BIOC65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tricyclic, Arrow Poison, Toxicon
10 Oct 2016
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Goal: remember some core pieces of info for life! Real info and real expertise is not obtained from google. It begins and builds up slowly, step by step. Toxicology brings together chemistry, fundamental biology, microbiology, pharmacology and a lot of medicine. They have a genome that is about 3 times greater than ours. More than 50% of active ingredients that are prescribed in medications come from plants! arrow; toxicon pharmacon= arrow poison. Toxicology comes from the words toxon= bow (in greek) and toxicon= Don"t leave liquids in bottles or containers for too long (cid:523)even if its water(cid:524) because there will be an exchange of material from the inner sidewalls of the container with the liquid. Compounds will be leaching out much faster when the temperature is higher. Compounds released, as fat components drip on the charcoal might be very dangerous to you. Harmane for instance is a tricyclic compound (3 ring structures).
