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Definition of Neurotoxin

1. Noun. Any toxin that affects neural tissues.

Definition of Neurotoxin

1. Noun. (context: neuroscience toxicology) A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety. ¹

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Definition of Neurotoxin

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Neurotoxin

1. A substance, often exquisitely toxic, that inhibits neuronal function. Neurotoxins act typically against the sodium channel (e.g. TTX) or block or enhance synaptic transmission (curare, bungarotoxin). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Neurotoxin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Venom of Heloderma by Leo Loeb (1913)
"According to this view the antivenin prepared by the injection of cobra neurotoxin protects only against cobra neurotoxin, or perhaps, though very much less ..."

2. Therapeutic Gazette (1912)
"The action of the venom is briefly thus : neurotoxin' acts on the cells of the central nervous system, causing death by paralysis of the cardiac and ..."

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