PESTICIDES
PESTICIDES
• Single or mixture of substances
• Used from ancient to modern times
• Arsenic – herbicide, fumigant
• Copper-fungicide, utensils
• Nicotine – insecticide
• Gerhard Schrader- Father of organophophorous insecticide
• Toxicity – mostly non-target species
• Dermal, inhalation and oral route
Regulatory
• EPA
• Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act – Pesticides for use
• Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act – allowable residues in human and
animal food
Insecticides
• All neurotoxicants
• Nontarget species
• Organophosphorous
• Carbamates
• Pyrethroids
• Organochlorine
• Other and Old New
Insecticides
• Rotenoids
• Nicotine
• Neonicotinoids
• Formamidines
• Avermectins
• Phenylpyrozoles
• Diamides
• Bacillus Thuringiensis
• Insect Repellents
• DEET
• Picaridin
Organophosphorous Compounds
• Phosphorous double bonded to oxygen (P=S, phosphorothio)
• Sensitive to hydrolysis
• Target esterases & Glutathione S-transferases
• A –esterases (paraoxanase)
• B-esterases (butylcholine)
• Acetyl choline esterase (Hallmark of OP toxicity)
• Toxicity of ACE inhibition
• Overstimulation of cholinergenic receptors (Symptoms, increased sweating, saliva,
brochonconstriction, secretion, miosis, increased gastronintestional motility, diarrhea,
tremors, muscular twitching, and various central nervous system)
• Reactivation slow depends on dimethoxy>diethoxy>>diisopropoxy
Organophosphorous Toxicity
• Treatment
• Atropine – dosage important
• Oxime (2-PAM) – none or harmful effect
• Diazepam to reduce anxiety
• Aging is a factor
• Biochemical measurements
• RBC AChE and Plasma BuChE
• P-nitrophenol in urine for parathion or methyl parathion
• 3,5,6 trichloropyridinol –chlorpyrifos or methyl chlorpyrifos
• DMP, DEP, DMTP and DETP
• Toxicity
• Intermediate Syndrome – weakness in muscles
• Organophosphate induced delayed polyneuropathy
• Tingling of hands and feet, progressive muscle weekness, sensory loss, distal sensory motor axonopathy
• Classic example – Ginger Jake Paralysis. Tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate (TOCP)
• Caused by NEUROPATHY TARGET ESTERASE
• Depending on Aging, treatment can promote or prevent the damage
Long term – Developmental toxicity in Children
Carbamates
• Derive from carbamic acid
• Carbaryl – low tox and Aldicarb – high tox
• Inhibit AceE and ButE, rapidly reversible
• Symptoms, miosis, urination, diarrhea, salivation, muscle fasciculation
• Direct inhibitors of AceE, do not require bioactivation
• Atropine treatment
• Oximes – aggravate the toxicity
• Somecase peripheral neuropathy
• Aging do not require
• Before OP toxicity –carbamate protection
• After OP toxicity - promotion
Pyrethroids
• Extracts of chrisanthenum cinerariaefolium
• Natural one decomposes under light
• Acid moiety, ester bond and alcohol moiety
• Modify voltage gated sodium channels
• Exits in cis and trans form; cis more toxic than trans
• Eg: LD50 trans-resmethirin 8000mg/kg cis 100 mg/kg
• Type I and Type II ( Cyano group)
• Biotransformation
• Hydrolysis of ester – CarE (heptatic and plasma)
• Oxidation of alcohol moiety – CytP450
• Type II less sensitive to hydrolysis because of cyano group
• Type II- bioactivation by CyP450
• Piperonyl butoxide used as synergist; (inhibits CyP450)
Type II Pyrethroid
• Behavioral arousal, aggressive
sparing and tremor
• T-Syndrome
• Disruption of voltage gated
sodium channel
• Slow the activation( opening)
• Stable hyperexcitable state
Type I Pyrethroid
• Clonic Seizures and choreoathetosis
• CS- Syndrome
• Presence of cyano group
• Prolongs channel opening
• Eventually depolarization
• GABA gated chloride channels (ivermectin
and phenobarbital prevents)
• Calcium ATPase and Ca channels, stimulate
PKC
• Deltamethrin impregnated beds do not pose
problems in children
• Occupational paresthesia (tingling)
• Topical Vit E
• Toxic to fish but not birds
Organochlorine Compounds
• DDT and analogs, cyclodienes and hexachlorocyclohexanes
• World over, malaria control
• Acute – neurotoxic (moderate than OP)
• Chronic – Liver and reproductive system
• Isomers (p,p’-DDT strongest)
• Stored in adipose; slow biotransformation; excreted in bile, urine and milk
• Acute effects - motor unrest, spontaneous muscle movement, abnormal susceptible to fear and other
stimuli. fine and course tremors and tonic-clonic convulsions
• Hyperesthesia and paresthesia
• Mechanism: Sodium channel, Na+ K+ and Ca+ ATPase
• Phenytoin and calcium gluconate – in animals
• Diazepam and phenobarbital –in humans
• Potent inducer of P450cyp2b and CYP3A.
