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Greg Pask
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Assistant Prof of Bio @Middlebury interested in ants, beetles, insects, and smell. Tweets only make sense in the context of the whole colony #superorganism
Sep 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
So here’s an ion channel nerd’s take on #Ivermectin, why it’s not just horse paste, and why it only targets what it’s supposed to target… invertebrate parasites!

A thread Here’s the structure of ivermectin. It functions as an agonist of glutamate-gated chloride channels, which means it opens these channels and chloride can move into or out of the cell.