Article
Distinct roles of the DmNav and DSC1 channels in the action of DDT and pyrethroids.
Neurotoxicology - 1 Mar 2015
Rinkevich Frank D, Du Yuzhe, Tolinski Josh, Ueda Atsushi, Wu Chun-Fang, Zhorov Boris S, Dong Ke
Abstract excerpt
Voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav channels) are critical for electrical signaling in the nervous system and are the primary targets of the insecticides DDT and pyrethroids. In Drosophila melanogaster, besides the canonical Nav channel, Para (also called DmNav), there is a sodium channel-like cation channel called DSC1 (Drosophila sodium channel 1). Temperature-sensitive paralytic mutations in DmNav (para(ts))...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium Channels
- DDT
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Insecticides
- Mutation
- Oocytes
- Pyrethrins
- Sodium Channels
- Xenopus
