Table of Contents

Toxicology of Pesticides: A Brief History.- Production and Use of Pesticides.- Role of Metabolism in Pesticide Selectivity and Toxicity.- Toxicology of Organophosphates and Carbamates.- Toxicology of Chlorophenoxy Herbicides and their Contaminants.- Reactive Oxygen Species and Cell Injury: Role in Pesticide Toxicity.- Interaction of Insecticides with the Nervous System.- The Role of Genetic Differences in Human Susceptibility to Pesticides.- The Reproductive Toxicology of Pesticides.- Carcinogenicity of Pesticides.- Dermal Toxicity of Pesticides.- Environmental Distribution and Fate of Pesticides. A Predictive Approach.- Ecotoxicology of Pesticides: The Laboratory and Field Evaluation of the Environmental Hazard Presented by New Pesticides.- Clinical Management of Pesticide Poisoning.- Assessment of Human Exposure to Pesticides.- Pesticides — Risk Assessment and Safe Use.- Role of Biotechnology in Pesticide Development: Bacillus Thuringiensis as an Example.- Pesticide Use Exposure and Regulation in Developed and Developing Countries.- Species Differences in Serum Paraoxonase Correlate with Sensitivity to Paraoxon Toxicity.- The Effects of Pyrethroid Insecticides on Synaptic Transmission in Slices of Guinea Pig Olfactory Cortex.- Critical Review of Pesticide-Related Alimentary Outbreaks.- Peripheral and Central Enzyme Inhibition by Fenthion, Fenitrothion and Desbromoleptophos.- Application of Structure-Activity Analysis for Estimation of Potential Effects of Pesticides on Environmental Biological Targets.- Decrements in Retrograde Axonal Transport Precede Onset of Nerve Fiber Degeneration in Organophosphate Neuropathy.- The Lungs as a Target for the Toxicity of Some Organophosphorus Compounds.- Behavioral and Biochemical Effects of Early Postnatal Parathion Exposure inthe Rat.- Effects of Lindane on Central Nervous System: Behavioural Studies.

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