Sentence examples for A ddt from inspiring English sources

Ozal's body contained a rich cocktail of noxious substances, including dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, more commonly known as DDT, and a DDT by-product called DDE, which damages the liver, as well as cadmium and the radioactive elements americium and polonium.

Thirty-six male Wistar rats were divided into 6 groups of 6 rats each for: a control group, myo-inositol supplemented group, IP6-supplemyo-inositol supplemented group, DDT + myo-inositol–supplemented group, and a DDT + IP6–supplemented group.

MXC (1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)ethane) is a DDT derivative that was developed after the ban of DDT and it exhibits antiandrogenic and estrogenic activity.

We have previously demonstrated that expression of one member of this GST class, GSTe2, is up-regulated in a DDT resistant strain [ 10] and that a recombinant homodimer of GSTe2 is very efficient at metabolising DDT [ 28].

People would spray the room with a DDT gun as soon as he left.

"I liken my experience in these places to the time as a child when I ran behind a DDT truck," Mr. Gowin said.

Among other findings, the new study disclosed that children had higher levels of residues from secondhand smoke, some pesticides and plastics than adults, and that Mexican-Americans have three times the levels of a DDT residue of other Americans.

CYP12D1 was observed to be overexpressed in a DDT-resistant strain and induced by xenobiotics [ 42, 65].

The mounting evidence of a DDT-associated health burden should not be ignored, even if such a health burden does not nearly equate with malaria morbidity and mortality.

This led to characterization of eight insecticide resistance associated P450 genes (a DDT-resistant GST gene also included) and five ecdysone-synthesizing P450 genes (Table 2).

Previous microarray studies had identified five P450 loci (CYP4C27, CYP4H15, CYP6Z1, CYP6Z2 and CYP12F1) that showed significantly higher expression in a DDT-resistant strain (David et al. 2005).