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ReviewEnvironment international2017

Developmental neurotoxicity of succeeding generations of insecticides.

Yael Abreu-Villaça, Edward D Levin

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Review in Environment international, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. A Review of Biomonitoring for Atrazine and Atrazine Metabolites Using Blood, Urine, and Sweat-Based Assays.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  11. Carbaryl use and incident cancer in the Agricultural Health Study: an updated analysis.International journal of hygiene and environmental health · 2025
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  12. Neurodevelopmental Impact of Pesticides: A Silent Threat.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2025
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  19. Approaches to determine pesticides in marine bivalves.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yael Abreu-VillaçaDepartamento de Ciências Fisiologicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), RJ, Brazil.
Edward D LevinDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: edlevin@duke.edu.

Funding

Zebrafish as a Detector of Organophosphate ExposureP42ES010356 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI AMY H HERRING · 2000 to 2026
$56.2M
NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES010356
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insecticides are by design toxic. They must be toxic to effectively kill target species of insects. Unfortunately, they also have off-target toxic effects that can harm other species, including humans. Developmental neurotoxicity is one of the most prominent off-target toxic risks of insecticides. Over the past seven decades several classes of insecticides have been developed, each with their own mechanisms of effect and toxic side effects. This review covers the developmental neurotoxicity of the succeeding generations of insecticides including organochlorines, organophosphates, pyrethroids, carbamates and neonicotinoids. The goal of new insecticide development is to more effectively kill target species with fewer toxic side effects on non-target species. From the experience with the developmental neurotoxicity caused by the generations of insecticides developed in the past advice is offered how to proceed with future insecticide development to decrease neurotoxic risk.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansInsecticidesNervous SystemNeurotoxinsOrganophosphatesPyrethrinsInsecticidesNeurotoxinsOrganophosphatesPyrethrinsDevelopmentNeonicotinoidsNeurotoxicityOrganochlorinesOrganophosphatesPyrethroids: carbamates

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PMID27908457
PMCPMC5285268

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