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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.
Contributors in Toxicology
Toxicology
Toxicogenetics
Biology; Toxicology
Study of the influence of hereditary factors on the effects of potentially toxic substances on individual organisms.
Teratology
Biology; Toxicology
Study of malformations, monstrosities or serious deviations from normal development in organisms.
Reproductive toxicology
Biology; Toxicology
Study of the nonheritable adverse effects of substances on male and female reproductive function or capacity and on resultant progeny.
Systems biology
Biology; Toxicology
Study of the mechanisms underlying complex biological processes as integrated systems of many, diverse, interacting components. Note: It involves (1) collection of large sets of experimental data (by ...
Summation (in neurophysiology)
Biology; Toxicology
Process of addition of separate postsynaptic responses caused by stimuli that are adjacent in time and space. Note: Excitation of a synapse evokes a graded potential change in the postsynaptic ...
Resorption (in biology)
Biology; Toxicology
Process in which the components of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergo lysis and assimilation. Note: Specifically in developmental toxicology, term applied to the ...
Toxicodynamics
Biology; Toxicology
Process of interaction of potentially toxic substances with target sites, and the biochemical and physiological consequences leading to adverse effects.
