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Psychogenic and Neurogenic Abnormalities after Perinatal Insecticide Exposure

A Critical Review

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Handbook of Behavioral Teratology

Abstract

The purposeful application of chemical agents to control or eradicate organisms deemed undesirable by a society (“pests”) is a practice rooted in antiquity. Implicit in such practice is the assumption that the effect of the applied pesticide will be injurious to the undesirable organism but will not affect nontarget species. Historically, the earliest chemicals used to destroy insect pests included sulfur, inorganic salts, and naturally occurring products such as nicotine from the tobacco plant, rotenone from the powdered roots of Derris elliptica and D. mallaccensis (Southeast Asia) or Lonchocarpus utilis and L. urucu (South America), and pyrethrum extracted from Chrysanthemum cinerareaefolium (Kenya) (Hayes, 1982). Since the 1800s, however, many agents having insecticidal activity have been synthesized for widespread application. Today, the pesticides, and in particular the insecticides, are perhaps the most ubiquitous of the potentially harmful chemicals encountered in the environment.

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Mactutus, C.F., Tilson, H.A. (1986). Psychogenic and Neurogenic Abnormalities after Perinatal Insecticide Exposure. In: Riley, E.P., Vorhees, C.V. (eds) Handbook of Behavioral Teratology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2189-7_15

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