Variation of brain and serum cholinesterase activity with age in wild small mammals

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 604-611

  Fishwick, S K ^a   Shore, R F ^a   Turk, A ^a   Sparks, T H ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE;

ARTICLE; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CARBAMATES; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CHOLINESTERASES; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MURIDAE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030044066     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900087     Document Type: Article

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