Linking pesticide exposure and dementia: What is the evidence?

Toxicology

Volumn 307, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-11

  Zaganas, Ioannis ^a   Kapetanaki, Stefania ^a   Mastorodemos, Vassileios ^a   Kanavouras, Konstantinos ^a   Colosio, Claudio ^b   Wilks, Martin F ^c   Tsatsakis, Aristidis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Insecticides; Neurodegeneration; Neurotoxicity; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

FUMIGANT; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID; ROTENONE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROBEHAVIORAL EFFECT; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHONATES; PESTICIDES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880047579     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: 18793185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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