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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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Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

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A species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic spherical or rod-shaped bacteria that associates with species of actinomyces in actinomycotic lesions.

Actinobacillus equuli

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A genus of gram-negative bacteria in the genus actinobacillus, which is pathogenic for horses and pigs.

Actinin

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A protein factor that regulates the length of R-actin. It is chemically similar, but immunochemically distinguishable from actin.

Ion transport that is coupled to an energy-yielding process. When proteins such as ion pumps couple transport directly to a chemical or photochemical reaction such as ATP hydrolysis the process is ...

Active oxygen

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Molecules or ions formed by the incomplete one-electron reduction of oxygen. These reactive oxygen intermediates include singlet oxygen; superoxides; peroxides; hydroxyl radical; and hypochlorous ...

Active immunotherapies

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Active immunisation where vaccine is administered for therapeutic or preventive purposes. This can include administration of immunopotentiating agents such as BCG vaccine and corynebacterium parvum ...