botox is a protein from clostridium botulinum that is used to treat facial wrinkles, muscle spasms, neck and back pain, and overactive sweat glands. what type of protein is botox?

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Protein is considered as a  Neurotoxin.

What do you mean by Neurotoxin ?

  • Neurotoxins can be considered as toxins that are destructive to nerve tissue.
  • They are an extensive class of exogenous chemical neurological insults that can adversely affect function in both developing and mature nervous tissue
  • The active botulinum toxin  occurs naturally as part of a high molecular weight complex containing the neurotoxin moiety and a set of complexing proteins of clostridial origin.
  • The proteins are also called neurotoxin-associated proteins.

Hence, in the above case it can be concluded that Protein is a neurotoxin.

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