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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basement membrane

Biology; Toxicology

Specialized layers of extra-cellular matrix (basal laminae) that separate epithelial tissue from underlying connective tissue: cancer cells must break through the basement membrane in order to ...

bilirubin

Biology; Toxicology

Orange-yellow pigment, a breakdown product of heme-containing proteins (hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytochromes), which circulates in the blood plasma bound to albumin or as water soluble glucuronide ...

clearance (general)

Biology; Toxicology

Product of the concentration co of a component in an output system and the volume flow rate of the output system divided by the concentration ci of this component in the input system. Note: The term ...

conjugate in biochemistry

Biology; Toxicology

1. Chemical species produced in living organisms by covalently linking two chemical moieties from different sources. 2. Material produced by attaching two or more substances together, e.g. a ...

adjuvant

Biology; Toxicology

1. In pharmacology, a substance added to a drug to speed or increase the action of the main component. 2. In immunology, a substance (such as aluminum hydroxide) or an organism (such as killed ...

B lymphocyte

Biology; Toxicology

Type of lymphocyte which synthesizes and secretes antibodies in response to the presence of a foreign substance or one identified by it as foreign. The protective effect can be mediated to a certain ...