Prior to the introduction of brain death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non-heart beating donors (NHBDs).[citation needed] Donors after ...
Sickle-cell disease (SCD), also known as sickle-cell anaemia (SCA) and drepanocytosis, is a hereditary blood disorder, characterized by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying haemoglobin molecule in...
Sirolimus (also known as rapamycin) is a chemical that was discovered by Suren Sehgal,[1] as a product of bacteria discovered on Easter Island (the island is also known as Rapa Nui).[2] It was appr...
In medicine, a stent is a tube or other device placed in the body to create a passage between two hollow spaces, and stenting is the placement of such a stent. There are a wide variety of stents us...
Iron deficiency (sideropenia or hypoferremia) is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world.[1][2][3] Iron is present in all cells in the human body and has several vital functions, such a...
Ethoid-containing compounds
Nucleic acid purification
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.[2] Symptoms of high blood sugar includ...
Immunoglobulin E (IgE) is a kind of antibody (or immunoglobulin (Ig) "isotype") that has only been found in mammals. Monomers of IgE consist of two heavy chains (ε chain) and two light chains, with...
The adenosine A2A receptor, also known as ADORA2A, is an adenosine receptor, but also denotes the human gene encoding it. This protein is a member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family w...
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...
Germinal centers (or germinal centres; GC) are sites within secondary lymphoid organs where mature B lymphocytes proliferate, differentiate, and mutate their antibody genes (through somatic hypermu...
Lattice truss structures
Laser surface texturing
Premature rupture of membranes (PROM), or pre-labor rupture of membranes, is a condition that occurs in pregnancy. It is defined as rupture, or breakage, of the amniotic sac more than one hour befo...
Analysis of cardiac rhythms
Heat-managing structures
Cancer Listeni/ˈkænsər/, also known as a malignant tumor or malignant neoplasm, is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the bo...
