General agriculture

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Sawlogs

Agriculture; General agriculture

A log large enough to be sawed economically into boards on a sawmill. Sawlogs are usually at least 8 inches in diameter at the small end.

Edible vaccines

Agriculture; General agriculture

Vaccines or candidate vaccines derived from edible plants. Transgenic plants are used as recombinant protein production systems and the edible plant tissue functions as an oral vaccine.

Vaccines in which the infectious microbial nucleic acid components have been destroyed by chemical or physical treatment (e.g., formalin, beta-propiolactone, gamma radiation) without affecting the ...

Live vaccines

Agriculture; General agriculture

Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected ...

Urbanisation

Agriculture; General agriculture

The process by which the population and area of a city expands which is usually accompanied by the loss of rural, undeveloped or natural habitats to residential, commerical, industrial or ...

Gap junctions

Agriculture; General agriculture

Connexions between cells which allow passage of small molecules and electric current. Gap junctions were first described anatomically as regions of close apposition between cells with a narrow (1-2 ...