10.6084/m9.figshare.8987567.v1 Jyoti Upadhyay Jyoti Upadhyay Mahendra Rana Mahendra Rana Satpal Singh Bisht Satpal Singh Bisht Amita Rana Amita Rana Sumit Durgapal Sumit Durgapal Vijay Juyal Vijay Juyal Biomarker responses (serum biochemistry) in pregnant female wistar rats and histopathology of their neonates exposed prenatally to pesticides SciELO journals 2019 Glyphosate, Carbendazim Biomarker responses Biomarkers/ analysis Pesticide exposure/histopathology Newborn/ histopathology Herbicides/ toxicity 2019-07-24 03:18:22 Dataset https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Biomarker_responses_serum_biochemistry_in_pregnant_female_wistar_rats_and_histopathology_of_their_neonates_exposed_prenatally_to_pesticides/8987567 <div><p>Experiments were conducted to investigate the effects on health of pregnant female rats exposed to pesticides glyphosate and carbendazim. Glyphosate is used as herbicide and carbendazim as a fungicide; all are commercially available readily for various agricultural and domestic purposes. The hypothesis tested in this investigation is that pesticide exposure during pregnancy causes changes in biomarker responses like serum glucose level, total protein, total cholesterol, triglycerides, SGOT, SGPT, and billirubin level. Significant changes were observed in all above biomarker responses, when compared with the reference. Histopathology of skin and kidney of rat neonates showed marked damage. Degenerative changes and vacuolization with eroded capsule were observed in kidney sample and thinning of epidermis in skin sample was seen in pesticides exposed neonates of rats. The serum biochemistry and histopathological findings are valuable markers for observing the changes caused by pesticide exposure.</p></div>