Description: Propoxur (Propoxure) is an insecticide used to control cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes, and lawn and turf insects. Acute (short-term) exposure of humans to propoxur by ingestion leads to cholinesterase inhibition of red blood cells, with mild cholinergic symptoms including blurred vision, nausea,...

Propoxur is a carbamate insecticide, an inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase (IC50 = 4.3 µM), and an antagonist of alpha4beta4 subunit-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (IC50 = 165 µM for the rat receptor). It is lethal to German cockroaches (B. germanica) with LD50 values of 2.45, 4.73, and 1.06 µg per...