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  2. Antitoxin - Wikipedia

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    Antitoxins are made within organisms, and can be injected into other organisms, including humans, to treat an infectious disease. This procedure involves injecting an animal with a safe amount of a particular toxin. The animal's body then makes the antitoxin needed to neutralize the toxin. Later, blood is withdrawn from the animal.

  3. Detoxification - Wikipedia

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    Under this theory, if toxins are too rapidly released without being safely eliminated (such as when metabolizing fat that stores toxins), they can damage the body and cause malaise. Such alternative therapies include contrast showers , detoxification foot pads , oil pulling , Gerson therapy , snake-stones , body cleansing , Scientology 's and ...

  4. Hemoperfusion - Wikipedia

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    Hemoperfusion or hæmoperfusion (see spelling differences) is a method of filtering the blood extracorporeally (that is, outside the body) to remove a toxin.As with other extracorporeal methods, such as hemodialysis (HD), hemofiltration (HF), and hemodiafiltration (HDF), the blood travels from the patient into a machine, gets filtered, and then travels back into the patient, typically by ...

  5. Neutralizing antibody - Wikipedia

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    This can be due to the antibodies statically interfering with the pathogens, or toxins attaching to host cell receptors. In case of a viral infection, NAbs can bind to glycoproteins of enveloped viruses or capsid proteins of non-enveloped viruses. Furthermore, neutralizing antibodies can act by preventing particles from undergoing structural ...

  6. Exotoxin - Wikipedia

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    The structure of these toxins allows for the development of specific vaccines and treatments. Certain compounds can be attached to the B unit, which is not, in general, harmful, which the body learns to recognize, and which elicits an immune response. This allows the body to detect the harmful toxin if it is encountered later, and to eliminate ...

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  8. Biological half-life - Wikipedia

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    In this way the oxidation of methanol to the toxic formaldehyde and formic acid in the human body can be prevented by giving an appropriate amount of ethanol to a person who has ingested methanol. Methanol is very toxic and causes blindness and death. A person who has ingested ethylene glycol can be treated in the same way. Half life is also ...

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