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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.
The thin, highly vascular membrane covering most of the posterior of the eye between the RETINA and SCLERA.
Industry:Medical
1) Self-replicating, short, fibrous, rod-shaped organelles. Each centriole is a short cylinder containing nine pairs of peripheral microtubules, arranged so as to form the wall of the cylinder.
2) One of a pair of cellular organelles that occur especially in animals, are adjacent to the nucleus, function in the formation of the spindle apparatus during cell division, and consist of a cylinder with nine microtubules arranged peripherally in a circle
3) Centrioles are paired barrel-shaped organelles located in the cytoplasm of animal cells near the nuclear envelope. Centrioles play a role in organizing microtubules that serve as the cell's skeletal system. They help determine the locations of the nucleus and other organelles within the cell.
Industry:Medical
La parte dell'orecchio interno che riguarda l'udito. Costituisce la parte anteriore del labirinto, ha forma conica ed è situata quasi orizzontalmente prima del vestibolo.
Industry:Medical
Relazione di parentela tra individui discendenti da almeno un progenitore in comune.
Industry:Medical
A waxy, fat-like substance made in the liver, and found in the blood and in all cells of the body. Cholesterol is important for good health and is needed for making cell walls, tissues, hormones, vitamin D, and bile acid. Cholesterol also comes from eating foods taken from animals such as egg yolks, meat, and whole-milk dairy products. Too much cholesterol in the blood may build up in blood vessel walls, block blood flow to tissues and organs, and increase the risk of developing heart disease and stroke.
Industry:Medical
The union or introduction of genetic information from compatible mating types that results in a genetically different individual. Conjugation requires direct cellular contact between the organisms.
Industry:Medical
Тонкий слой протеогликанов и гликопртеинов, в частности, ламинина, выделямых клетками в качестве внешнеклеточной матрицы.
Industry:Medical
1) Уменьшение объема органа, ткани, клетки или множественных органов, сопровождающееся снижением их функций. Связано с рядом патологических состояний, таких как аномальные клеточные изменения, ишемия, недоедание или гормональные изменения.
2) Уменьшение объема или истощение какого-либо органа или ткани; также - остановка развития или утрата органа или части органа, несущественная для нормального развития и жизнедеятельности животного или растения.
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