The endotoxin targets the heart, affecting its ability to pump and also causes blood vessels throughout the body to leak. As every vessel starts to hemorrhage, major organs like the lungs and ...

THE amount of endotoxin required to produce fatal traumatic shock by the intracerebral route is roughly one-twentieth of that required by the intravenous route 1. The smaller dose is harmless when ...

A pair of identical twins conducted a wild experiment to show what the real impact that binge drinking has on the human body ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The endotoxin moves into the blood stream leading to a systemic immune response. Tight junction integrity is altered by the phosphoylation state of the proteins occludin and claudins, and may be ...

The blood contains a clotting factor that points to the presence of bacterial endotoxins, and it's been a gift to medicine and humans. It's also taken a toll on the crabs, which in some parts of ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing to accelerate the adoption of synthetic alternatives to ...