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The molecular interactions of pyrethroid insecticides with insect and mammalian sodium channels.
Pest management science - 1 Oct 2001
Vais H, Williamson M S, Devonshire A L, Usherwood P N
Abstract excerpt
Recent progress in the cloning of alpha (para) and beta (TipE) Na channel sub-units from Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) and Musca domestica (housefly) have facilitated functional expression studies of insect Na channels in Xenopus laevis oocytes, assayed by voltage clamp techniques. The effects of Type I and Type III pyrethroids on the biophysical properties of these channels are critically reviewed....
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