Drosophila melanogaster: An alternative animal for the study of heavy-metal induced neurotoxicity.

Heavy metals cause irreversible neurobehavioral damage in many developing mammals, but the mechanisms of this damage are unknown. The influence of three heavy metal compounds, triethyllead chloride, lead acetate, and cadmium chloride, on lethality, development, behavior and learning was studied usin...

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Main Author: Akins, Jonathan McGhee.
Other Authors: Aposhian, H. V.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1991
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144637