Anticholinesterase Pesticides: Metabolism, Neurotoxicity, and Epidemiology

Section I.

1. Introduction (Tetsuo Satoh, Ramesh C. Gupta).

Section II: Metabolism and Mechanisms.

2. ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS: BRAIN REGIONAL HETEROGENEITY (Haruo Kobayashi, Tadahiko Suzuki, Fumiaki Akahori and Tetsuo Satoh).

3. GENOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF ANTICHOLINESTERASE SENSITIVITIES (Jonathan E. Cohen, Gabrial Zimmermann, Alon Friedman and Hermona Soreq).

4. BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE: OVERVIEW, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION (Oksana Lockridge, Ellen G. Duysen and Patrick Masson).

5.CARBOXYLESTERASES:OVERVIEW, STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND POLYMORPHISM (Masakiyo Hosokawa and Tetsuo Satoh).

6. CARBOXYLESTERASES IN THE METABOLISM AND TOXICITY OF PESTICIDES (Colin J. Jackson, Juan Sanchez-Hernandez, Craig E. Wheelock and John G. Oakeshott).

7. THE METABOLIC ACTIVATION AND DETOXICATION OF ANTICHOLINESTERASE INSECTICIDES (Janice E. Chambers, Edward C. Meek and Matthew Ross).

8. PARAOXONASE 1: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND POLYMORPHISMS (Lucio G. Costa, Clement E. Furlong).

9. LONG-TERM NEUROTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ANTICHOLINESTERASES AFTER EITHER ACUTE AND CHRONIC EXPOSURE (Angelo Moretto, Manuela Tiramani and Claudio Colosio).

10. MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY OF NEUROPATHY TARGET ESTERASE (Yi-Jun Wu and Ping-An Chang).

11. DETOXICATION OF ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES (Miguel A. Sogorb and Eugennio Vilanova).

Section III: Toxicity and Biomonitoring.

12. INVOLVEMENT OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES TOXICITY (Dejan Milatovic, Ramesh C. Gupta, Snjezana Zaja-Milanovic, Gregory Barners and Michael Aschner).

13.CENTRAL MECHANISMS OF SEIZURES AND LETHALITY FOLLOWING ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDE EXPOSURE (Andrzej Dekundy and Rafal M. Kaminski).

14. APOPTOSIS INDUCED BY ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES (Qing Li).

15. GENE EXPRESSION (Shirin Pournourmahammadi and Mohammad Abdollahi).

16. ORGANOPHOSPHATES AS ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS (Shigeyuki Kitamura, Kazumi Sugihara, Nariaki Fujimoto and Takeshi Yamazaki).

17. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY OF ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES (John Flaskos and Magdalini Sachana).

18.TOXICITY OF ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES IN NEONATES AND CHILDREN (Diane Rohlman and Linda McCauley).

19. NEUROTOXICITY OF ORGANOPHOSPHATES AND CARBAMATES (Kiran Dip Gill, Govinder Flora and Swaran J.S. Flora).

20. BIOMONITORING OF PESTICIDES: PHARMACOKINETICS OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS AND CARBAMATE INSECTICIDES (Charles Timchalk).

21. NOVEL BIOMARKERS OF ORGANOPHOSPHATE EXPOSURE (Tetsuo Satoh, Salmaan H. Inayat-Hussain, Michihiro Kamishima and Jun Ueyama).

22. BIOMARKERS OF CARCINOGENESIS IN RELATION TO PESTICIDES POISONING (Manashi Bagchi, Shirley Zafra-Stone, Francis C. Lau and Debasis Bagchi).

23. ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES INTERACTION (Ramesh C. Gupta and Dejan Milatovic).

24. INTERACTION OF ANTICHOLINESTERASE PESTICIDES WITH METALS (Jitendra K. Malik, Avinash G. Telang, Ashok Kumar and Ramesh C. Gupta).

Section IV: Epidemiological studies.

25. GLOBAL IMPACT (Claudio Colosio, Francesca Vellere and Angelo Moretto).

26. CHILE (Floria Pancetti, Muriel Ramirez and Mauricio Castillo).

27. CHINA (Yueming Jiang).

28. EGYPT (Sameeh A. Mansour).

29. GREECE (Maria Stefanidou, S. Athanaselis, C. Spiliopoulou and C. Maravelias).

30. INDIA (Pawan K. Gupta).

31. IRAN (Mohammad Abdollahi).

32. ISRAEL (Yoram Finkelstein).

33. JAPAN (Takemi Yoshida and Yumiko Kuroki).

34. KOREA (Hyung-Keun RoBum Jin Oh, Mi-Jin Lee and Joo-Hyun Suh).

35.  MEXICO (Betzabet Quintanilla-Vega, Norma Pérez-Herrera and Elizabeth Rojas-Garcia).

36. SERBIA (Milan Jokanović, Biljana Antonijević and Slavica Vučinić).

37. SPAIN (Antonio F. Hernández, Tesifón Parrón, José L. Serrano and  Porfirio Marín, on  behalf of the ESPAPP group).

38. TAIWAN (Tzeng Jih Lin,Dong-Zeng Hung, Jin-Lian Tsai, Sheng-Chuan Hu and Jou-Fang Deng).

39. THAILAND (Winai Wananukul).

40. TURKEY (Ismet COK).

41. U.S.A. (Anna M. Fan).

Section V.

42. Regulatory Aspects (Kai Savolainen).

Section VI.

43. Medical Treatment of Poisoning with Organophosphates and Carbamates (Milan Jokanović).