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level questions: INSECTICIDES

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Symptoms: increased respiratory and cardiac rates, CLONIC & TONIC SPASMS, MUSCULAR DEPRESSIONS, followed by respiratory depression Contributes in parkinson’s disease Derived from Roots of - Derris elliptica, - Lonchocarpus utilis, and - Lonchocarpus urucuRotenoids
Rotenoid derivative (used as agricultural insecticide, acaricide= organic farming)Rotonone
Signs and Symptoms: Nausea and vomiting, muscle weakness, respiratory effects, headache, LETHARGY, and tachycardia USED AS A FREE BASE OR AS SULFATE SALT. Alkaloid is extracted from the leaves of tobacco plants (Nicotiana tobacum and Nicotiana rustica)Nicotine
toxicity caused by Dermal Absorption of the nicotineGreen Tobacco Sickness
Signs and Symptoms of toxicity: overdosing or poisoning= HYPEREXCITABILITY, TREMORS, and INCOORDINATION, followed by ataxia and COMA-LIKE SEDATION Macrolytic lactones Derived from the bacteria STREPTOMYCES AVERMITILISAvermectin
Semisynthetic derivatives of avermectin (all are used as insecticides and antiparasitic)1) B1a, 2) Emamectin benzoate, 3) Ivermectin
1 (to control mites) 2 (effective in controlling lepidopteran species and crops- moth, butterfly species, and EMERALD ASH BORER= creates holes in the trees) 3 for ONCHOCERCIASIS (liver blindness), LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS1 Abamectin 2 Emamectin benzoate 3 Ivermectin
§ Seen in baygon, insecticides sprayed in household § Effective in repelling insects, fly, fleas, ticks § Protection time increases when increase concentrations § Does not affect directly with human but on higher doses, drinkDEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide or N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide) (Insect Repellants)