Antonio Francisco Godinho

• Abstract

  Pesticides are used worldwide and widely in Brazil. The exposition of the man to these agents occurs mainly due to ambient contamination and occupationally. They provoke a variety of toxic effect in organism of mammals but the predominant effect of this chemical agents is of neurotoxicity. Between pesticides of last generation is included fipronil which being widely used in agriculture an…

  Memory behavior in Wistar rats exposed to the pesticide fipronil, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Widely used in the whole world with the function to keep healthful plantations and also the animal health, the pesticides provoke innumerable toxic effect in organisms of mammals; however, the predominant effect of this substances class is neurotoxicity. Fipronil is a pesticide of last generation that comes being widely used as much in agriculture how much in the control and prevention of…

  Study of the effect of the exposition to the Fipronil pesticide and the picrotoxina, on the behavior of memory in rats, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Fipronil, a chemical agent derived from phenyl pyrazole, is known to cause neurotoxicity having the gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) as the main target for the mechanism of its toxic action. It is known that toxic compounds present in maternal blood can cross the placenta and reach the bloodstream of the fetus and can cause physiological, anatomical, pathological, and biochemical changes a…

  Study of the effects of perinatal exposure to pesticide Fipronil on the development physical, sensory-motor, and behavioral of juvenile rat offspring, BP.IC

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