S. Obernikhin

Lessons from In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Pesticide DDT: Mechanisms of Chromaffin Cell Vulnerability and Altered Catecholamine Homeostasis

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) remains one of the most emblematic and enduring persistent organic pollutants of the 20th century. Although prohibited for agricultural use in most industrialized nations during the 1970s–1980s on the grounds of its persistence, bioaccumulation, and carcinogenicity, DDT was reintro...