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Imaging in Medicine

Biomonitoring Pesticides

 Biomonitoring is used to evaluate human exposure to pesticides which involves measuring the amount of pesticides, pesticide metabolites, or altered biological structures or functions in biological specimens or tissues. These measurements in biological media, mentioned as biomarkers, reflect human exposure to pesticides through all relevant routes, and may therefore be used to monitor aggregate and cumulative exposures. Biomonitoring is a common and useful tool for assessing human exposure to pesticides.  For the past several decades, methods are developed to measure a variety of pesticides in human urine or blood to evaluate exposures. Many of those methods have employed analytical techniques like chromatography and mass spectrometry to accurately measure urinary metabolites or blood body burdens of several classes of pesticides. The pesticides assessed include the banned organochlorine pesticides, the more modern organophosphorus, carbamate, and pyrethroid insecticides along with a various herbicides including phenoxyacetic acids and triazines. Biomonitoring can help in exposure assessment of specific chemicals, characterisation of exposure pathways and also potential risks. Biomarkers can detect the exposure, the effect, or they will reveal susceptibility. Biomonitoring could even be interpreted at group or individual level. commonest media are urine and blood. The methods utilized within the world of human biomonitoring are almost like those utilized in occupational medicine biomonitoring. in this respect, individuals' exposures to chemicals are determined and thus the biological effects caused by chemical substances are measured.  

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