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What is a sensitizer?

What is a sensitizer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any agent that sensitizes something.
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It was minimally irritating to the rabbit eye and non-irritating to rabbit skin, and it was a dermal sensitizer in guinea pigs.
Avandia is an insulin sensitizer that works by helping the body use its own insulin more effectively.
Aloe emodin is an anthraquinone derivative similar in structure to the known photodynamic sensitizer hypericin.
Another top sensitizer is artificial colors and dyes, which are petroleum-based.
The photodynamic effect is accomplished mainly through the formation of singlet oxygen in the quenching of the sensitizer triplet state by ambient molecular oxygen.
Traditional test methods used for regulation of sensitizers have focused on determining whether or not a substance is a sensitizer.

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