• Hepatocarcinogenic in mice and rats; lung tumors and adenoma
• Possible human carcinogen
• Current alternative dimethoxy pp DDT – Similar effects
• Picrotoxin toxin binding site
Hexachlorocyclohexanes and
Cyclodienes
• Neurotoxic
• Lindane –gamma isomer of BHC
• Banned Agri but in shampoo
• Convulsions
• GABA chloride channel
• Phenobarbital and diazepam
Mirex and chlordecone
• Fire ants and leaf eating insects
• Hopewell, VA incident
• Tremors
• Inhibition of Na, K and Mg
ATPases and catecholamine
intake
• Cholestryamine
Rotenoids
• East Asian Derris Plant
• High content rotenone
• Toxic to fish; fish capture
• Blocks NADH-ubiquinone reductase
or complex 1
• Increase cardiac rates and
respiration depression
• Role in Parkinson Disease Models
• Protein inclusions and lewy bodies
– rotenone model of PD
Nicotine
• Alkaloid in tobacco plants
• Activates NAChreceptors
• Nausea, vomiting, muscle
weakness and green tobacco
sickness
Neonicotinoids
• Nitromethylene, nitroimine and
cyanoimine
• Targeted towards insect
NAChReceptors
Formamidines
• Structural similar to
norepinephrine
• Activates Octopamine dependent
adenylate cyclase
• (OctP receptors same as
adrengenic receptors)
• Probable human carcinogen
• Bradycardia and hypotension
• Yohimbine and adrenoceptor
antagonists
Avermectins
• Fungal product
• Macrocyclic lactones
• Veterinary (antihelminitic and
antiparistic)
• Humans (intestinal worms, river
blindness and lymphatic
filariasis)
• Activate GABA chloride
• Interact with -PGlycoprotein
Phenylpyrazole
• Block GABA-Cl
• Glutamate-activated chloride
Diamides
• Activation of Ryanodine
receptors (Ca Receptors)
• Muscle contraction
Bacillus Thuringiensis
• Soil microorganism – produce
insecticidal protein
• Bt spores contain crystals of Cry
and Cyt proteins
• Insect ingest, protein toxin in
midgut and K+influx; high PH,
osmotic lysis
Insect Repellants
DEET
• Biotransform CYP450 and excreted
in urine/ No strong evidence
• Lesions in male rats (alpha-2-
globulin)
• Similar to nikethamide (convulsant)
• Inconclusive BBB transport
• Recommended
• Children: 10% Adults 30%
Picaridin
• Biotransform hydroxylation and
glucuronidation, and excreted in
urine
• Olfactory receptors
Herbicides
• Capable of killing or injuring the plants
• Types of herbicides
• Preplanting
• Preemergent
• Postemergent
• Contact
• Translocated
• Relatively Low Acute toxicity except paraquat (contact dermatitis)
• Five major class
• Chlorophenoxy
• Bipyridyl
• Chloroacetanilides
• Triazines
• Phosphomethyl amino acids
Chlorophenoxy Compounds
• 2,4-D; 2,4,5 T; and MCPA (different forms of phenoxy acetic acids)
• Mimics plant hormone auxin
• Produce uncontrollable growth in target plants
• Contaminations, TCDD, PCDD
• 50: 50 mixture of 2,4-D; 2,4,5 T – Agent Orange (Vietnam War)
• Low to acute toxicity; Dogs are more sensitive
• Becomes acidic –vomit, moth burning, hypotension, coma
• Alkalization of urine and intraven bicarbonate administration
• Possible mechanism 1) cell damage 2) Ac-CoA disturbance 3)uncoupling oxidative
phosphorylation
• Possible Demyleination and degeneration of CNS
• Associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and soft tissue sarcoma/ no strong evidence
