Rat LD50 values were taken from the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS) database [55] and cytotoxicity values were taken from the public National Cancer Institute (NCI ...

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which is known as the "Median Lethal Dose", shortened to LD50. The lower the lethal dose, the greater the toxicity of the substance and the "Lowest Lethal Dose" describes the lowest possible dose ...

A single bite from this beast contains enough toxic venom to take out 65 adult humans. One of the ways snake venom toxicity is measured is by an LD50 score. This, according to A-Z Animals, means that ...

Signs must be posted at entrances to laboratories and other rooms where human, animal, or plant pathogens, or biological toxins that are listed as select agents or that have a LD50 for a mammalian ...

For instance, the value yielding a 50% response rate (called the ED50 or LD50) is often used. The INVERSECL option requests that confidence limits be computed for the value of the independent variable ...

Experiments requiring IBC and NIH approval (NIH Guidelines section III-B) Experiments in this category include the deliberate formation of recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid containing genes for ...

The Mac TV reportedly went by two names internally: Peter Pan and LD50 (a medical term for lethal dose at 50 percent). The Mac TV failed to grow up and only sold 1,000 units.

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Specific areas covered include: the major toxicants, both organic and inorganic: sources, pathways and fate of major toxicants; specific effects on organisms (including humans); physiological & ...

In this paper, a suite of three QSAR models is developed to identify compounds that are likely to (a) exhibit cytotoxic behavior against cancer cells, (b) exhibit high rat LD50 values (low ...