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The Nervous Systems of Helminths as Targets for Drugs
1 Apr 1992
Abstract excerpt
Processes that critically differentiate parasitic helminths and their hosts are obvious candidates for chemotherapeutic intervention. The recognition that neurobiology distinguishes helminths from their vertebrate hosts is due in part to the fact that several efficacious anthelmintics, derived generally from empirical screening, have been found to act selectively on the neuromuscular system of these parasites. In...
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