Sentence examples for environmental toxin from inspiring English sources

Exposure to an environmental toxin?

Lead is an environmental toxin, and current techniques to detect it are complicated or costly.

Scientists have suspected since the middle of the 19th century that an environmental toxin might be involved in Parkinson's disease, Dr. Tanner said.

"The book doesn't ever really say there's a relationship you can establish between a particular illness and environmental toxin," said Ms. Antonetta.

During my many travels to developing countries, might I have been exposed to some kind of environmental toxin?

His extensive televised travels took in the western Pacific island of Guam, famed in neurology for its high prevalence of a complex neurodegenerative disorder that Sacks and others have attributed to exposure to an environmental toxin.

Although a family history of a certain cancer or exposure to a known environmental toxin like tobacco are certainly germane, they still do not fully explain why that particular individual fell ill.

The crucial exception, and now the most widely accepted cause, is aristolochic acid, an environmental toxin from seeds of the aristolochia plant, which has been shown to be present in the kidney and urothelial tissues of patients with BEN.

Chromi": E. coli that is programmable to turn one of five colors when it detects a certain concentration of an environmental toxin.

The ability of this substance to destroy neurons suggests that an environmental toxin similar to MPTP may be responsible for Parkinson disease.

Type 1 diabetes has a strong genetic link, but most cases are the result of an autoimmune disorder, possibly set off by a viral infection, foreign protein, or environmental toxin.