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Category: Agro-Products, Amines, Aromatics /// Appearance: Dark Green Solution /// Application Notes: Paraquat is a quarternary nitrogen compound that is used as an herbicide to eliminate unwanted weeds and grasses by inducing superoxide production in the mitochondria, causing a great deal of oxidative damage. Paraquat is highly toxic to humans, causing acute poisoning, lung damage and death. Paraquat is also thought to cause Parkinson's disease. /// References: Cochemé, H., & Murphy, M.: J. Biol. Chem., 283, 1786 (2008)| Suntres, Z.: Toxicology, 180, 65 (2002)| Yang, W., et al.: J. Toxicol. Env. Heal. Part A: 71, 289 (2008)
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