What's the difference between nontoxic and toxic?

Nontoxic


Definition:

  • (a.) Not toxic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A continuously protective, nontoxic, oral model of chronic treatment with primidone was developed in the rat.
  • (2) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (3) It was concluded that ochratoxin A was cleaved into the nontoxic ochratoxin alpha and phenylalanine by the contents from all but the abomasum.
  • (4) In cell cultures, replication of different strains of HSV type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 was inhibited at nontoxic drug concentrations.
  • (5) The relative nontoxicity of a somatostatin analogue such as Somatuline suggests that chronic or maintenance therapy of slow-growing prostate cancers may be both feasible and acceptable in a clinical setting.
  • (6) We determined alterations in plasma and red-cell electrolyte concentrations associated with digoxin administration in 11 children in heart failure, 24 nontoxic patients receiving maintenance digoxin and 11 children in whom digoxin toxicity developed.
  • (7) Although therapy for FHV-1 infections of cats is often difficult, the recent development of nontoxic antiviral drugs that demonstrate considerable efficacy against FHV-1 offers hope for improved therapeutic success in the future.
  • (8) The nontoxic component of L toxin was 12S and possessed a hemagglutinin activity of about 0.5% that of type A crystalline toxin; that of M toxin was 7S and possessed no hemagglutinin activity.
  • (9) They are relatively nontoxic but share with penicillins a tendency to elicit hypersensitivity reactions.
  • (10) Administration of toxic RSE, but not nontoxic MPL, after the establishment of toxoplasma infection significantly shortened the survival time of mice.
  • (11) SAM is a nontoxic physiological metabolite virtually free of side effects.
  • (12) Human placental chorion is thus capable of releasing in vitro a nontoxic heat-resistant factor with protein characteristics that reversibly inhibits processes associated with the early stages of lymphoid cell triggering.
  • (13) The TM sequence-derived synthetic peptide blocked in a nontoxic and sequence-specific manner the release of murine leukemia virus from two chronically infected cell lines.
  • (14) Menadiol, menadione, and two structurally related congeners were equitoxic to HLN cells, but sodium metabisulfite (present in menadiol solutions as a preservative) was nontoxic.
  • (15) Intravital staining of islets with neutral red is a specific, nontoxic technique for labeling islets of various species.
  • (16) These data demonstrate that DMDP but not VEP can effectively restore the in vivo intracellular accumulation of DOX in resistant cells at achievable nontoxic plasma concentrations.
  • (17) Thus, as a result of preparative ultracentrifugation and gel-chromatography it was postible to divide the toxic and the nontoxic protective components of Ps.
  • (18) The expression of the diphtheria tox228 gene encoding the nontoxic, serologically related CRM228 mutant diphtheria toxin has been analyzed in Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Escherichia coli.
  • (19) Evaluation of 25, 50, and 100 mug of pimaricin given intravitreally to albino rabbits with Aspergillus endophthalmitis revealed that 25 mug of pimaricin, while nontoxic to the retina, was ineffective in inhibiting the fungal process.
  • (20) Activation of human neutrophils with opsonized particles in the presence of a nontoxic dose of 1-naphthol resulted in inhibition of superoxide anion production but not of the phagocytotic activity of the cells.

Toxic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Toxical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (2) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
  • (3) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (4) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
  • (5) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
  • (6) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
  • (7) Previous studies have not evaluated the potential for oxygen toxicity at 9.5 psia.
  • (8) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
  • (9) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
  • (10) The results confirm studies performed in our laboratory on cytotoxicity and on functional membrane proteins of fungal and mammalian cells [1,2], suggesting a common mechanism of toxicity by the action of hydrophobic xenobiotics on biomembranes.
  • (11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (12) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
  • (13) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
  • (14) Diminished CMD was most common with AR (7 of 12) but was also seen with acute tubular necrosis (2 of 6) and cyclosporin toxicity (2 of 3).
  • (15) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
  • (16) Research must continue to determine the optimal regimen that suppresses testosterone activity with the least amount of toxicity.
  • (17) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (18) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (19) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
  • (20) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.

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