Article
The pyriproxyfen metabolite 4'OH- pyriproxyfen disrupts thyroid hormone signaling and enhances Musashi-1 levels in neuroprogenitors.
2018-06-27
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological and experimental studies have raised questions as to whether the insecticide pyriproxyfen (PPF) could be implicated in the increased incidence of microcephaly associated with ZIKA infection during pregnancy. This pesticide is documented as a thyroid hormone (TH) disrupting chemical. We investigated whether environmentally relevant amounts of its main metabolite, 4'-OH-pyriproxyfen (4'-OH-PPF), modi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 782c5e0a-d442-571e-866b-89ea2e34e64f
- DOI
- 10.1101/352088
