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Adulthood dietary exposure to a common pesticide leads to an obese-like phenotype and a diabetic profile in apoE3 mice.
Environmental research - 1 Oct 2015
Peris-Sampedro Fiona, Cabré Maria, Basaure Pia, Reverte Ingrid, Domingo José L, Teresa Colomina Maria
Abstract excerpt
Increasing evidence links the widespread exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides to the global epidemics of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Our recent data highlighted gene×environment interactions: mice expressing the human apolipoprotein E3 (apoE3) isoform were more prone to develop obesity than those expressing apoE2 or apoE4 upon dietary challenge with chlorpyrifos (CPF), the most used OP worldwide. Thus, we...
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