daim, A Abdeen - Food and chemical toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
Fipronil (FPN) is a phenylpyrazole insecticide that is extensively used in agriculture and
veterinary applications. However, FPN is also a potent environmental toxicant to animals …

Occurrence of fipronil and its biologically active derivatives in urban residential runoff

J Gan, S Bondarenko, L Oki, D Haver… - Environmental science & …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Insecticides are commonly used around homes for controlling insects such as ants, termites,
and spiders. Such uses have been linked to pesticide contamination and toxicity in urban …

Susceptibility of Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus Say, and Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say to 19 Pesticides with Different Modes of Action

JW Pridgeon, RM Pereira, JJ Becnel… - Journal of Medical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
To access the relative potency of pesticides to control adult mosquitoes, 19 pesticides with
various modes of action were evaluated against Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus …