Paraquat in Podcasts
productParaquat is a highly toxic herbicide used in agriculture, linked to Parkinson's disease, and banned in many countries.
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Do the risks of paraquat exposure change if you're breathing it in?
You know, we were just talking about this plant in Mississippi that was emitting paraquat into the air.
And we showed in many ways, with many analyses, that Paraquat exposure at the workplace and homes was related to Parkinson's very strongly.
Yes, I'm a little biased here because I studied paraquat exposure in humans for so long.
So Paraquat is damaging these cells that we know are the cells that are damaged in Parkinson's disease, these dopamine neurons, right?
But in human mammalian cells and mammalian cells, we also know that Paraquat actually impairs something we call the respiratory chain of mitochondria.
And that's the kind of processes that actually happen with Paraquat.
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