Defensive biology

Jeffery, C. R. (1985), Attacks on the Insanity Defense Biological Psychiatry and New Perspectives on Criminal Behavior, Charles Thomas, Springfield, IL. 

Lawrence Dubois joined SRI International as vice president and head of the Physical Sciences Division in March 2000. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at DARPA, finishing his tenure there as director of the Defense Sciences Office, which is responsible for an annual investment of approximately 300 million toward the development of technologies for biological warfare defense, biology, defense applications of advanced mathematics, and materials and devices for new military capabilities. 

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Measure F Declaration of past activities in offensive and/or defensive biological R D programmes since 1 January 1946. 

Biological Defense - Biological defense comprises the methods, plans and procedures involved in establishing and executing defensive measures against. 

Leitenherg, Milton. Distinguishing Offensive from Defensive Biological Weapons Research. Critical Reviews in Microbiology 29, no. 3 (2003) 223-57. 

Biochemical Reactions. The quinones in biological systems play varied and important roles (21,22). In insects they are used for defense purposes, and the vitamin K family members, eg, vitamin [11104-38-4] (32) and vitamin [11032-49-8] (33), which are based on 2-meth5l-l,4-naphthoquiaone, are blood-clotting agents (see Vitamins, vitamin k). 

Biological Antioxidant Models. Tea extracts, tea polyphenol fractions, and purified catechins have all been shown to be effective antioxidants in biologically-based model systems. A balance between oxidants and antioxidants is critical for maintenance of homeostasis. Imbalances between free radicals and antioxidants may be caused by an increased production of free radicals or decreased effectiveness of the antioxidants within the reaction system. These imbalances can be caused by the radicals overwhelming the antioxidants within the system, or by an excess of antioxidants leading to a prooxidant functionaHty (105—118). When antioxidant defense systems are consistently overwhelmed by oxidative reactions, significant damage can... 

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The biological response line for acute respiratory disease is a dose-response curve, which for a constant concentration becomes a duration-response curve. The shape of such a curve reflects the ability of the human body to cope with short-term, ambient concentration respiratory exposures and the overwhelming of the body s defenses by continued exposure. 

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