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The information presented in this chapter concerns the mammalian nervous system. However, it should be recognized that similar mechanisms may occur in other organisms and, indeed, many important aspects of the process of apoptosis were initially discovered in studies of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans [2]. 

Tests show that the presence of soil reduces the toxicity of copper to the soil-dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans copper toxicity to nematodes increases with increasing densities of bacteria and increasing concentrations of sodium chloride or potassium chloride (Donkin and Dusenbery 1993). Terrestrial isopods efficiently assimilate and store copper as detoxihed granules in the hepatopancreas this activity is in contrast to many species of marine crustaceans that are unable to assimilate, detoxify, or otherwise regulate copper (Weeks and Rainbow 1993). 

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