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Effect of Oxygen on Cyanide Poisoning in Insects

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CYANIDE toxicity is closely associated with respiratory inhibition and, in many forms of life, death is attributed to disruption of oxidative metabolism through inhibition of the enzyme cytochrome oxidase. In insects also, cyanide inhibits the terminal oxidase, and it has been shown that in the insect heart cyanide sensitivity is closely associated with aerobic metabolism1.

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  1. Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, University sub-Post Office, London, Ontario

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BOND, E. Effect of Oxygen on Cyanide Poisoning in Insects. Nature 193, 1002–1003 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931002b0

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