CYTOTOXIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytotoxin mean? 

• CYTOTOXIN (noun)
  The noun CYTOTOXIN has 1 sense:

1. any substance that has a toxic effect on cells

  Familiarity information: CYTOTOXIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYTOTOXIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance that has a toxic effect on cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("cytotoxin" is a kind of...):

toxin (a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cytotoxin"):

enterotoxin (a cytotoxin specific for the cells of the intestinal mucosa)

Derivation:

cytotoxic (of or relating to substances that are toxic to cells)

 Context examples 

Also called interleukin-4 PE38KDEL cytotoxin and interleukin-4 PE38KDEL immunotoxin.

(NBI-3001, NCI Dictionary)

Also called interleukin-4 PE38KDEL cytotoxin and NBI-3001.

(interleukin-4 PE38KDEL immunotoxin, NCI Dictionary)

Interleukin-4 PE38KDEL cytotoxin is a type of recombinant chimeric protein.

(interleukin-4 PE38KDEL cytotoxin, NCI Dictionary)

Citatuzumab bogatox binds to EpCAM, delivering modified bouganin cytotoxin directly to EpCam-positive tumor cells, which may result in the inhibition of tumor cell protein synthesis and tumor cell death.

(Citatuzumab Bogatox, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion protein immunotoxin consisting of a humanized, single-chain monoclonal antibody Fab fragment specific for the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) conjugated with a modified bouganin cytotoxin with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Citatuzumab Bogatox, NCI Thesaurus)