• Classified as Group D agent (non classifiable as human carcinogen)
Bipyridyl Compounds
• Paraquat (most concern)
• Skin sensitizer
• Accumulates in lung and kidney
• High concentration in type II and I /Clara cells
• Toxicity: Redox cycling; superoxide generation and
lipid peroxidation
• Stages of lung destruction; destructive phase;
proliferative phase and intensive fibrosis
• Dexamethasone with PG induction and sodium
salicylate in animals
• Blue stentching pigment added
• Etilogical in Parkinson Disease [Structure similar to
MPP+ and MPTP- Similar to rotenone]
• Some evidence for neurodegeneration to
dopaminergic neurons [dose level not concern to
humans]
DiQuat
No Skin sensitizer; no lung accumulation
Kidneys and eyes- free radical mechanism
Ocular toxicity
Chloroacetanilides
• Alachlor, Acetochlor, metolachlor and butachlor
• Inhibit synthesis of lipids, alcohols, fatty acids and terpenoids
• Alachlor – ocular toxicity in Long-Evan Rats – progressive uveal degeneration
syndrome
• Not observed in mice, dogs or any other rats.
• Produce tumors
• Basis of weight of evidence – non genotoxic
• Probable human carcinogens ( Group B2)
• May be species specific
• Forms quinone metabolites – radical producers, glutathione scavenger
• Current Recommendation for alachlor- likely at high doses but not likely at low
doses
Triazines
• Atrazine, simazine, propazine
• Inhibition of photosynthesis
• Possible clastogenic of atrazine-
• Mammary carcinomas in Sprague-dawley rats
• Possible endocrine disruption
• Atrazine and Simazine (Group 3 by IARC; not classficable to humans)
• Atrazine – possible feminization of frogs- endrocine disruption; EPA
revisiting
Phosphonomethyl amino acids
Glyphosphate
• Inhbition of 5-enol
pyruvylshikimate- 3-phosphate
• Present only in plants
• Group E by EPA( non carcinogen
to humans)
• Surfactant POEA –possible
damage
Glufosinate
• Inhibit glutamine synthetase
• Increase ammonia and
glutamine deficiency
• dosage at this level not concern
to humans
• Role of surfactants in toxicity
Fungicides
• Low acute toxicity to mammals
• Oncogenic risk
• Banned
• Methylmercury – Iraq- grains
• HCB – Turkey- black sore, blistering skin, hepatomegaly and
immunosupression
Captan and Folpet
• Contains, chlorine, carbon and sulfur
• Thiophosgene, a common metabolite
• Duodenal tumors in mice
• Probable human carcinogens (Category B2) and recently changed to “not
likely to be a human carcinogen when used according to label directions”
• Resembles thalidoamide
Dithiocarbamates
• Maneb (Mn); Ziram and Zineb (Zn); and mancozeb (Mn and Zn)
• Thiram without any metal moiety
• Ethylenethiourea (ETU) common metabolite
• Thyroid tumors – inhibition of T4 and T3- thyroid hypertrophy
• Liver tumors in mice; developmental and teratogenicity in rats
• Hind limb paralysis (Carbondisulfide – Ethylene bisthiocyanate-sulfide EBIS)
Maneb – associated with Parkinson
Maneb with paraquat –potentiation –MPTP –dopaminergic
DTC resembles disulfuram – known to increase acetaldehyde levels
Chlorothalonil
• Highly toxic in intraperitoneal and inhalation route
• Eye lesions in rabbit and dermal irritation
Benzimidazoles
