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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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Follistatin

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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 ...

Actuarial analysis

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The application of probability and statistical methods to calculate the risk of occurrence of any event, such as onset of illness, recurrent disease, hospitalization, disability, or death. It may ...

Actuarial analyses

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The application of probability and statistical methods to calculate the risk of occurrence of any event, such as onset of illness, recurrent disease, hospitalization, disability, or death. It may ...

Bouts of physical irritability or movement alternating with periods of quiescence. It includes biochemical activity and hormonal activity which may be cellular. These cycles are shorter than 24 hours ...

Activin-beta subunits

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They are glycopeptides and subunits in inhibins and activins. Inhibins and activins belong to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily.

Actomyosin

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A protein complex of actin and myosins occurring in muscle. It is the essential contractile substance of muscle.

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 ...