Chemicals and Drugs

Biological Toxins

Specific, characterizable, poisonous chemicals, often PROTEINS, with specific biological properties, including immunogenicity, produced by microbes, higher plants (PLANTS, TOXIC), or ANIMALS.

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Specific, characterizable, poisonous chemicals, often PROTEINS, with specific biological properties, including immunogenicity, produced by microbes, higher plants (PLANTS, TOXIC), or ANIMALS.

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  • Toxins, Biological

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27 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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general or unspecified; prefer specifics; /antag permitted but consider also ANTITOXINS

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2006(1966)

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  1. D23.946w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Biological Toxins. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014118. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014118
  2. Biological Toxins. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxin
  3. Biological Toxins. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184651