- 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.
Immunostimulant antigenic substance which may or may not cause a clinically significant effect but which is capable of producing immediate hypersensitivity.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Loss or impairment of the power of speech or writing, or of the ability to understand written or spoken language or signs, due to a brain injury or disease.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Association between exposure concentration and the resultant magnitude of the continuously graded change produced, either in an individual or in a population.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Association between exposure concentration and the resultant magnitude of the continuously graded change produced, either in an individual or in a population.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Serum containing antibodies to a particular antigen either because of immunization or after an infectious disease.
Note: Usually the antibodies are polyclonal.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Process of quantitative or qualitative analysis of a component of a sample.
2. Results of a quantitative or qualitative analysis of a component of a sample.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Fundamental substance or matrix of the cell (within the plasma membrane) which surrounds the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and other organelles.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process by which a normally non-biodegradable compound is biodegraded in the presence of a structurally similar compound which can induce the necessary enzymes.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Application of mathematical and computer models to predict adverse effects and to better understand the mechanism(s) through which a given chemical causes harm.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Active process of programmed cell death, requiring metabolic energy, often characterized by fragmentation of DNA, and cell deletion without associated inflammation.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
