TitlePesticide and Venom Neurotoxicity [electronic resource] / edited by D. L. Shankland, R. M. Hollingworth, T. Smyth
ImprintBoston, MA : Springer US, 1978
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8834-4
Descript X, 284 p. online resource

CONTENT

General Introduction -- Section I Sites of Neurotoxic Action in Insects -- The Insect Central Nervous System as a Site of Action of Neurotoxicants -- Acetylcholine Receptors: Purification, Structure, and Interaction with Insecticides -- Isomeric Forms of Acetylcholinesterase -- Novel Inhibitors of Insect Choline Acetyltransferase and Their Effects on Synaptic Transmission at an Insect Cholinergic Synapse -- Insecticide-Induced Release of Neurosecretory Hormones -- The Insect Neuromuscular System as a Site of Insecticide Action -- Section II Neurotoxic Actions of Synthetic Insecticides and Acaricides -- Neurophysiological Study of the Structure โ Activity Relations of Insecticides -- Toxicities of ?-BHC and Related Compounds -- Nitromethylene Heterocycles as Insecticides -- The House Fly Metabolism of Nitromethylene Insecticides -- The Cardiovascular Toxicity of Chlordimeform: A Local Anesthetic-Like Action -- Formamidine Pesticides โ Actions in Insects and Acarines -- Formamidine Pesticides โ Metabolic Aspects of Neurotoxicity -- Section III Neurotoxic Actions of Arthropod Venoms -- Effects and Chemical Characterization of Some Paralyzing Venoms of Solitary Wasps -- Chemistry, Specificity, and Action of Arthropod Toxic Proteins Derived from Scorpion Venoms -- Ant Venoms: A Study of Venom Diversity -- Actions of Some Neurotoxic Proteins of Black Widow Spider Venom 2


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Veterinary medicine
  3. Medicine & Public Health
  4. Veterinary Medicine