Environmental ScienceChemistryMedicine

Organophosphorus pesticides: do they all have the same mechanism of toxicity?

C. Pope

1999.3.1JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH-PART B-CRITICAL REVIEWS

DOI: 10.1080/109374099281205

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It is concluded that all OP anticholinesterases potentially have a mechanism of toxicity in common, that is, phosphorylation of AChE causing accumulation of acetylcholine, overstimulation of cholinergic receptors, and consequent clinical signs of Cholinergic toxicity.

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POPE, C. Organophosphorus pesticides: Do they all have the same mechanism of toxicity? JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH-PART B-CRITICAL REVIEWS, 1999, 2 2: 161–81.