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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
recycling of waste
Biology; Toxicology
Process or method allowing for the recovery of some value from a waste, either as re-usable material or as energy.
translation
Biology; Toxicology
Process through which a polypeptide chain of amino acid molecules is generated as directed by the sequence of a particular messenger RNA sequence.
post-translational modification
Biology; Toxicology
Processes by which proteins are biochemically modified within a cell following their synthesis in the ribosomes.
splicing
Biology; Toxicology
Processes through which introns are removed from a messenger RNA prior to translation and the exons joined.
sympathomimetic
Biology; Toxicology
Producing effects resembling those of impulses transmitted by the postganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system.
adrenergic
Biology; Toxicology
Producing effects resembling those of impulses transmitted by the postganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system.
secondary metabolite
Biology; Toxicology
Product of biochemical processes other than the normal metabolic pathways, mostly produced in micro-organisms or plants after the phase of active growth and under conditions of nutrient deficiency.
