en·do·tox·in
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Definition of endotoxin
: a toxic heat-stable lipopolysaccharide substance present in the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria that is released from the cell upon lysis
Other Words from endotoxin
endotoxic
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adjective
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Lipopolysaccharide is a fancy scientific term for an endotoxin that is a major component of the walls of certain bacteria.
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Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
Study subjects injected with the endotoxin were given T-shirts to wear over a few hours to capture their body odor.
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Sarah Everts, Time, 21 July 2021
When a panel of people smelled the collection T-shirts, panelists found the body odor of people whose immune systems had been activated by the endotoxin to be more aversive than normal body odor.
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Sarah Everts, Time, 21 July 2021
Because the endotoxin wasn’t actually attached to a pathogen, the study subjects’ immune systems eventually settled down.
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Sarah Everts, Time, 21 July 2021
The product is refined and sold as endotoxin test kits to pharmaceutical companies.
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Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
While other tests exist like synthetic LAL and a human blood test, LAL bacterial endotoxin testing is the gold standard, Hoffmeister said.
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Doug Fraser, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
Half were trained in the Method, then they all were injected with an endotoxin that caused fevers, chills, and headaches.
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Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 27 Jan. 2020
Scientists like Thurman and those from Lonza use horseshoe crab blood to test for the presence of potentially lethal endotoxins.
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Maddy Lauria, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2019
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endotoxin
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en·do·tox·in
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Medical Definition of endotoxin
: a toxin of internal origin
specifically
: a poisonous substance present in bacteria (as the causative agent of typhoid fever) but separable from the cell body only on its disintegration — compare exotoxin
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