Environmental and human health issues related to long-term contamination by chlordecone in the French Caribbean
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2020 at "Environmental Science and Pollution Research"
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-09531-4
Abstract: Chlordecone is an organochlorine insecticide extensively used in the French Caribbean (FC), Guadeloupe and Martinique, from 1972 to 1993. This pesticide, which was applied on banana plantations to control banana weevil, undergoes an extremely slow… read more here.
Keywords: chlordecone; long term; contamination chlordecone; health ... See more keywords
Bioaccumulation, distribution and elimination of chlordecone in the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii: Field and laboratory studies.
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2017 at "Chemosphere"
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.07.099
Abstract: Chlordecone is a persistent organochlorine pesticide that has been widely used in Guadeloupe (French West Indies) to control the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus from 1972 to 1993. A few years after its introduction, widespread contamination… read more here.
Keywords: chlordecone; field; rosenbergii; distribution elimination ... See more keywords
Proteomic response of Macrobrachium rosenbergii hepatopancreas exposed to chlordecone: Identification of endocrine disruption biomarkers?
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2017 at "Ecotoxicology and environmental safety"
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.03.043
Abstract: The present work is the first study investigating the impacts of chlordecone, an organochlorine insecticide, on the proteome of the decapod crustacean Macrobrachium rosenbergii, by gel-free proteomic analysis. The hepatopancreas protein expression variations were analysed… read more here.
Keywords: chlordecone; macrobrachium rosenbergii; proteomic response; endocrine ... See more keywords