High permeability of insect blood-brain barrier to alcohols demonstrated by an electrophysiological technique
- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 31 (10) , 1194-1196
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02326789
Abstract
Using the anaesthetic effects of the alcohols to measure their concentration within the cockroach central nervous system, it is shown that the lower homologues have access half-times of only a few seconds. Slower access of the higher homologues is interpreted in terms of a reservoir effect resulting from their higher liposolubility.Keywords
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