Interaction of lindane isomers with chloride currents in insect membranes: Steric requirements for channel modulation and block

Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-48

  Lees, George ^a,b   Calder, Julie ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030135608     PISSN: 00483575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pest.1996.0033     Document Type: Article

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