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Article: Agricultural fungicide could cause irreversible immune system damage.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- May 8, 2002
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2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Natural killer cells are like the Marines of our immune system; they have the capability to defend us against many different threats. But researchers have uncovered a potential counter-threat to this front-line protection.
Our body's natural killer cells could be rendered irreversibly powerless to guard against invading tumors and viral onslaughts after only a brief exposure to a compound found in some agricultural pesticides and fungicides.
The findings were presented at the 223rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Triphenyltin (TPT) is a compound used in fungicides to protect pecan, ...