Toxic Effects of Atrazine on Reproductive and Immune Systems in Animal Models

Abstract

Background: Each year massive amounts of over 70,000 chemicals are dumped into the sea. For many of the chemicals, the consequences of it coming into contact with marine life. For such reasons, there was a large die off of American lobsters in the Long Island Sound. Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides, and detected pesticide contaminant of ground water in the USA, which is linked to hormonal dysregulation of animal/human reproduction. However, Atrazine's effects on invertebrate reproduction and other systems are still unknown.