Chronic exposure to the herbicide, atrazine, causes mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance.
There is an apparent overlap between areas in the USA where the herbicide, atrazine (ATZ), is heavily used and obesity-prevalence maps of people with a BMI over 30. Given that herbicides act on photosystem II of the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts, which have a functional structure similar to mit...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/bdfd7ce2665d430bb4e3536df016bad3 |
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