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Dong C, Zhou J, Zuo W, Li Z, Li J, Jiao B. Enantioselective determination of phenthoate enantiomers in plant-origin matrices using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Biomed Chromatogr 2021; 36:e5229. [PMID: 34414593 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.5229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 08/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Phenthoate is a chiral organophosphate pesticide with a pair of enantiomers which differ in toxicity, behavior and insecticidal activity, and its acute toxicity on human health owing to the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase highlights the need for enantioselective detection of enantiomers. Therefore, this study aimed to establish a simple rapid method for separation and detection of phenthoate enantiomers in fruits, vegetables and grains. The enantiomers were separated using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the first time. Rapid chiral separation (within 9 min) of the target compound was achieved on a chiral OJ-RH column with the mobile phase of methanol-water = 85:15(v/v), at a flow rate of 1 ml/min and a column temperature of 30°C. Acetonitrile and graphitized carbon black were used as the extractant and sorbent for pretreatment, respectively. This method provides excellent linearity (correlation coefficient ≥0.9986), high sensitivity (limit of quantification 5 μg/kg and limit of detection <0.25 μg/kg), satisfactory mean recoveries (76.2-91.0%) and relative standard deviation (intra-day RSDs ranged from 2.0 to 7.9% and inter-day RSDs ranged from 2.4 to 8.4%). In addition, a field trial to explore the stereoselective degradation of phenthoate enantiomers in citrus showed that (-)-phenthoate degraded faster than its antipode, resulting in the relative accumulation of (+)-phenthoate.
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- Chao Dong
- Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Laboratory of Citrus Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China.,Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Citrus and Seedling, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China
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- Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Laboratory of Citrus Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China.,Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Citrus and Seedling, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China
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- Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Laboratory of Citrus Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China.,Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Citrus and Seedling, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China
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- Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Laboratory of Citrus Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China.,Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Citrus and Seedling, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China
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- Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Laboratory of Citrus Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China.,Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Citrus and Seedling, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China
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- Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Laboratory of Citrus Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China.,Quality Supervision and Testing Center for Citrus and Seedling, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chongqing, China
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Rambabu L, Mohamed F, Dhanarisi J, Gawarammana I, Raubenheimer J, Mackenzie L, Roberts MS, Buckley N, Eddleston M. Acute phenthoate self-poisoning: a prospective case series. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2021; 60:214-220. [PMID: 33960866 DOI: 10.1080/15563650.2021.1917596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND The clinical characteristics following self-poisoning with organophosphorus (OP) insecticides differs according to the insecticide ingested. Phenthoate is a dimethoxy WHO Hazard Class II OP pesticide with limited literature on its clinical characteristics and outcome. We aimed to better understand its clinical characteristics by studying patients with phenthoate self-poisoning in Sri Lanka. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of patients presenting with phenthoate self-poisoning to eight hospitals in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2018. Clinical outcomes were recorded for each patient. Blood samples for measuring plasma phenthoate concentration, cholinesterase activity, and response to oximes were available for a very small number of patients recruited to a clinical trial. RESULTS Two hundred and ninety-two patients who ingested agricultural phenthoate formulations were included in the study. Median time to admission was 3.9 (IQR 2.4 - 6.8) h. Forty-two (14.4%) patients were intubated, mostly (30/37, 81%) within 24 h of ingestion (median time to intubation 7.2 [IQR 2.6-20.9] h). Median duration of intubation was 74.8 (IQR 26.8-232.5) h; the longest duration in a survivor was 592 h. Nineteen died (case fatality 6.5%, 95% CI 4.0-10.0); median time to death was 37 (IQR 16 - 101.7) h. Median plasma phenthoate concentration in patients with samples (n = 81) was 135 (IQR 62.7-356.5) ng/mL (0.42 µmol/mL [0.2 to 1.1 µmol/mL]). Five of six patients receiving pralidoxime chloride 2 g showed an initial increase in AChE and BuChE activity that was not sustained despite an infusion of pralidoxime. CONCLUSION Phenthoate self-poisoning has a 6.5% case fatality rate. Most patients who experience respiratory failure undergo early intubation; most deaths occurred among those patients who were intubated less than 24 h after ingestion. There was a non-sustained increase in cholinesterase activity with pralidoxime, but further studies are required to analyse the extent to which oximes are clinically effective in phenthoate self-poisoning.
