Medicine

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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Activating transcription factor 4

Medical; Medicine

An activating transcription factor that regulates the expression of a variety of genes involved in amino acid metabolism and transport. It also interacts with HTLV-I transactivator protein.

Activated partial thromboplastin time

Medical; Medicine

The time required for the appearance of fibrin strands following the mixing of plasma with phospholipid platelet substitute (e.g., crude cephalins, soybean phosphatides). It is a test of the ...

Partial thromboplastin time

Medical; Medicine

The time required for the appearance of fibrin strands following the mixing of plasma with phospholipid platelet substitute (e.g., crude cephalins, soybean phosphatides). It is a test of the ...

Activating transcription factor 6

One of the basic-leucine zipper transcription factors that is synthesised as a membrane-bound protein in the endoplasmic reticulum. In response to endoplasmic reticulum stress it translocates to the ...

Activated protein C resistance

Medical; Medicine

A hemostatic disorder characterised by a poor anticoagulant response to activated protein C (APC). The activated form of factor V (factor va) is more slowly degraded by activated protein C. Factor V ...

Apc resistance

Medical; Medicine

Activated protein C inhibitor

Medical; Medicine

A member of the serpin family of proteins that is found in plasma and urine. It is dependent on heparin and is able to inhibit activated protein C; thrombin; kallikrein; and other serine ...