neurotoxic

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The reviews concluded: "The weight of existing evidence s that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption … No credible evidence was found that aspartame is carcinogenic, neurotoxic, or has any other adverse effect on health when consumed even at quantities many times the established ADI [acceptable daily intake] levels."

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  1. Causing the destruction of nerve-cells by means of neurotoxins. It is possible by replacement experiments in vitro to demonstrate the occupation of the receptors by the neurotoxin of serum and the consequent exclusion of the neurotoxic constituent of venom. Science, July 3, 1903, p. 12.

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  • Concern is thus not only for the 'neurotoxic' aspect of mercury in fillings, an increasingly understood hazard, but because fillings themselves act as antennas in the presence of electromagnetic fields from cell phones and cell towers, wi-fi networks, portable phones, and other sources of radiofrequency radiation. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • "The vascular changes occurred in the absence of neurotoxic or degenerative changes." —  NutraIngredients RSS
  • Since previous studies have suggested that the α-syn ring-like structures might form pores in the membrane that could be responsible for the neurotoxic effects of α-syn oligomers —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Extrasynaptic glutamate can also affect neural function and may be neurotoxic, but whether and how extracellular glutamate is regulated across sleep-waking states is unclear. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I think they're using computer outgas to sicken us. did you know computer outgas is neurotoxic, immunotoxic, endocrine and hormone disrupting … so basiically it mades us fat, dumb, and sick. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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  1. Greek νεῦρον, nerve, + English toxic.
 

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