What Allows for Selective Toxicity in a Medication

question 21

Multiple Choice

What allows for selective toxicity in a medication?

• A) The medication acts against an essential component or biochemical process of microorganisms that does not exist in human cells.
• B) The medication is converted into a non-toxic form by the liver in people, but remains highly toxic in bacteria which cannot process the drug.
• C) The medication acts against an essential component or biochemical process of human cells that does not exist in microorganisms.
• D) Only some medications cross from the blood into the cerebrospinal fluid of humans.
• E) Some medications have a very extended half-life AND only some medications cross from the blood into the cerebrospinal fluid of humans.

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