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Drug-resistant Drosophila indicate glutamate-gated chloride channels are targets for the antiparasitics nodulisporic acid and ivermectin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Dec 2000
Kane N S, Hirschberg B, Qian S, Hunt D, Thomas B, Brochu R, Ludmerer S W, Zheng Y, Smith M, Arena J P, Cohen C J, Schmatz D, Warmke J, Cully D F
Abstract excerpt
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster was used to examine the mode of action of the novel insecticide and acaricide nodulisporic acid. Flies resistant to nodulisporic acid were selected by stepwise increasing the dose of drug in the culture media. The resistant strain, glc(1), is at least 20-fold resistant to nodulisporic acid and 3-fold cross-resistant to the parasiticide ivermectin, and exhibited decreased...
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