• Inhibit microtubule assembly – chromosomal aberrations
• Contact dermatitis
• Liver, testes, bone marrow and gastrointestional tract
• Affect male reproductive system in animals
Inorganic and organometal
• Copper Sulfate
• Bordeaux mixture (copper sulfate and calcium hydroxide)
• Tributyltin
• Antifouling agent
• Adverse effect to oyster –banned in 2008
• Triphenyltin
• Reproductive toxicity and endocrine disruption
Organic mercury removed
Rotenticides
• Effective when
• In small dose
• No bait shyness
• Non-suspious
• Species-specific
Fluoroacetic acid
• Alias (Compound 1080 or Sodium Fluoroacetate)
• Inhibits krebs cycle and aconitase (Fluorocitrate)
• Potent chelator of calcium ions
• CNS (agitation, convulsion and coma) and Heart toxicity (ventricular
tachycardia, hypotension and fibrillation)
• Antidote: glycerol monoacetate (monoacetin)
• Procainamide (cardiac arrhythmia) and barbiturates (Seizure)
Thiourea
• ANTU
• Toxicity to lung
• Edema in subepithelial spaces of aleveolar wall
• Binds to lung macromolecules
• Human poisonings
• Chloralase and ANTU
• Impurity - B-naphthylamine – bladder cancer
Anticoagulants
• Spoiled sweet clover silage – hemorrhagic disorder –
bishydroxycoumarin (dicoumarol)
• Warfarin
• Inhibition of Vitamin K epoxide reductase
• Antagonize – Vitamin K- prevent clotting factor synthesis (Factor, II, VII, IX
AND X)
• Rats became resistant and second generation anticoagulants
• Superwarfarins Brodifacuom and difenacoum
• Indane 1, 3-diones derivaties (dophacinone and chlorophacinone)
• Increased blood half-life
Norbormide
• Selective to rats
• Vasoconstrition
• Zinc Phosphide
• Phosphine gas
• Necrosis of GI and Cyto C
oxidase inhibition
• Aluminium phosphide
• GI, CV and electrolytic imbalance
Thallium Sulfate and Arsenic
alopecia (hairloss)
Strychnine
seeds of nux-vomica
Antagonize glycine (inhibitory
aminoacid)
potent convulsant
Red Squill (Sea Onion)
CV and CNS
Pyriminil –withdrawn- Complex I
INHIBITION - diabetogenic
Fumigants
• Methyl Bromide
• Concern for ozone depletion
• Long lasting neuropsychiatric disorders and neurotoxicity
• Acute: respiratory, GI and neurologic
• Conjugation with GSH
• Positive in several genotoxic test
• Forestomach carcinoma and pituatry adenoma
• IARC group 3 (not classificable as human carcinogen)
• Chloropicrin added for pungent smell
1,3 Dichloropropene
• Irritant
• Redness and necrosis of skin
• Mercapturic acid – major metabolite
• Epichlorohydrin – stabilizing agent
Metam-Sodium
• MITC is the active product and CS2
• Bladder, kidney and liver
• Allergic dermatitis
• Irritant, buring of eyes, nose and throat
• Alternative of methyl bromide
Sulfur Compounds
• Elemental Sulfur – ancient pesticide – grapes and tomato
• Too acidic to certain crops
• Humans (dermatitis) and cerebrocortical necrosis (cattles) –H2S
• Sulfurdioxide (grapes)
• Fumigant, antimicrobial, high water soluble and food additive
• Sulfuryl fluoride
• Structural and storage
• Neurotoxicity and microvacuolation in various brains
No longer in US
• CS2 – neurotoxic
• CCl4 – hepatotoxicant
• 1,2,dibromo-3-chloropropoane – male reproductive toxicant
• Ethylene dibromide – carcinogen

Pesticides

  • 1.
