Detoxification lends itself to the use of powerful rhetorical devices and imagery, like diagrams of the body getting flushed of toxins, which can play on this intuition.

This was a clue that pertussislike toxins are widespread among pathogenic E. coli, but it was unknown whether the E. coli pertussislike toxin, or EcPlt, works the same way that pertussis toxin does.

The Native Antigen Company has announced the release of a highly purified Bordetella pertussis toxin. The product has been developed in response to the increasing pressure on the IVD industry to ...

Pertussis toxin is able to modify only one specific amino acid in its human G protein target; if that amino acid changes, the G protein is no longer affected by the pertussis toxin.

It is true that some toxins can dissolve in sweat, but only a trivial amount; Peake said 1 percent of toxins at most get removed from the body through sweat.

Roberto Furlan, working with Gianvito Martino and colleagues, injected human Aβ42 into six- to eight-week-old female mice, following the dosing regime and schedule as described previously. In a second ...