EDCtox

Mechanistic evidence atlas. Scores summarise biological direction and magnitude. They are not a toxicity rank or a human-risk number.

Compounds

Paraquat

Paraquat

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Category
herbicide · Bipyridyl herbicide
Record
specific compound · restricted
Identifiers
CAS 4685-14-7 · C12H14N2
Aliases
Paraquat dichloride

Bipyridyl herbicide. Seed assessments emphasise mitochondrial and redox activity. Classical estrogen or androgen receptor activity is not scored.

CAS is the cation. Formulations commonly use the dichloride (CAS 1910-42-5). Status is jurisdiction-dependent.

Flags: environmental chemical

Phase-1 numbers are seed hypotheses. They are not curated consensus, not a toxicity total, and not a statement of human risk. Association is not written as causation.

Mitochondrial dysfunction +4 · H2 · high

Mitochondrial dysfunction is strongly supported experimentally. A human neurodegenerative diagnosis is not automatically assigned.

Phase-1 seed hypothesis, not a curated systematic review. Where a range was discussed, the stored integer is the conservative end closer to zero. A score is biological direction and magnitude, not human risk. Dose relevance to ordinary environmental exposure is uncertain.