Chlorpyrifos
"Chlorpyrifos" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An organothiophosphate cholinesterase inhibitor that is used as an insecticide and as an acaricide.
| Descriptor ID |
D004390
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.705.400.625.100 D02.705.539.345.100 D02.886.300.692.100
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Dai D, Tang J, Rose R, Hodgson E, Bienstock RJ, Mohrenweiser HW, Goldstein JA. Identification of variants of CYP3A4 and characterization of their abilities to metabolize testosterone and chlorpyrifos. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2001 Dec; 299(3):825-31.