CHOLINESTERASE ACTIVITY IN JAPANESE QUAIL DUSTED WITH CARBARYL

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 29  (3) , 349-352
Abstract
Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were dusted with 5% carbaryl [an insecticide] to determine if this topical treatment would alter plasma and brain cholinesterase activiites. Within 6 h after dusting, plasma cholinesterase activity was depressed compared with controls, the depression averaging 20% for females and 27% for males. By 24 h the cholinesterase activity of females returned to normal but the cholinesterase activity of males remained depressed. Brain cholinesterase activity was not affected by the treatment, and there were no overt toxic signs.

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