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Database of LD50 tables?
Hello,
I was looking around for a database or toxicology encyclopedia with standardized/easily comparable LD50 values of chemical compounds.
This on wikipedia surely looks nice, but is way limited in the compounds list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose#Examples
Thank you 
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DrPepper
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Why do you need it? The most practical thing to do would be looking up the LD50
value of each compound of interest individually.
Are you looking for chemicals with low LD50 values?
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Nicodem
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Here's a metasearch engine that searches trough all major toxicology databases: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
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Nicodem linked to the go-to for a lot of toxicology resources. Just bear in mind that LD50s are animal-specific, and extrapolating from one model
organism to another can be extremely problematic, so it's best not to much of that unless you are very specific on the mechanisms of toxicity and the
molecular and organ systems involved in your organism(s) of interest.
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Thanks for your replies
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