| aromatase inhibitor |
Aromatase inhibitors (AI) are a class of drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer in post-menopausal women. Aromatase inhibitors work by inhibiting the action of the enzyme aromatase which converts androgens into estrogens by a process called aromatization. In contrast to pre-menopausal women, in whom most of the estrogen in produced in the ovaries, in post-menopausal women most of the body's estrogen is produced in the adrenal gland from the conversion of androgens. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatase_inhibitor
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| aromatic |
In chemistry, an aromatic molecule is one in which electrons are free to cycle around circular arrangements of atoms, which are alternately singly and doubly bonded to one another. (More properly, these bonds may be seen as a hybrid of a single bond and a double bond, each bond in the ring being identical to every other.) This commonly seen model of aromatic rings was developed by Friedrich August Kekul?von Stradonitz. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic
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| aromatase inhibitor |
A drug that prevents the formation of estradiol, a female hormone, by interfering with an aromatase enzyme. Aromatase inhibitors are used as a type of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women who have hormone-dependent breast cancer.
출처: www.stjude.org/glossary
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| aromatic cascara fluidextract |
[USP] one prepared from cascara sagrada with the addition of pure glycyrrhiza extract; used as a cathartic.
출처: www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/thcp_dorlands_conte...
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| aromatic |
substance with an aroma or smell
출처: www.lovingscents.com/Glossary.htm
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