TY - CHAP AU - Olfa Tebourbi AU - Mohsen Sakly AU - Khémais Ben Rhouma ED - Margarita Stoytcheva Y1 - 2011-10-03 PY - 2011 T1 - Molecular Mechanisms of Pesticide Toxicity N2 - The present book is a collection of selected original research articles and reviews providing adequate and up-to-date information related to pesticides control, assessment, and toxicity. The first section covers a large spectrum of issues associated with the ecological, molecular, and biotechnological approaches to the understanding of the biological control, the mechanism of the biocontrol agents action, and the related effects. Second section provides recent information on biomarkers currently used to evaluate pesticide exposure, effects, and genetic susceptibility of a number of organisms. Some antioxidant enzymes and vitamins as biochemical markers for pesticide toxicity are examined. The inhibition of the cholinesterases as a specific biomarker for organophosphate and carbamate pesticides is commented, too. The third book section addresses to a variety of pesticides toxic effects and related issues including: the molecular mechanisms involved in pesticides-induced toxicity, fish histopathological, physiological, and DNA changes provoked by pesticides exposure, anticoagulant rodenticides mode of action, the potential of the cholinesterase inhibiting organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides, the effects of pesticides on bumblebee, spiders and scorpions, the metabolic fate of the pesticide-derived aromatic amines, etc. BT - Pesticides in the Modern World SP - Ch. 15 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/17952 DO - 10.5772/17952 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -