Chemical Pesticides: Mode of Action and Toxicology

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Pesticides and opinion
1.2.1 The *y in the soup
1.2.2 Low-tech food production
1.2.3 Conclusion
1.3 A great market
1.3.1 The number of chemicals used as pesticides
1.3.2 Amounts of pesticides produced
1.3.3 Marketing
1.3.4 Dirty dozens
1.4 Nomenclature, definitions, and terminology
1.4.1 Toxicology, ecotoxicology, and environmental toxicology
1.4.2 Pesticides, biocides, common names, chemical names,
and trade names
1.4.3 Chemical structures are versatile
Helpful reading
Biochemistry and cell biology
General toxicology
Insect biochemistry, plant physiology, and neurophysiology
Pesticides
Side effects of pesticides
Chapter 2 Why is a toxicant poisonous?
2.1 Seven routes to death
2.1.1 Enzyme inhibitors
2.1.2 Disturbance of the chemical signal systems
2.1.3 Toxicants that generate very reactive molecules that
destroy cellular components
2.1.4 Weak organic bases or acids that degrade the pH
gradients across membranes
2.1.5 Toxicants that dissolve in lipophilic membranes and
disturb their physical structure
2.1.6 Toxicants that disturb the electrolytic or osmotic balance
or the pH

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