Toxins as biological warfare agents
A.S.B. Bhaskar; Bhavana Sant Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India
Abstract
Natural toxins or biotoxins are substances produced by one organism that elicit their toxic action on another organism. Toxins are extremely poisonous products of the metabolism of living organisms like bacteria, plants, animals, and fungi. Biotoxins are individual chemical compounds of natural origin. These are biologically active chemical compounds or compounds produced by a specific chemical mechanism in a living organism. Chemically, they are a wide variety of complex structures like proteins, cyclic peptides, alkaloids, etc. After knowing the ...
Get Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
