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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 08:47, 18 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

not to be confused with poison?

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Should a Template:Distinguish be added so that the top reads

Not to be confused with poison.

- just a suggestion as these are easily confused (and the poison page does the same).

Pr0m37h3u$ 11:47, 16 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Toads venom

Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It could be useful if someone knowledgeable could make paragraph about 'toad venom' here with good sources.

It is almost always refered to in literature as venom but also seems to fit at least general knowledge definition of poison not venom.

Is it that it's commonly mislabeled as venom or does it fit real venom definition but just seems not to?

I can't solve it myself, so I just write here it would be beneficial. Coursory google search does not lead me anywhere with this question.

46.112.96.132 (talk) 08:46, 8 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Necrotoxins vs cytotoxins

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

These two appear to mean the same thing. Necrosis is the unplanned death of cells. For cytotoxins it says "individual cells" but in a bite or sting it may affect a great number of cells. Note also that the main reference is focused on neurotoxins and "necrotoxin" is not even a frequent term in literature. I'm an engineer, not a biologist, so I may be missing a key point. Could someone explain? Would a proteolytic venom be an example of necrotoxin that is not also cytotoxin at the same time? Aecur (talk) 06:01, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

You're right that necrotoxin is a less common term, and that a necrotoxin is a subtype of cytotoxin. That means that trying to find a necrotoxin subclass that isn't cytotoxic isn't going to go anywhere. I'll rearrange and reword to make this clear. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:51, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Talk:Venom

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

not to be confused with poison?

Toads venom

Necrotoxins vs cytotoxins