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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
An alteration in a gene distinct from the normal, wild-type allele that does not appear to have a deleterious effect.
Industry:Medical
1) A basic element found in nearly all organized tissues. It is a member of the alkaline earth family of metals with the atomic symbol Ca, atomic number 20, and atomic weight 40. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body and combines with phosphorus to form calcium phosphate in the bones and teeth. It is essential for the normal functioning of nerves and muscles and plays a role in blood coagulation (as factor IV) and in many enzymatic processes.
2) A silver-white bivalent metallic element that is an alkaline earth metal, occurs only in combination, and is an essential constituent of most plants and animals -- symbol Ca.
Industry:Medical
Malattia dell'apparato digerente che è provocata da una risposta immunitaria ad una proteina chiamata glutine e che si trova in frumento, segale, orzo e avena. La celiachia danneggia la parete dell'intestino tenue e interferisce con l'assorbimento delle sostanze nutritive del cibo. Una persona celiaca può diventare denutrita indipendentemente dalla quantità di cibo che consuma.
Industry:Medical
1) One of three fundamental types (with paracrine and endocrine) of cellular regulation by intercellular diffusible factors, where the diffusible factor exerts a regulatory influence primarily on the same cell that secreted it.
2) Organ systems involved in self-stimulation through cellular production of a factor and a specific receptor for it.
Industry:Medical
Having to do with the heart.
Definition from: Unified Medical Language System (Physician Data Query) at the National Library of Medicine.
Industry:Medical
In base excision repair, an altered base is removed by a DNA glycosylase enzyme, followed by excision of the resulting sugar phosphate. The small gap left in the DNA helix is filled in by the sequential action of DNA polymerase and DNA ligase.
Industry:Medical
A condition caused by compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel and characterized especially by weakness, pain, and disturbances of sensation in the hand and fingers -- abbreviation CTS.
Industry:Medical
1) A duct by which bile passes from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum.
2) A tube through which bile passes in and out of the liver.
Industry:Medical
The Eastern European Jewish population primarily from Germany, Poland, and Russia, as opposed to the Sephardic Jewish population primarily from Spain, parts of France, Italy, and North Africa.
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