Neurotoxin
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6 hydroxydopamine, conotoxin, ibotenate, marine toxin, methylphenyltetrahydropyridine, nerve gas, ototoxin, quinolinate
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batrachotoxin, botulinum toxin, excitatory aminoacid, experimental brain lesion, neuroprotectant, neurotoxicology
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Scope Note
toxin that is poisonous to or destroys nerve tissue.
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- 7% of patients experienced mild weakness of the arms; this did not last and got better without any treatment 1000 Because the neurotoxin is a protein, there is a small chance that 'flu-like' symptoms (tiredness, mild fever, muscle aches) may occur; these will disappear within a few days.
- Pure botulinum neurotoxin is absorbed from the stomach and small intestine and produces peripheral neuromuscular blockade.
- (Discuss) A neurotoxin is a toxin that acts specifically on nerve cells neurons usually by interacting with membrane proteins and ion channels.
- 5 When botulinum neurotoxin is exposed to proteases, either during cultivation of the Clostridium botulinum organism or subsequent to purification of the toxin, specific peptide bonds are cleaved or "nicked" resulting in the formation of a dichain molecule.
- UniProt Knowledgebase keyword: Neurotoxin DescriptionProteins, often exquisitely toxic, that inhibit neuronal function.
- 1 Science & Technology News Service Dietary neurotoxin linked to Alzheimer's 22:00 02 August 2004 NewScientist.
- Let us digress for a moment and discuss neurotoxins.
- neurotoxin Dictionary neurotoxin (nr'-tk'sn, nyr'-) n.
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