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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.
1) Cells specialized to detect and transduce light.
2) A receptor for light stimuli.
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1) Cells that look abnormal under a microscope but are not cancer.
2) Variation in somatotype (as in degree of ectomorphy, endomorphy, or mesomorphy) from one part of a human body to another.
3) Abnormal growth or development (as of organs or cells); broadly: abnormal anatomic structure due to such growth.
Industry:Health care
1) Changes in the regulation of the expression of gene activity without alteration of genetic structure.
2) Of, relating to, or produced by epigenesis.
3) Relating to, being, or involving a modification in gene expression that is independent of the DNA sequence of a gene (epigenetic carcinogenesis) (epigenetic inheritance).
Industry:Health care
1) Changes of a cell that effects its morphology and physiology through natural or artificial mechanisms or sources; typically pathologic; do not confuse with cell differentiation.
2) A process by which the genetic material carried by an individual cell is altered by incorporation of exogenous DNA into its genome.
3) The change that a normal cell undergoes as it becomes malignant.
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1) chemicals whose molecular or ionic structure includes an unpaired ("free") electron, usually conferring high reactivity; in biological systems, most free radicals contain oxygen.
2) Highly reactive molecules with an unsatisfied electron valence pair. Free radicals are produced in both normal and pathological processes. They are proven or suspected agents of tissue damage in a wide variety of circumstances including radiation, damage from environment chemicals, and aging. Natural and pharmacological prevention of free radical damage is being actively investigated.
Industry:Health care
1) Chronic excessive intake of water; it may be from an organic cause, such as the dehydration of diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, or a reaction to medication, or from a psychological cause. When untreated it can lead to water intoxication.
2) Excessive or abnormal thirst.
Industry:Health care
1) Chronic excessive intake of water; it may be from an organic cause, such as the dehydration of diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, or a reaction to medication, or from a psychological cause. When untreated it can lead to water intoxication.
2) Excessive or abnormal thirst.
Industry:Health care
1) Chronic, irreversible obstruction of air flow from the lungs.
2) Pulmonary disease (as emphysema or chronic bronchitis) that is characterized by chronic typically irreversible airway obstruction resulting in a slowed rate of exhalation -- abbreviation COPD.
Industry:Health care
1) Chronic, irreversible renal failure.
2) An irreversible and usually progressive reduction in renal function in which both kidneys have been damaged by a variety of diseases to the extent that they are unable to adequately remove the metabolic products from the blood and regulate the body's electrolyte composition and acid-base balance.
3) The final stage of kidney failure (as that resulting from diabetes, chronic hypertension, or glomerulonephritis) that is marked by the complete or nearly complete irreversible loss of renal function -- called also end-stage kidney disease, end-stage kidney failure, end-stage renal failure.
Industry:Health care
1) Class of lipoproteins that promote transport of cholesterol from extrahepatic tissue to the liver for excretion in the bile; synthesized by the liver as particles lacking a lipid core, they accumulate a core of cholesterol esters during reverse cholesterol transport and transfer them to the liver directly or indirectly via other lipoprotein; HDL also shuttle apolipoproteins C-II and E to and from triglyceride-rich lipoproteins during catabolism of the lipoproteins; serum HDL cholesterol has been negatively correlated with premature coronary heart disease.
2) High density lipoproteins are the smallest and densest lipoproteins, and contain a high proportion of protein. They are synthesized in the liver as empty proteins and they pick up cholesterol and increase in size as they circulate through the bloodstream. Because HDL can remove cholesterol from the arteries, and transport it back to the liver for excretion, they are seen as "good" lipoproteins. (from Wikipedia)
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