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Descriptor English: Heptachlor
Descriptor Spanish: Heptacloro
Descriptor heptacloro
Scope note: Compuesto artificial utilizado previamente en el control de las termitas y de otros insectos. Aunque la producción de heptacloro se suspendió gradualmente en los Estados Unidos a finales de los años 80, sigue estando en el suelo y en vertederos de residuos peligrosos. Es claramente un compuesto tóxico para los animales y los humanos, pero la International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Agencia Internacional para la Investigación del Cáncer) ha determinado que el heptacloro no es clasificable como carcinógeno para el hombre. (Traducción libre del original: ATSDR Public Heath Statement, April 1989)
Descriptor Portuguese: Heptacloro
Descriptor French: Heptachlore
Tree number(s): D02.455.526.439.516
SP4.808.749.664.539.796.777
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006533
Scope note: A man-made compound previously used to control termites and other insects. Even though production of heptachlor was phased out of use in the United States during the late 1980's it remains in soil and hazardous waste sites. It is clearly toxic to animals and humans but, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that heptachlor is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans. (From ATSDR Public Heath Statement, April 1989)
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Pharm Action: Insecticides
Soil Pollutants
Registry Number: 7GLS9ACN3L
CAS Type 1 Name: 4,7-Methano-1H-indene, 1,4,5,6,7,8,8-heptachloro-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-
Previous Indexing: Insecticides (1966-1970)
Public MeSH Note: 73
History Note: 73(71)
DeCS ID: 6689
Unique ID: D006533
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Heptachlor - Preferred
Concept UI M0010240
Scope note A man-made compound previously used to control termites and other insects. Even though production of heptachlor was phased out of use in the United States during the late 1980's it remains in soil and hazardous waste sites. It is clearly toxic to animals and humans but, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that heptachlor is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans. (From ATSDR Public Heath Statement, April 1989)
Preferred term Heptachlor



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