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Q: Dieldrin:cause of Parkinson’s Disease Although Its Banned
asked by: icareyou on September 21st, 2006
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Now I want to share my knowledge about the parkinson’s disease, I have read a news here edit that banned pesticide that still lingers in the environment could be damaging human brain cells and prompting the onset of parkinson's disease we can't say at this point that pesticides cause parkinson's disease, but we feel it accelerates the process," there is a big panel of doctors give a group report that levels of dieldrin in the autopsied brain tissue of 14 parkinson's patients were more than three times those of 12 similarly aged people who didn't have the disease.

The researchers also exposed mice to repeated low-level doses of dieldrin to simulate environmental exposure that humans might encounter. The mice's brain tissue showed significant reductions in the uptake of dopamine, a neurotransmitter. And, levels of carbonyls -- a marker of oxidative stress -- were increased substantially in the brain of dieldrin-treated mice. And lot of new research are going on the this disease so let us update to each other, dieldrin was banned in the 1987 but, dr pennell said, "it's very persistent and remains in the ground. It accumulates in lipid tissues, including the brain." so you have to avoid its use.

There is one doctor dr miller they said that today people are being exposed to much lower levels of pesticides than people were 30 or 40 years ago," and "i would predict that over the course of the next several decades that we will see a decrease in the incidence of parkinson's disease."
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Dr. Nikola
replied on April 14th, 2008
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Parkinson disease and Parkinson syndrome
There is a difference between Parkinson disease and Parkinson syndrome. Parkinson disease is a disorder with unknown etiology while Parkinson syndrome is a group of disorders with known etiology (including chronic poisoning with pesticide "dieldrin") that have the same symptoms like Parkinson disease.
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