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- Lekaashree Rambabu
- National Health Service Tayside, Dundee, UK.,Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.,Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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- South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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- South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Discipline of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Research Group, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Therapeutics Research Centre, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.,Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Research, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia
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- Therapeutics Research Centre, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.,Therapeutics Research Centre, Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Research Group, Discipline of Pharmacology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Pharmacology, Toxicology, & Therapeutics, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Edinburgh, UK.,Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Shrivas K, Patel S, Thakur SS, Shankar R. Food safety monitoring of the pesticide phenthoate using a smartphone-assisted paper-based sensor with bimetallic Cu@Ag core-shell nanoparticles. LAB ON A CHIP 2020; 20:3996-4006. [PMID: 32966488 DOI: 10.1039/d0lc00515k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Presently, the use of several pesticides has been continuously rising owing to the increase in the production of food materials to meet the requirements of the growing population of the world. The safety of food materials with regards to pesticides is an important health concern for people. With this aim, we have developed a smartphone-assisted paper-based sensor impregnated with citrate capped Cu@Ag core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) for selective determination of phenthoate pesticides in water and food samples. The mechanism for selective detection is based on the high affinity of phenthoate to interact with silver NPs present on the surface of CuNPs, which results in aggregation and a change in the color of the paper device. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism and interaction of phenthoate with Cu@Ag NPs was theoretically investigated by density functional theory (DFT) using Gaussian 16.0 software. The linear range for the determination of phenthoate was found in the range of 50-1500 μg L-1, with a limit of detection of 15 μg L-1, and a 92.6 to 97.4% recovery, and the interference studies demonstrated the selectivity for the determination of the target analyte from complex sample matrices. Finally, paper impregnated with Cu@Ag was exploited for the monitoring of the phenthoate pesticide in different water and food samples. The advantages of this paper-based sensor, coupled with a smartphone readout system, are that is it is user-friendly, easy-to-use, cost-effective, and can be applied at the sample source compared to sophisticated analytical instruments.
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- Kamlesh Shrivas
- School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, CG 492010, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Government Nagarjuna Post Graduate College of Science, Raipur, CG-492010, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Koni, Bilaspur, CG 495009, India
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- Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Program, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota-57701, USA
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Organophosphorus pesticide determination in biological specimens: bioanalytical and toxicological aspects. Int J Legal Med 2019; 133:1763-1784. [DOI: 10.1007/s00414-019-02119-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Nara A, Yamada C, Kodama T, Saka K, Takagi T. Fatal Poisoning with Both Dichlorvos and Phenthoate,. J Forensic Sci 2018; 63:1928-1931. [DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Akina Nara
- Division of Legal Medicine; Faculty of Medicine; Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku Sendai-shi Miyagi 981-8558 Japan
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- Division of Legal Medicine; Faculty of Medicine; Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku Sendai-shi Miyagi 981-8558 Japan
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- Division of Legal Medicine; Faculty of Medicine; Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku Sendai-shi Miyagi 981-8558 Japan
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- Department of Forensic Medicine; Graduate School of Medicine; The University of Tokyo; 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
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- Division of Legal Medicine; Faculty of Medicine; Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku Sendai-shi Miyagi 981-8558 Japan
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Barr DB, Needham LL. Analytical methods for biological monitoring of exposure to pesticides: a review. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2002; 778:5-29. [PMID: 12376114 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-0232(02)00035-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Synthetic pesticides have been used since in the early to mid twentieth century. In the US alone, over 800 pesticide active ingredients are formulated in about 21,000 different commercial products. Although many public health benefits have been realized by the use of pesticides, their potential impact on the environment and public health is substantial. For risk assessment studies, exposure assessment is an integral component, which has unfortunately, often been weak or missing. In the past several decades, researchers have proposed to fill these missing data gaps using biological monitoring of specific markers related to exposures. In this paper, we present a review of existing analytical methodology for the biological monitoring of exposure to pesticides. We also present a critical assessment of the existing methodology and explore areas in which more research is needed.
