LOCALIZATION OF CHOLINESTERASES IN THE CHICKEN NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE PROBLEM OF THE SELECTIVE NEUROTOXICITY OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
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- 1 June 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 16 (3), 218-230
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5381.1961.tb01081.x
Abstract
Using the thiocholine method, a restricted survey has been made of cholinesterases in the spinal cord and brain stem of the chicken. No simple relation between sites of selective damage in organophosphorus neurotoxicity and centres of cholinesterase activity could be adduced. Moreover, no significant differences between species susceptible and insusceptible to poisoning by these compounds were found by this method. It is concluded that, while cholinesterase may well play an intermediary role in the intoxication, other factors determine the selective damage to certain neurones and their processes.Keywords
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