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Chronic Exposure to the Herbicide, Atrazine, Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance

There is an apparent overlap between areas in the USA where the herbicide, atrazine (ATZ), is heavily used and obesity-prevalence maps of people with a BMI over 30. Given that herbicides act on photosystem II of the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts, which have a functional structure similar to mit...

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Autores principales: Lim, Soo, Ahn, Sun Young, Song, In Chan, Chung, Myung Hee, Jang, Hak Chul, Park, Kyong Soo, Lee, Ki-Up, Pak, Youngmi Kim, Lee, Hong Kyu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19365547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005186