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Any toxin that affects neural tissues
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neurotoxin
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Neurotoxins are toxins that are poisonous or destructive to nerve tissue (causing neurotoxicity ). Neurotoxins are an extensive class of exogenous chemical neurological insults that can adversely affect function in both developing and mature nervous tissue. ...
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n. (context neuroscience toxicology English) A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.
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n. any toxin that affects neural tissues [syn: neurolysin ]
Usage examples of neurotoxin.
Totuus was found in his system, but the NYU neurologists believe he had another compound in his bloodstream that combined with the Totuus to form a neurotoxin specific to the Broca area.
The neurotoxin venom is pumped in with one contraction of the muscular tail, and the titanothere topples to the ground with a crash, shaking the forest.
When he handled the various weapons, Fairhaven absorbed quite a cocktail of poisons through his skin: neurotoxins and other fast-acting systemics, no doubt.
Neurotoxins basically cause the roach to twitch itself to death, in the course of which it will frequently kick over on its back, there to flail helplessly until the end comes.
He'd been a young lieutenant at Dugway Proving Grounds when they'd had the well-publicized accident with GB, a persistent nerve agent that had blown too far and slaughtered a few hundred sheep-and neurotoxins were not a pretty death, even for sheep.
For the original strains of the bug had a novel property: they were a treasure house of neurotoxins.