RT Book, Section
A1 Moser, Virginia C.
A1 Aschner, Michael
A1 Richardson, Jason R.
A1 Bowman, Aaron B.
A1 Richardson, Rudy J.
A2 Klaassen, Curtis D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1158499879
T1 Toxic Responses of the Nervous System
T2 Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 9th edition
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259863745
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158499879
RD 2024/04/24
AB Neurotoxicants  and  neurotoxins  have  been  extensively  studied  because  of  their  toxic  effects  on  humans  and  their  utility  in  the  study  of  the  nervous  system  (NS).  Many  insights  into  the  organization  and  function  of  the  NS  are  based  on  observations  derived  from  the  action  of  neurotoxicants.  The  binding  of  exogenous  compounds  to  membranes  has  been  the  basis  for  the  definition  of  specific  receptors  within  the  brain;  an  understanding  of  the  roles  of  different  cell  types  in  the  function  of  the  NS  has  stemmed  from  the  selectivity  of  certain  toxicants  in  injuring  specific  cell  types  while  sparing  others,  and  important  differences  in  basic  metabolic  requirements  of  different  subpopulations  of  neurons  have  been  inferred  from  the  effects  of  neurotoxicants.