  • 2.
    PESTICIDES • Single ormixture of substances • Used from ancient to modern times • Arsenic – herbicide, fumigant • Copper-fungicide, utensils • Nicotine – insecticide • Gerhard Schrader- Father of organophophorous insecticide • Toxicity – mostly non-target species • Dermal, inhalation and oral route
  • 3.
    Regulatory • EPA • FederalInsecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act – Pesticides for use • Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act – allowable residues in human and animal food
  • 4.
    Insecticides • All neurotoxicants •Nontarget species • Organophosphorous • Carbamates • Pyrethroids • Organochlorine • Other and Old New Insecticides • Rotenoids • Nicotine • Neonicotinoids • Formamidines • Avermectins • Phenylpyrozoles • Diamides • Bacillus Thuringiensis • Insect Repellents • DEET • Picaridin
  • 5.
    Organophosphorous Compounds • Phosphorousdouble bonded to oxygen (P=S, phosphorothio) • Sensitive to hydrolysis • Target esterases & Glutathione S-transferases • A –esterases (paraoxanase) • B-esterases (butylcholine) • Acetyl choline esterase (Hallmark of OP toxicity) • Toxicity of ACE inhibition • Overstimulation of cholinergenic receptors (Symptoms, increased sweating, saliva, brochonconstriction, secretion, miosis, increased gastronintestional motility, diarrhea, tremors, muscular twitching, and various central nervous system) • Reactivation slow depends on dimethoxy>diethoxy>>diisopropoxy
  • 6.
    Organophosphorous Toxicity • Treatment •Atropine – dosage important • Oxime (2-PAM) – none or harmful effect • Diazepam to reduce anxiety • Aging is a factor • Biochemical measurements • RBC AChE and Plasma BuChE • P-nitrophenol in urine for parathion or methyl parathion • 3,5,6 trichloropyridinol –chlorpyrifos or methyl chlorpyrifos • DMP, DEP, DMTP and DETP • Toxicity • Intermediate Syndrome – weakness in muscles • Organophosphate induced delayed polyneuropathy • Tingling of hands and feet, progressive muscle weekness, sensory loss, distal sensory motor axonopathy • Classic example – Ginger Jake Paralysis. Tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate (TOCP) • Caused by NEUROPATHY TARGET ESTERASE • Depending on Aging, treatment can promote or prevent the damage Long term – Developmental toxicity in Children
  • 7.
    Carbamates • Derive fromcarbamic acid • Carbaryl – low tox and Aldicarb – high tox • Inhibit AceE and ButE, rapidly reversible • Symptoms, miosis, urination, diarrhea, salivation, muscle fasciculation • Direct inhibitors of AceE, do not require bioactivation • Atropine treatment • Oximes – aggravate the toxicity • Somecase peripheral neuropathy • Aging do not require • Before OP toxicity –carbamate protection • After OP toxicity - promotion
  • 8.
    Pyrethroids • Extracts ofchrisanthenum cinerariaefolium • Natural one decomposes under light • Acid moiety, ester bond and alcohol moiety • Modify voltage gated sodium channels • Exits in cis and trans form; cis more toxic than trans • Eg: LD50 trans-resmethirin 8000mg/kg cis 100 mg/kg • Type I and Type II ( Cyano group) • Biotransformation • Hydrolysis of ester – CarE (heptatic and plasma) • Oxidation of alcohol moiety – CytP450 • Type II less sensitive to hydrolysis because of cyano group • Type II- bioactivation by CyP450 • Piperonyl butoxide used as synergist; (inhibits CyP450)
  • 9.
