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Single and Effective Insect Repellent for All Types of Insects Soon Possible
The new class of insect repellant is made in the laboratory of Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology Laurence Zwiebel.
"It wasn't something we set out to find. It was an anomaly that we noticed in our tests," said David Rinker, a graduate student who performed the study in collaboration with graduate student Gregory Pask and post-doctoral fellow Patrick Jones.
"It's too soon to determine whether this specific compound can act as the basis of a commercial product. But it is the first of its kind and, as such, can be used to develop other similar compounds that have characteristics appropriate for commercialization," said Zwiebel.
The discovery of this new class of repellant is based on insights that scientists have gained about the basic nature of the insect's sense of smell in the last few years.
The researchers determined that the compound named VUAA1activates insect odorant receptors OR-Orco complexes in a manner similar to a typical odorant molecule.
Jones also verified that mosquitoes respond to exposure to VUAA1, a crucial step in demonstrating that VUAA1 can affect a mosquito's behavior.
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