Toxicology

Toxicology

A branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals or physical agents on living organisms, as well as the symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.

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Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR)

Biology; Toxicology

Quantitative structure-biological activity model derived using regression analysis and containing as parameters physicochemical constants, indicator variables or theoretically calculated ...

Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)

Biology; Toxicology

Protein produced by several of the body's cell types, such as white blood cells, red blood cells, and other cells that line the blood vessels; it promotes the destruction of some types of cancer ...

Three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR)

Biology; Toxicology

Quantitative association between the three-dimensional structural properties of a substance and its biological properties.

Quantitative structure metabolism relationship (QSMR)

Biology; Toxicology

Quantitative association between the physicochemical and (or) the structural properties of a substance and its metabolic behavior.

Species-specific sensitivity

Biology; Toxicology

Quantitative and qualitative features of response to the action(s) of a potentially toxic substance that are characteristic for a particular species of living organism.