    Type II Pyrethroid •Behavioral arousal, aggressive sparing and tremor • T-Syndrome • Disruption of voltage gated sodium channel • Slow the activation( opening) • Stable hyperexcitable state Type I Pyrethroid • Clonic Seizures and choreoathetosis • CS- Syndrome • Presence of cyano group • Prolongs channel opening • Eventually depolarization • GABA gated chloride channels (ivermectin and phenobarbital prevents) • Calcium ATPase and Ca channels, stimulate PKC • Deltamethrin impregnated beds do not pose problems in children • Occupational paresthesia (tingling) • Topical Vit E • Toxic to fish but not birds
  • 10.
    Organochlorine Compounds • DDTand analogs, cyclodienes and hexachlorocyclohexanes • World over, malaria control • Acute – neurotoxic (moderate than OP) • Chronic – Liver and reproductive system • Isomers (p,p’-DDT strongest) • Stored in adipose; slow biotransformation; excreted in bile, urine and milk • Acute effects - motor unrest, spontaneous muscle movement, abnormal susceptible to fear and other stimuli. fine and course tremors and tonic-clonic convulsions • Hyperesthesia and paresthesia • Mechanism: Sodium channel, Na+ K+ and Ca+ ATPase • Phenytoin and calcium gluconate – in animals • Diazepam and phenobarbital –in humans • Potent inducer of P450cyp2b and CYP3A. • Hepatocarcinogenic in mice and rats; lung tumors and adenoma • Possible human carcinogen • Current alternative dimethoxy pp DDT – Similar effects • Picrotoxin toxin binding site
  • 11.
    Hexachlorocyclohexanes and Cyclodienes • Neurotoxic •Lindane –gamma isomer of BHC • Banned Agri but in shampoo • Convulsions • GABA chloride channel • Phenobarbital and diazepam Mirex and chlordecone • Fire ants and leaf eating insects • Hopewell, VA incident • Tremors • Inhibition of Na, K and Mg ATPases and catecholamine intake • Cholestryamine
  • 12.
    Rotenoids • East AsianDerris Plant • High content rotenone • Toxic to fish; fish capture • Blocks NADH-ubiquinone reductase or complex 1 • Increase cardiac rates and respiration depression • Role in Parkinson Disease Models • Protein inclusions and lewy bodies – rotenone model of PD Nicotine • Alkaloid in tobacco plants • Activates NAChreceptors • Nausea, vomiting, muscle weakness and green tobacco sickness
  • 13.
    Neonicotinoids • Nitromethylene, nitroimineand cyanoimine • Targeted towards insect NAChReceptors Formamidines • Structural similar to norepinephrine • Activates Octopamine dependent adenylate cyclase • (OctP receptors same as adrengenic receptors) • Probable human carcinogen • Bradycardia and hypotension • Yohimbine and adrenoceptor antagonists
  • 14.
    Avermectins • Fungal product •Macrocyclic lactones • Veterinary (antihelminitic and antiparistic) • Humans (intestinal worms, river blindness and lymphatic filariasis) • Activate GABA chloride • Interact with -PGlycoprotein Phenylpyrazole • Block GABA-Cl • Glutamate-activated chloride
  • 15.
    Diamides • Activation ofRyanodine receptors (Ca Receptors) • Muscle contraction Bacillus Thuringiensis • Soil microorganism – produce insecticidal protein • Bt spores contain crystals of Cry and Cyt proteins • Insect ingest, protein toxin in midgut and K+influx; high PH, osmotic lysis
  • 16.
    Insect Repellants DEET • BiotransformCYP450 and excreted in urine/ No strong evidence • Lesions in male rats (alpha-2- globulin) • Similar to nikethamide (convulsant) • Inconclusive BBB transport • Recommended • Children: 10% Adults 30% Picaridin • Biotransform hydroxylation and glucuronidation, and excreted in urine • Olfactory receptors
  • 17.
    Herbicides • Capable ofkilling or injuring the plants • Types of herbicides • Preplanting • Preemergent • Postemergent • Contact • Translocated • Relatively Low Acute toxicity except paraquat (contact dermatitis) • Five major class • Chlorophenoxy • Bipyridyl • Chloroacetanilides • Triazines • Phosphomethyl amino acids
  • 18.
