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UK 786 Possible Species-Specific Toxicant for Norway Rats

Nature volume 241, pages 551–552 (1973)Cite this article

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UK 7861 (5-(N-piperidino)-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo (a.d.)-cycloheptene (Dr J. Morrison, Pfizer Ltd.)) is a compound whose acute oral LD50 has been reported to be 6.6 mg kg−1 in male albino rats and 1,160 mg in male albino mice2. These data suggested that UK 786 might be a highly specific toxicant for rats, and we conducted the following series of tests with thirteen species of birds and mammals to investigate this.

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    P. J. SAVARIE, G. H. MATSCHKE, E. W. SCHAFER & G. J. DASCH

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SAVARIE, P., MATSCHKE, G., SCHAFER, E. et al. UK 786 Possible Species-Specific Toxicant for Norway Rats. Nature 241, 551–552 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241551a0

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