| CTU | cardiac-thoracic unit; centigrade thermal unit; constitutive transcription unit |
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| BDR | background diabetic retinopathy |
| BI | background interval; bacterial or bactericidal index; base-in [prism]; basilar impression; Billroth ... |
| Bkg | background |
| GnRH | Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone [HP 1898, 2034] = LHRH = Go... |
| BGE | Background electrolyte |
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| NESB | Non English Speaking Background |
| B | background |
| cNOS | Constitutive NO Synthase |
| cNO | constitutive NO |
| background level | The average amount of a substance present in the environment. Originally referring to naturally occurring phenomena. Used in toxic substance monitoring. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| background radiation | <radiobiology> Level of environmental radation due to background sources. Background sources can be natural, such as cosmic rays and natural radioactive elements (principally radon, but including other elements such as isotopes of potassium (which people get substantial amounts of in foods like bananas)). They can also be man-made, such as from fossil-fuel combustion, everyday leakage from nuclear activities, and leftover from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. Background radiation is usually distinguished from acute radiation, such as from medical X-rays, nuclear accidents, radioisotope therapy, or other short-term doses. The man-made contribution to background radiation is quite small compared to the natural contribution, medical uses dominate human exposure to acute radiation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| background retinopathy | <ophthalmology, pathology> Early stage of diabetic retinopathy, it usually does not impair vision. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (09 Oct 1997) |
| constitutive | Constantly present, whether there is demand or not. Thus some enzymes are constitutively produced, whereas others are inducible. (18 Nov 1997) |
| constitutive enzyme | <enzyme> An enzyme that is constantly produced by the cell regardless of the growth conditions. Compare: induced enzyme. (05 Mar 2000) |
| constitutive gene | A gene which is continuously expressed without any regulation (transcription can be neither suppressed nor encouraged). These genes generally encode housekeeping functions and are expressed at low levels in all cells. (09 Oct 1997) |
| constitutive heterochromatin | <protein> Regions on chromosomes which are permanently condensed and genetically inactive in every cell in the body. The condensed portions are always in the same position on both homologous chromosomes. An example is the centromeres. Compare: facultative heterochromatin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| constitutive mutant | An organism with a mutation in a regulatory gene, so that the genes which its flawed regulatory product are supposed to suppress become constitutive genes, or impossible to turn off. Thus, the products of the uncontrolled genes are produced to excess. (09 Oct 1997) |
| vectorial synthesis | <cell biology> Term usually applied to the mode of synthesis of proteins destined for export from the cell. As the protein is made it moves (vectorially) through the membrane of the rough endoplasmic reticulum, to which the ribosome is attached and into the cisternal space. (06 Mar 2000) |
| gene synthesis | <molecular biology> The complete synthesis of a gene using a DNA synthesiser (gene machine), or the assembly of oligonucleotides so synthesised into a synthetic gene, as opposed to cloning. (14 Nov 1997) |
| cell-free protein synthesis | <technique> An in vitro method to make proteins, using amino acids, the mRNA corresponding to the protein to be made, and a cell-free extract (the contents of a cell after removal of the cell wall and/or outer cell membranes) for other needed components and enzymes. (26 Mar 1998) |
| cellular immunodeficiency with abnormal immunoglobulin synthesis | An ill-defined group of sporadic disorders of unknown cause, occurring in both males and females and associated with recurrent bacterial, fungal, protozoal, and viral infections; there is thymic hypoplasia with depressed cellular (T-lymphocyte) immunity combined with defective humoral (B-lymphocyte) immunity, although immunoglobulin levels may be normal. Synonym: Nezelof syndrome, Nezelof type of thymic alymphoplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Merrifield synthesis | The synthesis of peptides and proteins via an automated system on carrier polymers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chiral synthesis | <chemistry> The production of chiral compounds in only one enantiomer, or handedness. (See chirality) (05 Jan 1998) |
| coordinated enzyme synthesis | The regulatory mechanism where an entire group of different enzymes, all of which play a part in the same metabolic process, is synthesised at the same time. This comes about because the chemical signal to begin synthesis of each enzyme is the same for all of them. (09 Oct 1997) |
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