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- Chlordecone, better known in the United States under the brand name Kepone, is an organochlorine compound and a colourless solid. It is an obsolete insecticide...
- initially administered. Although chlordecone has not been used since the 1990s, the health risks remain. Chlordecone contamination occurs through contaminated...
- In enzymology, a chlordecone reductase (EC 1.1.1.225) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction chlordecone alcohol + NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
- protothecoides accelerated the detoxification of rats poisoned with chlordecone, a persistent insecticide, decreasing the half-life of the toxin from...
- than half of which come from residues of now-banned pesticides, such as chlordecone) were found in "79% of the watersheds analyzed in Grande-Terre and 84%...
- emitted in residential ba****ts, environmental contaminants such as chlordecone, cigarette smoke and ingestion of some types of foods such as alcohol...
- POPs: Chlordecone, a synthetic chlorinated organic compound, is primarily used as an agricultural pesticide, related to DDT and Mirex. Chlordecone is toxic...
- herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides such as benomyl, carbendazim, chlordecone, methoxychlor, methylmercury, fenarimol, and TCDD. The Florida panther...
- Xenoestrogen Endosulfan EDS <0.001–<0.01 <0.01 ? ? Xenoestrogen Kepone Chlordecone 0.0069–0.2 ? ? ? Xenoestrogen o,p'-DDT – 0.0073–0.4 ? ? ? Xenoestrogen...
- This enzyme catalyzes the bioreduction of chlordecone, a toxic organochlorine pesticide, to chlordecone alcohol in liver. This gene shares high sequence...