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Cancer Risk and Nullity of Glutathione-S-Transferase Mu and Theta 1 in Occupational Pesticide Workers.
Current pharmaceutical biotechnology - 1 Jan 2022
Usman Muhammad Bello, Priya Kanu, Pandit Soumya, Gupta Piyush Kumar
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Occupational exposure to pesticides has been associated with adverse health conditions, including genotoxicity and cancer. Nullity of GSTT1/GSTM1 increases the susceptibility of pesticide workers to these adverse health effects due to lack of efficient detoxification process created by the absence of these key xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes. However, this assertion does not seem to maintain its stance at all the...
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