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SOME unusual relationships between temperature, cuticle permeability, and metabolic activity have emerged from a study of the action of D.D.T. on resistant insects. Observations that the primary stages of D.D.T. poisoning are reversible have provided a clue to the mode of action of this substance and related compounds, which is analogous to that of liquid fat-solvent narcotics. The supporting evidence may be briefly summarized as follows.
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HURST, H. Reversible Action of D.D.T. Nature 163, 286–287 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163286a0
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