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Medicine

The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

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Action potential

Medical; Medicine

Abrupt changes in the membrane potential that sweep along the cell membrane of excitable cells in response to excitation stimuli.

Actinomycetales

Medical; Medicine

An order of gram-positive, primarily aerobic bacteria that tend to form branching filaments.

Activated factor V

Medical; Medicine

Activated form of factor V. It is an essential cofactor for the activation of prothrombin catalysed by factor xa.

Actinomycetales infection

Medical; Medicine

Infections with bacteria of the order actinomycetales.

Actinomycete infection

Medical; Medicine

Infections with bacteria of the order actinomycetales.

Activin receptor like kinase

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Receptors for activins are membrane protein kinases belonging to the family of protein-serine-threonine kinases, thus also named activin receptor-like kinases (ALK's). Activin receptors also bind ...

Activin binding protein

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A broadly distributed protein that binds directly to activins. It functions as an activin antagonist, inhibits follicle stimulating hormone secretion, regulates cell differentiation, and plays an ...