TOXICOLOGY

TOXICOLOGY. Means the identification, detection, or characterization of the adverse effects (including, without limitation, cell death or damage, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity, apoptosis, and necrosis) on living systems resulting from the exposure of these systems to natural or synthetic substances including, but not limited to, the identification of such potential toxic substances and their putative mechanisms of action, and the detection of correlations between toxic responses to these... substances and changes in the genetic profiles of the living systems exposed to such substances. View More