Genetic factors in neurotoxicology and neuropharmacology: a critical evaluation of the use of genetics as a research tool.

doi:10.1007/BF01923334

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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

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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 seve...

Topics

Animals
Genes
Genetic Variation
Humans
Inactivation, Metabolic
Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases
Parkinson Disease, Secondary
Seizures
Xenobiotics

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