- 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.
Inorganic substance that is stable in the environment, is liable to long-range transport, may bio-accumulate in human and animal tissue, and may have significant impacts on human health and the environment.
Note 1: Examples are arsenides, fluorides, cadmium salts and lead salts.
Note 2: Some inorganic chemicals, like crocidolite asbestos, are persistent in almost all circumstances, but others, like metal sulfides, are persistent only in unreactive environments; sulfides can generate hydrogen sulfide in a reducing environment or sulfates and sulfuric acid in oxidizing environments. As with organic substances, persistence is often a function of environmental properties.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Insoluble iron(III) hydroxide-based pigment deposited in cells in conditions of iron overload.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Integrated network of organs, glands, and tissues that has evolved to protect the body from foreign substances, including bacteria, viruses, and other infection-causing parasites and pathogens.
Note: The immune system may produce hypersensitivity reactions reactions which, in the extreme, can be fatal. If the immune system misidentifies normal body components as foreign, this leads to autoimmune disorders, such as lupus, in which the body destroys its own constituents.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Interrelationship between humans and the entire environment - physical, biological, socio-economic, and cultural, including the interrelationships between individual humans or groups of humans and other human groups or groups of other species.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Intracellular complex of membranes in which proteins and lipids, as well as molecules for export, are synthesized and in which the biotransformation reactions of the mono-oxygenase enzyme systems occur.
Note: May be isolated as microsomes following cell fractionation procedures.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Introduction of genetic material into an individual, or the modification of the individual’s genetic material, in order to achieve a therapeutic or prophylactic objective.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Involuntary movements, e.g., those that occur as a side effect of psychiatric medications.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Involuntary, rapid, rhythmic movement (horizontal, vertical, rotary, mixed) of the eyeball, usually caused by a disorder of the labyrinth of the inner ear or a malfunction of the central nervous system.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Involving an organ, especially a sense organ as of taste, smell or sight.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Ion, molecule, or molecular group that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
