Sentences with phrase «specific type of toxin»

Neurotoxins are a specific type of toxin that acts specifically on nerve cells, Aflatoxins are definitely bad things, but they are not neurotoxins.

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As Opitz explains, stress in the form of the antibiotic activates a specific type of SOS function in the bacteria, which triggers countermeasures and promotes toxin production (while the antibiotic also reduces overall growth rates).

When lymphocytes and plasma cells are the predominant cell types the most likely underlying causes are sensitivities to dietary components (wheat gluten is one example), parasites, bacterial toxins, cancers, heritable tendencies (occurs in Basenjis and wheaten terriers), and again a big group of dogs where a specific underlying cause isn't identifiable, or the idiopathic cases.

The original point of environmentalism was buffering nature from all human intrusions and toxins, not just fighting a specific type of pollution (that allows pseudo-green machines to exist).