time delay toxin activation (English, noun)
expansion: time delay toxin activation
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topics: medicine
oncology
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A process for producing a class of chemotherapy drugs which can be administered in a nontoxic form and, subsequent to a time delay, allows for a differential concentration in the target cancer or invasive tissues or cells, minimizing the toxicity to healthy cells, thereby reducing the adverse side effects of chemotherapy.
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