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cytotoxin

NOUN
  1. any substance that has a toxic effect on cells

How To Use cytotoxin In A Sentence

  • While remaining innocuous to the normal tissues, the prodrug is converted to the cytotoxin by the enzyme localised at the tumour.
  • Because bioreductive drugs are activated to form highly effective cytotoxins under hypoxic conditions, they can be used to inactivate hypoxic tumor cells that are refractory to the direct cytotoxicity of hypericin-PDT.
  • H. pylori (especially east-Asian cytotoxin-associated gene [cagA] - positive strains) might carry an increased risk of developing gastric cancer, but currently identified cagA genotypes in the Asia-Pacific are not associated with cancer. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Apoptosis can be induced by immune cells and cytotoxins, and by changes in homeostatic signals.
  • While remaining innocuous to the normal tissues, the prodrug is converted to the cytotoxin by the enzyme localised at the tumour.
  • GenSpera's has combined a plant-derived cytotoxin with a delivery system that releases the drug only within the tumor. San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal
  • A study has demonstrated that cytotoxin production was the most common virulence factor compared to adhesive and invasive ability.
  • One cell line responded to genotoxins and the other cell line responded to cytotoxins.
  • Therefore, the present study is to validate the coadministration effects of a neuronal noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist ketamine and astrocytic cytotoxin L-alpha-aminoadipate (LAA) on spinal nerve ligation (SNL) - induced neuropathic pain. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • If cytotoxins have no ‘accomplice’ in the cell interior, chemotherapy is usually destined to fail - chemoresistance is the result.
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