cytotoxin
/ˌsīdəˈtäksən
/noun
A substance toxic to cells.Apoptosis can be induced by immune cells and cytotoxins, and by changes in homeostatic signals....
- If cytotoxins have no ‘accomplice’ in the cell interior, chemotherapy is usually destined to fail - chemoresistance is the result.
- One cell line responded to genotoxins and the other cell line responded to cytotoxins.