Threshold dose

The threshold dose is that dose of a drug at which a just barely detectable biological effect can be recognized. She is z. B. for toxic effects indicated by the LD ₅ , at which 5% lethality is observed.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Ebel and Hermann J. Roth (editors): Lexikon der Pharmazie , Georg Thieme Verlag, 1987, p. 588, ISBN 3-13-672201-9 .