- Industry: Library & information science
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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) The genetic relationships and medical history of a family; when represented in diagram form using standardized symbols and terminology, usually referred to as a pedigree
2) A record of a person's current and past illnesses, and those of his or her parents, brothers, sisters, children, and other family members. A family history shows the pattern of certain diseases in a family, and helps to determine risk factors for those and other diseases.
3) A family history is a record of medical information about an individual and their biological family. Human genetic data is becoming more prevalent and easy to obtain. Increasingly, this data is being used to identify individuals who are at increased risk for developing genetic disorders that run in families.
Industry:Medical
A mutation whose gene product adversely affects the normal, wild-type gene product within the same cell, usually by dimerizing (combining) with it. In cases of polymeric molecules, such as collagen, dominant negative mutations are often more deleterious than mutations causing the production of no gene product (null mutations or null alleles).
Industry:Medical
1) The uptake by a cell of material from the environment by invagination of its plasma membrane.
2) The uptake of external materials by cells by the invagination of small region of the plasma membrane to form a new intracellular membrane-limited vesicle.
3) Incorporation of substances into a cell by phagocytosis or pinocytosis.
Industry:Medical
1) Blocking of a blood vessel by a blood clot or foreign matter that has been transported from a distant site by the blood stream.
2) A block in an artery caused by blood clots or other substances, such as fat globules, infected tissue, or cancer cells.
Industry:Medical
Расположенный или происходящий снаружи клетки или клеток тела (внеклеточное пищеварение, внеклеточные ферменты).
Industry:Medical
Относящийся к эмбриону (зародышу). Пребывающий на ранней стадии развития.
Industry:Medical
Небольшая молекула, которая активирует определенный репрессор гена присоединяясь к нему.
Industry:Medical
