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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
Describing a group of organisms more vulnerable to a given exposure than the majority of the population to which they belong.
Note: Susceptibility may reflect gender, age, physiological status, or genetic constitution of the organisms at risk.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Action of a substance after its re-absorption from the gut into the blood.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Active process of identification, investigation, and evaluation of various toxic effects in the community with a view to taking measures to reduce or control exposure(s) involving the substance(s) which produces these effects.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Acute, fulminating, potentially lethal disease of skeletal muscle that causes disintegration of striated muscle fibers as evidenced by myoglobin in the blood and urine.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Adjective used to describe animals carrying a gene introduced by micro-injecting DNA into the nucleus of the fertilized egg.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Adverse effects produced by exposure to light energy, especially those produced in the skin.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Adverse event following withdrawal from a person or animal of a drug to which they have been chronically exposed or on which they have become dependent.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Blocking transmission of impulses from the adrenergic (sympathetic) postganglionic fibers to effector organs or tissues.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Agent that induces cancer when administered to an animal or human being who has been exposed to a cancer initiator.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Agent that produces effects resembling those of impulses transmitted by the postganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
