Thiabendazole (Mintezol, TBZ)
Hey there. Let me break it down for you, nice and easy like:
KILLS
- fungi (molds and spots and rots and blights) that spoil fruits and vegetables
- messes up cell division, protein synthesis, and cellular respiration
- sprayed on crops and used as a food preservative
- parasitic worms that cause disease in livestock and humans
- human diseases it is used to treat include strongyloidiasis, cutaneous larva migrans (aka creeping eruption...totally icky), visceral larva migrans (aka toxocariasis), and trichinellosis
- messes up cellular respiration (citric acid cycle) by inhibiting some enzyme
- people poisoned with metals (lead, mercury, antimony)
- it is a chelating agent that can bind said metals and facilitate their excretion from the body, thus limiting their toxicity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiabendazole
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