I will be happy if you could send me fultext articles with detailed methodology and discussion
Dear Chikaodili Ukonze,
The attached file can be useful for you. It appears that the selective toxicity of pyrethroids in insects over mammals results from a higher potency to change sodium channels in insects, probably due several factor, including differences in body temperature.
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Hudson
Dear Ukonze,
read this document you can understand why, as well as gerais said, it depends of several factors, body temperature, also adipose tissue....
good luck
It can not be compared so for effectiveness of insecticides between mammals and insects as one vertebrate and other does not. The mode of action vary. It depends ultimately how much concentration is reaching the nervous system of target animal.
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