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toxic

Pertaining to, due to or of the nature of a poison or toxin, manifesting the symptoms of severe infection.


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Why ?

amino acids cannot be stored as the nitrogen is toxic.They must be deaminated and excreted as urea. Glycogen and triglyceride are storage of energy.

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by mavis
Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:32 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Why ?
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Views: 437

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... after the atmosphere contained enough oxygen. Being able to utilize oxygen gave also an enormous competitive edge because oxygen was most likely toxic to early organisms relying on anaerobic metabolism, but that alone would not drive evolution towards more complex life forms - just towards a ...

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by biohazard
Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:21 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Is evolution as simple as we think?
Replies: 11
Views: 2125

Conversion of drug concentration from in vitro study to mice

... an effect in ___ cell line is 100nM, how do I calculate the dose to be given to mice from it? Converesly, if I know that the optimal nonseverly toxic dose of reagent ___ given to a mouse is 150 mg/kg, how do I calculate an equivalent concentration to be given to ___ cells for viability assays? ...

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by MPBPhD
Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:27 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Conversion of drug concentration from in vitro study to mice
Replies: 1
Views: 647

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... to the lack of fibre in that kind of diet, which in turn slows down the passage of food in the gut and thus the gut is exposed to some possibly toxic or carcinogenic byproducts of digestion. It could be so that increasing fibre in one's diet negates this phenomenon by making the gut contents ...

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by wildfunguy
Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Things that cause cancer (in modern humans who live longer)
Replies: 4
Views: 771

Things that cause cancer (in modern humans who live longer)

... to the lack of fibre in that kind of diet, which in turn slows down the passage of food in the gut and thus the gut is exposed to some possibly toxic or carcinogenic byproducts of digestion. It could be so that increasing fibre in one's diet negates this phenomenon by making the gut contents ...

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by biohazard
Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:05 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Things that cause cancer (in modern humans who live longer)
Replies: 4
Views: 771
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