Occupational and environmental exposure to pesticides and cytokine pathways in chronic diseases (Review)

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1012-1020

  Gangemi, Silvia ^a   Gofita, Eliza ^b   Costa, Chiara ^a   Teodoro, Michele ^a   Briguglio, Giusi ^a   Nikitovic, Dragana ^c   Tzanakakis, George ^c   Tsatsakis, Aristides M ^c   Wilks, Martin F ^d   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^c   Fenga, Concettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chronic diseases; Immunotoxicity; Occupational exposure; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHLORPYRIFOS; CYTOKINE; DITHIOCARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FUNGICIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INSECTICIDE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 25; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 35; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84986888095     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2016.2728     Document Type: Review

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