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Discover LudwigThe word 'toxin' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a poison, either natural or artificial, that is harmful or deadly to living organisms. For example: The doctors concluded that the patient had died from ingesting a deadly toxin.
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toxin
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A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.
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When the team mixed their new membranes with cholera toxin, the interference pattern behaved precisely as predicted.
Tritium is not a bone-seeking toxin, he says.
This is a signalling molecule that is also, unfortunately for victims, the target of cholera toxin.
One of the most important is to chew up the toxin with custom-made resistance enzymes.
It locks on to the offending toxin and ejects it through the membrane.
The technique has even created edible cottonseed (for anyone who might want to try it) by eliminating cotton's gossypol toxin.
They don't want to look beautiful, he says, just "fresher and less worried".Typically, a swift shot of Botox, a toxin which freezes muscles, targets the deep forehead cleft which can descend on men over 40, especially if they spend all day frowning at a screen.
But now he is Dr Candia, a psychologist who specialises in the study of this strange condition.In this section DIY chromosomes Something new under the sun Sexual selection in plants Don't cramp my style Shovel face ReprintsThe standard treatment, injections of botulinum toxin (Botox) into the affected muscle, works by blocking nerve signals which tell the muscle to contract.
The toads release a lethal toxin from glands on their heads when they are attacked.
But macrophage signalling also involves SNAP-25, so Dr Chapman thinks he can use botulinum toxin to shut the cells up.The problem is that macrophages have no synaptotagmin on their surfaces.
The assassin would have been able to carry the toxin in a glass bottle knowing that its radioactivity would be readily absorbed by the vial itself.
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