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effect on muscle systems
- In muscle disease: Toxic myopathies
elimination by organisms
- In excretion: Nonspecific mechanisms of waste disposal
environmental toxicology
- In environmental toxicology: Assessment and monitoring of toxic substances
human genetic disease
- In human genetic disease: Plants, fungi, and bacteria
intake of excess nutrients
- In nutritional disease: Nutrient toxicities
use in biological weapons
- In biological weapon: Biological warfare agents

foodstuffs

In nutritional disease: Toxins in foods

meats
- In meat processing: Food-poisoning microorganisms
starchy products
- In human nutrition: Starchy roots

production by

cnidarians
- In cnidarian: Food and feeding
frogs
- In frog and toad: Skin toxins
Gymnodinium
- In Gymnodinium
lepidopterans
- In lepidopteran: Protection against danger
poisonous animals and plants
- In poison: Poisons of biological origin
sponges
- In sponge: Oxygen uptake and excretion
termites
- In termite: Workers and soldiers

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Cross-references added.	Kara Rogers	Jul 11, 2022
	Modified link of Web site: Science Learning - Poisons and toxins.	Gloria Lotha	May 14, 2019
	Add new Web site: Science Learning - Poisons and toxins.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 21, 2016
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Toxin.	Parul Jain	Dec 27, 2011
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998