    Chlorophenoxy Compounds • 2,4-D;2,4,5 T; and MCPA (different forms of phenoxy acetic acids) • Mimics plant hormone auxin • Produce uncontrollable growth in target plants • Contaminations, TCDD, PCDD • 50: 50 mixture of 2,4-D; 2,4,5 T – Agent Orange (Vietnam War) • Low to acute toxicity; Dogs are more sensitive • Becomes acidic –vomit, moth burning, hypotension, coma • Alkalization of urine and intraven bicarbonate administration • Possible mechanism 1) cell damage 2) Ac-CoA disturbance 3)uncoupling oxidative phosphorylation • Possible Demyleination and degeneration of CNS • Associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and soft tissue sarcoma/ no strong evidence • Classified as Group D agent (non classifiable as human carcinogen)
  • 19.
    Bipyridyl Compounds • Paraquat(most concern) • Skin sensitizer • Accumulates in lung and kidney • High concentration in type II and I /Clara cells • Toxicity: Redox cycling; superoxide generation and lipid peroxidation • Stages of lung destruction; destructive phase; proliferative phase and intensive fibrosis • Dexamethasone with PG induction and sodium salicylate in animals • Blue stentching pigment added • Etilogical in Parkinson Disease [Structure similar to MPP+ and MPTP- Similar to rotenone] • Some evidence for neurodegeneration to dopaminergic neurons [dose level not concern to humans] DiQuat No Skin sensitizer; no lung accumulation Kidneys and eyes- free radical mechanism Ocular toxicity
  • 20.
    Chloroacetanilides • Alachlor, Acetochlor,metolachlor and butachlor • Inhibit synthesis of lipids, alcohols, fatty acids and terpenoids • Alachlor – ocular toxicity in Long-Evan Rats – progressive uveal degeneration syndrome • Not observed in mice, dogs or any other rats. • Produce tumors • Basis of weight of evidence – non genotoxic • Probable human carcinogens ( Group B2) • May be species specific • Forms quinone metabolites – radical producers, glutathione scavenger • Current Recommendation for alachlor- likely at high doses but not likely at low doses
  • 21.
    Triazines • Atrazine, simazine,propazine • Inhibition of photosynthesis • Possible clastogenic of atrazine- • Mammary carcinomas in Sprague-dawley rats • Possible endocrine disruption • Atrazine and Simazine (Group 3 by IARC; not classficable to humans) • Atrazine – possible feminization of frogs- endrocine disruption; EPA revisiting
  • 22.
    Phosphonomethyl amino acids Glyphosphate •Inhbition of 5-enol pyruvylshikimate- 3-phosphate • Present only in plants • Group E by EPA( non carcinogen to humans) • Surfactant POEA –possible damage Glufosinate • Inhibit glutamine synthetase • Increase ammonia and glutamine deficiency • dosage at this level not concern to humans • Role of surfactants in toxicity
  • 23.
    Fungicides • Low acutetoxicity to mammals • Oncogenic risk • Banned • Methylmercury – Iraq- grains • HCB – Turkey- black sore, blistering skin, hepatomegaly and immunosupression
  • 24.
    Captan and Folpet •Contains, chlorine, carbon and sulfur • Thiophosgene, a common metabolite • Duodenal tumors in mice • Probable human carcinogens (Category B2) and recently changed to “not likely to be a human carcinogen when used according to label directions” • Resembles thalidoamide
  • 25.
    Dithiocarbamates • Maneb (Mn);Ziram and Zineb (Zn); and mancozeb (Mn and Zn) • Thiram without any metal moiety • Ethylenethiourea (ETU) common metabolite • Thyroid tumors – inhibition of T4 and T3- thyroid hypertrophy • Liver tumors in mice; developmental and teratogenicity in rats • Hind limb paralysis (Carbondisulfide – Ethylene bisthiocyanate-sulfide EBIS) Maneb – associated with Parkinson Maneb with paraquat –potentiation –MPTP –dopaminergic DTC resembles disulfuram – known to increase acetaldehyde levels
  • 26.
