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Cytotoxins

"Cytotoxins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Substances that are toxic to cells; they may be involved in immunity or may be contained in venoms. These are distinguished from CYTOSTATIC AGENTS in degree of effect. Some of them are used as CYTOTOXIC ANTIBIOTICS. The mechanism of action of many of these are as ALKYLATING AGENTS or MITOSIS MODULATORS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cytotoxins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cytotoxins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012
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