Tethered polymer surface
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and Charcot disease, is a specific disorder that involves the death of neurons.[1] In the United Kingdom the term motor neuro...
Tumor formation causing cancerous blockages
N-Acetylglucosamine (N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, or GlcNAc, or NAG) is a monosaccharide derivative of glucose. It is an amide between glucosamine and acetic acid. It has a molecular formula of C8H15NO6...
Substantial interest has arisen in recent years in fabricating ceramic composites. While there is considerable interest in composites with one or more non-ceramic constituents, the greatest attenti...
Voltage sensor
Wavelength-specific cytotoxic agents
Electromechanical transducer
In enzymology, a CoA-disulfide reductase (EC 1.8.1.14) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction 2 CoA + NAD(P)+ \rightleftharpoons CoA-disulfide + NAD(P)H + H+ The 3 substrates of this...
A prism light guide was developed in 1981 by Lorne Whitehead, a physics professor at the University of British Columbia[18][19] and has been used in solar lighting for both transport and distributi...
Manufactured feeds are an important part of modern commercial aquaculture, providing the balanced nutrition needed by farmed fish. The feeds, in the form of granules or pellets, provide the nutriti...
Endothelial cells treatment
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a peripheral or coronary stent (a scaffold) placed into narrowed, diseased peripheral or coronary arteries that slowly releases a drug to block cell proliferation. Thi...
Also in 2006, German physicians reported on a dose-escalation study for the compound AP 12009 (a phosphorothioate antisense oligodeoxynucleotide specific for the mRNA of human transforming growth f...
Mucociliary clearance, also referred to as mucociliary apparatus or mucociliar clearance (MCC), derived from mucus, cilia (cilia of the tracheal surface epithelium in the respiratory tract) and cle...
Improving integrity of body passageways
Sterol compositions from pulping soap
Transplant rejection is when transplanted tissue is rejected by the recipient's immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. Transplant rejection can be lessened by determining the molecu...
Microglia are a type of glial cell that are the resident macrophages of the brain and spinal cord, and thus act as the first and main form of active immune defense in the central nervous system (CN...
