- Industry: Library & information science
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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) Substances that stimulate the production of blood cells. Treatment with colony-stimulating factors (CSF) can help the blood-forming tissue recover from the effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
2) A substance that stimulates the production of blood cells. Colony-stimulating factors include granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (also called G-CSF and filgrastim), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors (also called GM-CSF and sargramostim), and promegapoietin.
Industry:Medical
1) One of the two photoreceptor cell types in the vertebrate retina. In cones the photopigment is in invaginations of the cell membrane of the outer segment. Cones are less sensitive to light than rods, but they provide vision with higher spatial and temporal acuity, and the combination of signals from cones with different pigments allows color vision.
2) Type of specialized light-sensitive cell (photoreceptor) in the retina of the eye that provides sharp central vision and color vision.
Industry:Medical
1) Dynamic structural changes to eukaryotic chromatin occurring throughout the cell division cycle. These changes range from the local changes necessary for transcriptional regulation to global changes necessary for chromosome segregation.
2) Chromatin Remodeling involves alterations of the content or activity of DNA-binding and chromatin-associated proteins that affect the function and higher order conformational state of chromatin, as well as the activity of specific genes or functional DNA regions.
3) The mechanisms involved with making the DNA in CHROMATIN more or less accessible to transcription machinery.
Industry:Medical
1) loss of intellectual functions such as memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and abstract thinking while vegetative functions remain intact.
2) An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
Industry:Medical
1: Skin patterns; especially: patterns of the specialized skin of the inferior surfaces of the hands and feet. 2: The science of the study of skin patterns.
Industry:Medical
Artificially constructed cloning vector containing the cos gene of phage lambda. Cosmids can be packaged in lambda phage particles for infection into E. coli; this permits cloning of larger DNA fragments (up to 45kb) than can be introduced into bacterial hosts in plasmid vectors.
Industry:Medical
The state resulting from the loss or destruction of myelin; also: the process of such loss or destruction.
Industry:Medical
1) The cytoplasmic changes accompanying mitosis.
2) Cleavage of the cytoplasm into daughter cells following nuclear division.
Industry:Medical
