Philippe Berny

TL;DR: A high performance thin layer chromatography technique was developed and applied successfully to birds found dead after a known exposure to the compound and indicates that imidacloprid accounts for the majority of the toxic residues detected in the tissues and organs of affected animals.

TL;DR: VKOR activity in warfarin‐resistant rats was poorly inhibited by warfarins, which could be a good explanation to the observation that no clinical signs of vitamin K deficiency was observed in the warfarIn‐resistant strain, while a low VKOR activity was found.

TL;DR: This biomolecular approach to studying and detecting resistance is easier to carry out than the phenotypic approach measuring blood coagulation time because it can be conducted on biological samples from dead animals, and it is less dangerous for the operator.

TL;DR: It is indicated that an important risk of poisoning of nontarget species does exist during large-scale field control operations with bromadiolone, which is contradictory to results obtained from laboratory experiments in the early 1980s and consistent with the secondary poisoning hazards due to repeated exposure regularly reported during the past 20 years.

TL;DR: Excessive pesticide use in the Sebitoli area may contribute to facial dysplasia in chimpanzees and baboons through this endocrine pathway.