> >I also remember from a not so distant Toxicology lecture, something
> >similiar, so I delved into my notes and Leonard's Fundamentals of
> >Psycopharmacology(1992) and Timbrells "Principals of Biochemical
> >toxicology"(1991)
> In <3293C540.4FA0 at Ifn-magdeburg.de> Christopher Hatton
> <Hatton at Ifn-magdeburg.de> writes:
> >
> >n-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridinium, is the contaminate and the metabolite
> MPP+
> >is the neurotoxin and destroys dopamine preoducing cells. Leonard
> >speculates that herbicides may produce the same symptoms. I myself
> >would go along with that and now I would sugges that metabolites in
> >small concetration would cross blood brain barrier after
> >biotransformation by Cyto. P450's on the endothelia cells. (haven't
> >any proof mind)
Ann Campbell replied:
> +++++++++++++++++++++OHMYGOD, no proof!!! A thinking person!!>
I've been called many things in my life but never a thinking person,
I'll lurk on the newsgroup but no promises of full scale interaction
as I'm not familiar with the area.
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also, cos there's bugger all life left in either.
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