Botulinum toxin may help relieve chronic pain ARTHRITIS is the bane of millions of lives.

肉毒杆菌毒素也许能够帮助缓解慢性疾病的痛苦关节炎是数百万人的噩梦。

Just how deadly is the botulinum toxin?

讲了半天，到底肉毒杆菌有多毒呢？

It does stand for botulinum toxin after all.

毕竟它也是肉毒杆菌毒素。

Second autopsy shows it wasn't tetanus that poisoned Connie Prince, it was botulinum toxin.

第二次尸检显示康妮·普林斯并非死于破伤风菌而是肉毒杆菌毒素。

Until his retirement he supplied all the botulinum toxin used in scientific and medical research in the nation.

退休之前，他向全国所有的科学和医学研究提供肉毒毒素。

The really dangerous part of the bacteria is the botulinum toxin they produce when they grow into mature bacteria.

这种细菌的真正可怕之处在于它们在成长为成熟细菌过程中产出的肉毒菌的毒素。

But by far, the most lethal toxin known to mankind is Botulinum toxin, which is commercially sold as Botox.

但目前为止，人类已知最致命的毒素是肉毒杆菌毒素，商业售卖上被称为保妥适。

But macrophage signalling also involves SNAP-25, so Dr Chapman thinks he can use botulinum toxin to shut the cells up.

但是巨噬细胞的信号通路中也包括SNAP-25，因此查普曼博士想，他能够用肉毒素来关闭这些免疫细胞。

But a piece of research published this week in Biochemistry, by Edwin Chapman of the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues, offers arthritis sufferers hope from a strange quarter: botulinum toxin.

但是由威斯康辛大学埃德文? 查普曼博士以及他的同事们在本周生物化学杂志上的发表的一项研究，为关节炎患者提供了希望：肉毒杆菌毒素。

Botulinum toxin This nasty toxin’s claim to fame is that it is used to make older looking people look younger when used in what we know as Botox.

肉毒杆菌毒素这种令人讨厌的毒素之所以出名，是因为它被用于我们所知的肉毒杆菌毒素中， 使看起来年长的人看起来更年轻。

LD50 is measured in a ratio of milligrams of toxin to kilograms of bodyweight, and in the case of the botulinum toxin it's about one nanogram, a billionth of a gram, per kilogram.

半数致死剂量一般的单位是，每公斤体重需要使用几毫克的某物质（mg/kg）但毒王表示藐视毫克单位，肉毒杆菌毒的 LD50 是——每公斤体重 1 奈克（1ng/kg），奈克是一克的十亿分之一。

Sometimes muscle relaxants are given or botulinum toxin is injected into certain muscles to reduce hypertonicity and relax the muscles, which can both help reduce pain associated with hypertonus and also help fit patients with specific orthotic braces.

有时为了降低肌张力放松肌肉，可对相应肌肉注射肌肉松弛剂或肉毒杆菌，这两种方法既可以减轻肌张力过高引起的疼痛，也能帮助患者适应矫正器。