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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) Connective tissue cells which secrete an extracellular matrix rich in collagen and other macromolecules.
2) A connective tissue cell that makes and secretes collagen proteins.
3) A fibroblast is the most common type of cell found in connective tissue. Fibroblasts secrete collagen proteins that are used to maintain a structural framework for many tissues. They also play an important role in healing wounds.
Industry:Health care
1) Constituting or relating to a tail; situated near the tail.
2) Backwards; in a direction toward the tail or posterior extremity of the body.
Industry:Health care
1) Cytoplasmic vesicles formed when coated vesicles shed their clathrin coat. Endosomes internalize macromolecules bound by receptors on the cell surface.
2) A membrane-bound organelle that carries materials newly ingested by endocytosis. It passes many of the materials to lysosomes for degradation.
Industry:Health care
1) Cytosine (C) is one of four chemical bases in DNA, the other three being adenine (A), guanine (G), and thymine (T). Within the DNA molecule, cytosine bases located on one strand form chemical bonds with guanine bases on the opposite strand. The sequence of four DNA bases encodes the cell's genetic instructions.
2) A pyrimidine base (C4H5N3O) that codes genetic information in the polynucleotide chain of DNA or RNA.
Industry:Health care
1) Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
2) 1. a: An injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent (surgical trauma) (the intra-abdominal organs at greatest risk to athletic trauma are the spleen, pancreas, and kidney -- M. R. Eichelberger). b: A disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from mental or emotional stress or physical injury. 2: An agent, force, or mechanism that causes trauma.
Industry:Health care
1) Damage to biological tissues caused by superoxide and other free radicals generated as a result of intoxication, antimicrobial cellular immunity, metabolic abnormality, or "normal" aging; do not confuse with hypoxia or hyperoxia.
2) Physiological stress on the body that is caused by the cumulative damage done by free radicals inadequately neutralized by antioxidants and that is held to be associated with aging.
Industry:Health care
1) Decrease in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or multiple organs, associated with a variety of pathological conditions such as abnormal cellular changes, ischemia, malnutrition, or hormonal changes.
2) Decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue; also: arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant.
Industry:Health care
1) Decreased absorption of fat and other nutrients caused by liver, biliary, pancreatic or intestinal disease.
2) General term for a group of malnutrition syndromes caused by failure of normal intestinal absorption of nutrients.
3) Impaired absorption of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract.
4) A group of symptoms such as gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea resulting from the body's inability to properly absorb nutrients.
Industry:Health care
1) Decreased calcification, bone density, or bone mass due to inadequate osteoid synthesis.
2) Decreased calcification or density of bone tissue.
3) A lower-than-normal bone mass or bone mineral density (the amount of bone mineral contained in a certain amount of bone). Osteopenia is a less severe form of bone loss than osteoporosis.
Industry:Health care
1) Decreased calcification, bone density, or bone mass due to inadequate osteoid synthesis.
2) Decreased calcification or density of bone tissue.
3) A lower-than-normal bone mass or bone mineral density (the amount of bone mineral contained in a certain amount of bone). Osteopenia is a less severe form of bone loss than osteoporosis.
Industry:Health care
