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Disease Vectors

 
 
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Disease relevance of Disease Vectors

 

High impact information on Disease Vectors

  • This gut-specific black fly carboxypeptidase promoter provides a valuable tool for the study of disease vectors [2].
  • Mammalian hepatic carboxylesterases (CEs) play important roles in the detoxification of ester-containing pyrethroids, which are widely used for the control of agricultural pests and disease vectors such as mosquitoes [3].
  • Like other mosquitoes, the biting and host preference behaviors of this disease vector are largely influenced by its sense of smell, which is presumably facilitated by G protein-coupled receptor signaling cascades [4].
  • These results may have epidemiologic importance considering that permethrin-soaked bed nets are being used in many countries to control the biting activity of disease vectors [5].
  • Deltamethrin (DTM) is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide used wideworld in agriculture, home pest control, protection of foodstuff, and disease vector control [6].
 

Associations of Disease Vectors with chemical compounds

  • Tammany Parish Mosquito Control, ADAPCO, Inc., and the Navy Disease Vector Ecology and Control Center, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, FL [7].
  • Moreover, protection afforded by Deet, SS220, and Picaridin against the feeding of these three disease vectors on humans is mechanistically a consequence of the two chemical effects [8].
  • Four among these exhibited promising activity comparable to that of the conventional organophosphate, temephos, thus providing for the first time a possible reserve arsenal for the control of the guineaworm disease vector [9].
  • Field trials of slow-release formulations of chlorpyrifos and malathion for the control of Chagas's disease vectors [10].
  • While production and use of most of the listed chemicals will shortly be eliminated, there is widespread agreement that DDT will continue to be needed for disease vector control [11].
 

Gene context of Disease Vectors

  • This atypical heteromeric and topological design appears to be an insect-specific solution for odor recognition, making the OR/OR83b complex an attractive target for the development of highly selective insect repellents to disrupt olfactory-mediated host-seeking behaviors of insect disease vectors [12].

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  3. Stereoselective hydrolysis of pyrethroid-like fluorescent substrates by human and other mammalian liver carboxylesterases. Huang, H., Fleming, C.D., Nishi, K., Redinbo, M.R., Hammock, B.D. Chem. Res. Toxicol. (2005) [Pubmed]
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  6. Effects of deltamethrin on functions of rat liver mitochondria and on native and synthetic model membranes. Braguini, W.L., Cadena, S.M., Carnieri, E.G., Rocha, M.E., de Oliveira, M.B. Toxicol. Lett. (2004) [Pubmed]
  7. Aerial optimization and canopy penetration study of Dibrom 14 Concentrate. Brown, J.R., Reynolds, W.H., Palmisano, C., Taylor, V. J. Am. Mosq. Control Assoc. (2005) [Pubmed]
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