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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.
Storage compartment from which a substance may be released with subsequent biological effects.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Structural moiety that upon metabolic activation exerts toxic effects: the presence of a toxicophoric group indicates only potential and not necessarily actual toxicity of a drug or other substances.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Structure which terminates the arm of a chromosome.
Note: A similar term ‘telomer’, with a different meaning is found in the IUPAC Gold Book
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Study of malformations, monstrosities or serious deviations from normal development in organisms.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Study of the influence of hereditary factors on the effects of potentially toxic substances on individual organisms.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Study of the mechanisms underlying complex biological processes as integrated systems of many, diverse, interacting components.
Note: It involves (1) collection of large sets of experimental data (by high-throughput technologies and/or by mining the literature of reductionist molecular biology and biochemistry), (2) proposal of mathematical models that might account for at least some significant aspects of this data set, (3) accurate computer solution of the mathematical equations to obtain numerical predictions, and (4) assessment of the quality of the model by comparing numerical simulations with the experimental data.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Study of the nonheritable adverse effects of substances on male and female reproductive function or capacity and on resultant progeny.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Subjective perception of the gravity or importance of the risk based on a person's knowledge of different risks and the moral, economic, and political judgment of their implications.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Subset of a population selected according to some important characteristic.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Subset of units of a population that is arrived at by selecting units such that each possible unit has a fixed and known probability of selection.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
