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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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Toxicology
Pinocytosis
Biology; Toxicology
Type of endocytosis in which soluble materials are taken up by the cell and incorporated into vesicles for digestion.
Compartmental analysis
Biology; Toxicology
Mathematical process leading to a model of transport of a substance in terms of compartments and rate constants, usually taking the form C = Ae-αt + Be - βt… where each exponential term ...
Amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP)
Biology; Toxicology
Serious illness which is a consequence of consumption of bivalve shellfish (mollusks) such as mussels, oysters and clams that have ingested, by philtre feeding, large quantities of micro-algae ...
Cytochrome P-448
Biology; Toxicology
Obsolete term for cytochrome P-450 I, A1, and A2, one of the major families of the cytochromes P-450 hemoproteins. Note: During the mono-oxygenation of certain substances, often a detoxification ...
Allometric growth
Biology; Toxicology
Regular and systematic pattern of growth such that the mass or size of any organ or part of a body can be expressed in relation to the total mass or size of the entire organism according to the ...
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Biology; Toxicology
Constituent of chromosomes which stores the hereditary information of an organism in the form of a sequence of purine and pyrimidine bases: this information relates to the synthesis of proteins and ...