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- Dana B Barr
- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Mailstop F17, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.
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Gotoh M, Sakata M, Endo T, Hayashi H, Seno H, Suzuki O. Profenofos metabolites in human poisoning. Forensic Sci Int 2001; 116:221-6. [PMID: 11182275 DOI: 10.1016/s0379-0738(00)00377-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Profenofos and its metabolites were determined in a case of fatal poisoning. Little profenofos and large amounts of metabolites were detected by gas chromatography/flame photometric detection in the acid extracts of blood and urine after methylation with diazomethane. Four major metabolites containing phosphorus were identified with the synthesized metabolites, namely, despropylated profenofos, desethylated profenofos and des-S-propylated profenofos, respectively. 4-Bromo-2-chlorophenol (BCP), an aryl moiety of profenofos, was also determined in blood and urine with high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) as free or conjugated metabolites.
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- M Gotoh
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, 061-0293, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Japan
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Sakata M, Gotoh M, Ubukata K, Hayashi H, Kotaki M, Omote T. Prothiofos metabolites in human poisoning. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY 1999; 37:327-32. [PMID: 10384797 DOI: 10.1081/clt-100102430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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CASE REPORT A 63-year-old woman was admitted to a local hospital after the ingestion of 40% prothiofos preparation (Tokuthion) 370 mL. Gastric lavage was performed and cathartics, active charcoal, diuretics, atropine sulfate, and pralidoxime were administered. Serum cholinesterase activity was 1.3 IU/L (normal 200-460 IU/L). The patient's consciousness was gradually restored after 4 hours of charcoal hemoperfusion and she was discharged 5 days after admission with no sequelae. METHOD Plasma and urine prothiofos and metabolites were detected by gas chromatography-flame photometry and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Two despropyl metabolites were synthesized for identification and estimation. RESULTS The main metabolites were identified with authentic prothiofos and methyl esters of synthesized des-S-propyl prothiofos oxon (O-2,4-dichlorophenyl O-ethyl phosphate), despropyl prothiofos oxon (O-2,4-dichlorophenyl O-ethyl phospholothiolate), and des-S-propyl prothiofos (O-2,4-dichlorophenyl O-ethyl phosphorothioate). Despropyl prothiofos (O-2,4-dichlorophenyl O-ethyl phosphorodithioate) was also identified in plasma. Large amounts of the hydrolyzed product, 2,4-dichlorophenol and its conjugate were also found. The metabolic pattern of prothiofos in humans appears to be different from that in rats.
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- M Sakata
- Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Nayoro City Hospital, Japan.
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Kato T, Ogiso T, Kato K, Sano M, Hasegawa R, Shirai T, Ito N. Lack of promoting activity of four pesticides on induction of preneoplastic liver cell foci in rats. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1995; 15:251-7. [PMID: 8867880 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770150504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Four pesticides were examined for hepatopromoting activity using a medium-term bioassay based upon induction of glutathione S-transferase placental form (GST-P) positive foci in the rat liver. Male F344 rats were initially injected with diethylnitrosamine (DEN; 200 mg/kg body weight) intraperitoneally and 2 weeks later were treated with O-ethyl O-4-nitrophenyl phenylphosphonothioate (EPN; 75 and 150 ppm), diazinon (500 and 1,000 ppm), phenthoate (500 and 1,000 ppm), or iprobenfos (500 and 1,000 ppm) in the diet for 6 weeks and then killed, all rats being subjected to partial hepatectomy at week 3. All of the pesticides gave negative results, the numbers and areas of GST-P positive foci not exceeding the control values for animals given DEN alone. Indeed, a significant reduction of foci development was seen for EPN (75 ppm). These findings provide experimental evidence that the presently examined four pesticides do not have hepatocarcinogenic potential in rats.
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- T Kato
- First Department of Pathology, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan
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