toxicology
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Toxicology is the science that studies how substances—from chemicals to drugs to poisons—affect living organisms and cause harm. It matters because toxicologists help determine what levels of exposure to different substances are safe for people and the environment, which informs medicine, regulation, and public health decisions.
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Research
297,037 papers- Toxicology and Analytical Chemistry.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice · 2023
- Application and development trends of network toxicology in the safety assessment of traditional Chinese medicine.Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2025
- Analytical toxicology.EXS · 2010
- [Deductive Toxicology and Bioorganometallics].Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan · 2023
- History of toxicology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2024
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Basic principles
- Testing methods
- ''In vivo'' model organism
- ''In vitro'' methods
- Dose response complexities
- Types
- Toxicology as a profession
- Requirements
- Duties
- Compensation
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|255px|A toxicologist working in a lab (United States, 2008)
Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants. The relationship between dose and its effects on the exposed organism is of high significance in toxicology. Factors that influence chemical toxicity include the dosage, duration of exposure (whether it is acute or chronic), route of exposure, species, age, sex, and environment. Toxicologists are experts on poisons and poisoning. There is a movement for evidence-based toxicology as part of the larger movement towards evidence-based practices. Toxicology is currently contributing to the field of cancer research, since some toxins can be used as drugs for killing tumor cells. One prime example of this is ribosome-inactivating proteins, tested in the treatment of leukemia.