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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) Any of a group of antibiotics derived from various species of Streptomyces or produced synthetically; they inhibit protein synthesis by binding with the 30S ribosomal subunit.
2) A broad spectrum antibiotic family derived from Streptomyces containing aminoglycosides that bind to bacterial ribosomes, inhibiting protein synthesis.
3) A type of antibiotic that works against many types of bacteria and includes streptomycin, gentamicin, and neomycin. Aminoglycosides are used to treat bacterial infections.
Industry:Medical
Fat-storing cells found mostly in the abdominal cavity and subcutaneous tissue. Fat is usually stored in the form of triglycerides.
Industry:Medical
1) A pathologic condition resulting from accumulation of acid or depletion of the alkaline reserve (bicarbonate) content of the blood and body tissues, and characterized by an increase in hydrogen ion concentration (decrease in pH). (Dorland, 27th ed)
2) An abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues.
Industry:Medical
An individual or strain whose chromosomes are composed of more than two genomes each of which has been derived more or less complete but possibly modified from one of two or more species.
Industry:Medical
1) Variant forms of the same gene. Different alleles produce variations in inherited characteristics such as eye color or blood type.
2) One of the alternative versions of a gene at a given location (locus) along a chromosome
3) An allele is one of two or more versions of a gene. An individual inherits two alleles for each gene, one from each parent. If the two alleles are the same, the individual is homozygous for that gene. If the alleles are different, the individual is heterozygous. Though the term "allele" was originally used to describe variation among genes, it now also refers to variation among non-coding DNA sequences.
Industry:Medical
The hydrogen ion concentration or pH.
1 : The quality, state, or degree of being sour or chemically acid <the acidity of lemon juice>. 2 : The quality or state of being excessively or abnormally acid.
Industry:Medical
Consideration for well being of others as opposed to self-love or egoism. Used for human or animal populations.
Industry:Medical
1) The large arterial trunk that carries blood from the heart to be distributed by branch arteries through the body.
2) The largest artery in the body. It carries oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to vessels that reach the rest of the body.
Industry:Medical
A quickly progressing disease in which too many immature white blood cells (called lymphoblasts) are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Industry:Medical
1) A protein normally produced by a fetus. AFP levels are usually undetectable in the blood of healthy adult men or women (who are not pregnant). An elevated level of AFP suggests the presence of either a primary liver cancer or germ cell tumor.
2) A fetal blood protein present abnormally in adults with some forms of cancer (as of the liver) and normally in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women but with very low levels tending to be associated with Down syndrome in the fetus and very high levels with neural tube defects (as spina bifida) in which the tube remains open.
Industry:Medical
