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...
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...
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...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), sometimes called photochemotherapy, is a form of phototherapy using nontoxic light-sensitive compounds that are exposed selectively to light, whereupon they become toxic...
Polymer processing aid
Stearoyl-CoA desaturase[pronunciation?] (delta-9-desaturase) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SCD gene.[1] Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 is a key enzyme in fatty acid metabolism. It is ...
Osteoporosis ("porous bones", from Greek: οστούν/ostoun meaning "bone" and πόρος/poros meaning "pore") is a progressive bone disease that is characterized by a decrease in bone mass and density whi...
Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an enterohemorrhagic serotype of the bacterium Escherichia coli and a cause of illness, typically through consumption of contaminated food.[1] Infection may lead to hemo...
