An antitoxin is a substance that helps fight off and neutralize harmful toxins in the body, protecting us from their damaging effects.
Sentences with «antitoxin»
Wood and his colleagues characterized the first toxin antitoxin system in a biofilm. (sciencedaily.com)
An international team of researchers is looking at compounds that attack bacteria's ability to go dormant and have found the first oxygen - sensitive toxin antitoxin system. (sciencedaily.com)
In 1925, the city of Nome, AK was stricken by a diphtheria epidemic and dog teams of Siberians led heroic «serum runs» to retrieve antitoxins. (akc.org)