Chlordecone
... can accumulate in the liver and the distribution in the human body is regulated by binding of the pollutant or its ... Chlordecone is cited amongst a handful of other noxious substances as the driver for Gerald Ford's half-hearted approval in ... Chlordecone, better known in the United States under the brand name Kepone, is an organochlorine compound and a colourless ... Chlordecone is a known persistent organic pollutant (POP) that was banned globally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent ...
Chlordecone reductase
In enzymology, a chlordecone reductase (EC 1.1.1.225) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction chlordecone alcohol + ... NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } chlordecone + NADPH + H+ Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are chlordecone ... The systematic name of this enzyme class is chlordecone-alcohol:NADP+ 2-oxidoreductase. This enzyme is also called CDR. As of ... Molowa DT, Shayne AG, Guzelian PS (1986). "Purification and characterization of chlordecone reductase from human liver". J. ...
Parc naturel régional de la Martinique
The park has a number of banana plantations within its boundaries, and as a result was affected by the Chlordecone scandal. The ... "ZERO CHLORDECONE : Une application numérique pour les produits labellisés et disponibles en grande surface". 10 October 2019. ... However, use of pesticides, in particular chlordecone, has caused extensive pollution. A study published in 2015 by 15 ... and the results tend to show that some biodiversity has returned to plantations after the end of chlordecone use. This is ...
Mirex
Slow oxidation produces chlordecone ("Kepone"), a related insecticide that is also banned in most of the western world, but ... Mirex and chlordecone: health effects, toxicokinetics, human exposure, and environmental fate". Toxicology and Industrial ...
Chlorella
Pore, R. Scott (1984). "Detoxification of Chlordecone Poisoned Rats with Chlorella and Chlorella Derived Sporopollenin". Drug ... Cholerella protothecoides accelerated the detoxification of rats poisoned with chlordecone, a persistent insecticide, ... and subsequently eliminated the bound chlordecone with the feces. A 2002 study showed that Chlorella cell walls contain ...
3α-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
This enzyme catalyzes the bioreduction of chlordecone, a toxic organochlorine pesticide, to chlordecone alcohol in liver. This ... "Entrez Gene: AKR1C4 aldo-keto reductase family 1, member C4 (chlordecone reductase; 3-alpha hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, type ... and chlordecone reductase (CHDR) genes in chromosome 10 by the polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in situ hybridization ... "Isolation and characterization of cloned cDNAs encoding human liver chlordecone reductase". Biochemistry. 29 (4): 1080-7. doi: ...
Persistent organic pollutant
Chlordecone is toxic to aquatic organisms, and classified as a possible human carcinogen. Many countries have banned ... Additions to the initial 2001 Stockholm Convention list are the following POPs: Chlordecone, a synthetic chlorinated organic ... chlordecone sale and use, or intend to phase out stockpiles and wastes. α-Hexachlorocyclohexane (α-HCH) and β- ...
Martinique
Although chlordecone has not been used since the 1990s, the health risks remain. Chlordecone contamination occurs through ... "Chlordecone Scandal." The lack of information transmitted to the population concerning the danger of chlordecone between 1993 ... Chlordecone, a pesticide used in the cultivation of bananas before a ban in 1993, has been found to have contaminated farming ... The chlordecone molecule has physical and chemical characteristics that allow it to remain for several centuries in soil, river ...
Cetaceans of the Caribbean
Assessment of chlordecone contamination of oceanic cetaceans in the eastern Caribbean". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 137: 56-60. ...
AKR1C1
... and chlordecone reductase (CHDR) genes in chromosome 10 by the polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in situ hybridization ... cloning of two human liver 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid/dihydrodiol dehydrogenase isoenzymes that are identical with chlordecone ...
Florida panther
... chlordecone, methoxychlor, methylmercury, fenarimol, and TCDD. The Florida panther has low genetic diversity due to a variety ...
AKR1C3
... and chlordecone reductase (CHDR) genes in chromosome 10 by the polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in situ hybridization ...
Tineola bisselliella
... chlordecone and mirex at 0.06%, and dieldrin at 0.05%. Imidazole (a non-chlorinated aromatic heterocyclic) at 1% also gave ...
Guadeloupe
... such as chlordecone) were found in "79% of the watersheds analyzed in Grande-Terre and 84% in Basse-Terre." A report by the ...
List of insecticides
... cartap carvacrol cevadine chloramine phosphorus chlorantraniliprole chlorbenzuron chlorbicyclen chlordane chlordecone ...
List of MeSH codes (D02)
... chlordecone MeSH D02.455.526.439.202 - chlorobenzenes MeSH D02.455.526.439.202.190 - dicofol MeSH D02.455.526.439.202.200 - ...
IARC group 2B
... multi-walled MWCNT-7 Carbon tetrachloride Catechol Chlordane Chlordecone (Kepone) Chlorendic acid para-Chloroaniline 3-Chloro-4 ...
Geography of Guadeloupe
... such as chlordecone) were found in "79% of the watersheds analyzed in Grande-Terre and 84% in Basse-Terre." A report by the ...
Endocrine disruptor
... chlordecone) and DDT and its derivatives, the herbicide atrazine, and the fungicide vinclozolin), the contraceptive 17-alpha ...
Tran To Nga
... the collective zero chlordecone zero poison, MEP Marie Toussaint, jurist Valérie Cabanes, etc. Following the developments ( ...
Index of molecular biology articles
... chlordecone reductase - chloroplast protein-transporting ATPase - cholestanetriol 26-monooxygenase - cholesterol 7alpha- ...