In the bloodstream, lead disappears quickly, but bones can harbor the toxin for decades.
There is no shortage of fad food books blaming one or other "toxin" for all our fleshly dolours.
Then a biochemist who had isolated and purified a strain of botulinum toxin for potential military use as a biological weapon sent Dr. Scott a sample.
Over the next twenty years, he and another researcher studied the use of the toxin for cross-eyed humans, and, in the late seventies, Scott formed a company, Oculinum, based on his research.
The crested rat is now anatomically and behaviorally dependent on tree toxin for protection, and should Acokanthera go extinct, its little chiseler would soon follow.
The binding of an antibody to a toxin, for example, can neutralize the poison simply by changing its chemical composition; such antibodies are called antitoxins.
Morrison – never one to shy away from metaphor – this morning accused Labor of using taxes as bullets in Bill Shorten's "war on business": "Going forward he will continue to seek to attack growth with these toxic taxes that will be a toxin for our growth going forward".
Before the Food and Drug Administration approved Botox, a muscle-relaxing toxin, for cosmetic use in 2002, it was used as a medical treatment for neuromuscular and eye disorders.
Botulinus toxin, for example, is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and is capable of inducing weakness and paralysis when present in underprocessed, nonacidic canned foods or in other foods containing the spores.
Botulinum toxin for the treatment of neuropathic pain.
Only 7.1% of patients had previously received botulinum toxin for treatment of headache (Table 4).