    Chlorothalonil • Highly toxicin intraperitoneal and inhalation route • Eye lesions in rabbit and dermal irritation Benzimidazoles • Inhibit microtubule assembly – chromosomal aberrations • Contact dermatitis • Liver, testes, bone marrow and gastrointestional tract • Affect male reproductive system in animals
  • 27.
    Inorganic and organometal •Copper Sulfate • Bordeaux mixture (copper sulfate and calcium hydroxide) • Tributyltin • Antifouling agent • Adverse effect to oyster –banned in 2008 • Triphenyltin • Reproductive toxicity and endocrine disruption Organic mercury removed
  • 28.
    Rotenticides • Effective when •In small dose • No bait shyness • Non-suspious • Species-specific
  • 29.
    Fluoroacetic acid • Alias(Compound 1080 or Sodium Fluoroacetate) • Inhibits krebs cycle and aconitase (Fluorocitrate) • Potent chelator of calcium ions • CNS (agitation, convulsion and coma) and Heart toxicity (ventricular tachycardia, hypotension and fibrillation) • Antidote: glycerol monoacetate (monoacetin) • Procainamide (cardiac arrhythmia) and barbiturates (Seizure)
  • 30.
    Thiourea • ANTU • Toxicityto lung • Edema in subepithelial spaces of aleveolar wall • Binds to lung macromolecules • Human poisonings • Chloralase and ANTU • Impurity - B-naphthylamine – bladder cancer
  • 31.
    Anticoagulants • Spoiled sweetclover silage – hemorrhagic disorder – bishydroxycoumarin (dicoumarol) • Warfarin • Inhibition of Vitamin K epoxide reductase • Antagonize – Vitamin K- prevent clotting factor synthesis (Factor, II, VII, IX AND X) • Rats became resistant and second generation anticoagulants • Superwarfarins Brodifacuom and difenacoum • Indane 1, 3-diones derivaties (dophacinone and chlorophacinone) • Increased blood half-life
  • 32.
    Norbormide • Selective torats • Vasoconstrition • Zinc Phosphide • Phosphine gas • Necrosis of GI and Cyto C oxidase inhibition • Aluminium phosphide • GI, CV and electrolytic imbalance Thallium Sulfate and Arsenic alopecia (hairloss) Strychnine seeds of nux-vomica Antagonize glycine (inhibitory aminoacid) potent convulsant Red Squill (Sea Onion) CV and CNS Pyriminil –withdrawn- Complex I INHIBITION - diabetogenic
  • 33.
    Fumigants • Methyl Bromide •Concern for ozone depletion • Long lasting neuropsychiatric disorders and neurotoxicity • Acute: respiratory, GI and neurologic • Conjugation with GSH • Positive in several genotoxic test • Forestomach carcinoma and pituatry adenoma • IARC group 3 (not classificable as human carcinogen) • Chloropicrin added for pungent smell
  • 34.
    1,3 Dichloropropene • Irritant •Redness and necrosis of skin • Mercapturic acid – major metabolite • Epichlorohydrin – stabilizing agent
  • 35.
    Metam-Sodium • MITC isthe active product and CS2 • Bladder, kidney and liver • Allergic dermatitis • Irritant, buring of eyes, nose and throat • Alternative of methyl bromide
  • 36.
    Sulfur Compounds • ElementalSulfur – ancient pesticide – grapes and tomato • Too acidic to certain crops • Humans (dermatitis) and cerebrocortical necrosis (cattles) –H2S • Sulfurdioxide (grapes) • Fumigant, antimicrobial, high water soluble and food additive • Sulfuryl fluoride • Structural and storage • Neurotoxicity and microvacuolation in various brains
  • 37.
    No longer inUS • CS2 – neurotoxic • CCl4 – hepatotoxicant • 1,2,dibromo-3-chloropropoane – male reproductive toxicant • Ethylene dibromide – carcinogen