Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

Toxicology and Xenobiotics

Toxicology is the logical investigation of unfriendly impacts that happen in living life forms because of chemicals. These substances may create dangerous impacts in living life forms incorporating unsettling influence in development designs, inconvenience, ailment, and demise. LD50 is a typical term utilized as a part of toxicology, which alludes to the measurement of a substance that showcases danger in that it murders half of a test populace.

A xenobiotic is a remote compound substance found inside a creature that is not normally delivered by or anticipated that would be available inside. In particular, medications, for example, antimicrobials are xenobiotics in people in light of the fact that the human body does not deliver them itself, nor are they a player in an ordinary nourishment.