LD50ID50
LD50ID50 refers to two distinct but related concepts in toxicology and pharmacology. LD50 stands for lethal dose 50, which is the dose of a substance required to kill 50% of a tested population of animals, usually rodents, under controlled experimental conditions. It is a widely used measure of acute toxicity. The lower the LD50 value, the more toxic the substance. For example, if a substance has an LD50 of 10 mg/kg, it means that 10 milligrams of that substance per kilogram of body weight will be lethal to half of the test subjects.
ID50, on the other hand, stands for infectious dose 50. This metric is used in microbiology and
Both LD50 and ID50 are statistical measures derived from dose-response studies and are essential for understanding