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Genetic factors in neurotoxicology and neuropharmacology: a critical evaluation of the use of genetics as a research tool.
Experientia - 15 Oct 1991
Festing M F
Abstract excerpt
Animals have evolved a detoxication system to enable them to survive in a hostile chemical environment in which foods contain many non-nutrient chemicals. Detoxication depends on enzymes which are often genetically polymorphic. As a result, inter-individual variation is common, and in humans several Mendelian loci have been identified. However, most variation in response is probably due to the action of several...
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