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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 fluid inside a cell but outside the cell's nucleus. Most chemical reactions in a cell take place in the cytoplasm.
2) The cellular substance outside the nucleus in which the cell's organelles are suspended.
3) Cytoplasm is the gelatinous liquid that fills the inside of a cell. It is composed of water, salts, and various organic molecules. Some intracellular organelles, such the nucleus and mitochondria, are enclosed by membranes that separate them from the cytoplasm.
Industry:Medical
1) Unpleasant, but not necessarily irrational or pathological, mood state characterized by sadness, despair, or discouragement; "the blues"; may also involve low self-esteem, social withdrawal, and somatic symptoms such as eating and sleep disturbance.
2) A mental state of depressed mood characterised by feelings of sadness, despair and discouragement.
Industry:Medical
1) A disease in which the body does not properly control the amount of sugar in the blood. As a result, the level of sugar in the blood is too high. This disease occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or does not use it properly.
2) Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by an inability to make or use the hormone insulin. Insulin is needed by cells to metabolize glucose, the body's main source of chemical energy. Type I diabetes, also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, is usually caused by an autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing cells. Type II diabetes, also called non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, occurs when cells become resistant to the effects of insulin.
Industry:Medical
La parte dura del dente che circonda la polpa, ricoperta di smalto sulla corona e cemento sulla radice, che è più dura e compatta dell'osso ma è più tenera dello smalto e quindi viene subito erosa se lasciata scoperta.
Industry:Medical
A chromosome translocation or rearrangement detected by special techniques (e.g., fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), telomeric detection) because it is too small to be seen with conventional cytogenetic techniques.
Industry:Medical
A small molecule that activates a particular genetic repressor by combining with it.
Industry:Medical
Testing designed to confirm or exclude a known or suspected genetic disorder in a symptomatic individual or, prenatally, in a fetus at risk for a certain genetic condition.
Industry:Medical
An enzyme that accelerates the removal of hydrogen from metabolites and its transfer to other substances.
Industry:Medical
The great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres.
Industry:Medical
A map depicting the relative order of a linked library of overlapping clones representing a complete chromosomal segment.
Industry:Medical
