| PTBD | percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage; percutaneous transluminal balloon dilatation |
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| AUDIT | alcohol use disorders identification test |
| AUI | Alcohol Use Inventory |
| CSPINE | corticosteroid use, seropositive RA, peripheral joint destruction, involvement of cervical nerves, n... |
| DUE | drug use evaluation |
| percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography | Contrast radiographic examination of biliary system performed by injection through a percutaneously placed needle inserted into an intrahepatic bile duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| percutaneous transluminal angioplasty | An operation for enlarging a narrowed vascular lumen by inflating and withdrawing through the stenotic region a balloon on the tip of an angiographic catheter; may include positioning of an intravascular stent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty | Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of coronary artery or arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| percutaneous umbilical blood sampling | See: PUBS. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nephrostomy, percutaneous | The insertion of a catheter through the skin and body wall into the kidney pelvis, mainly to provide urine drainage where the ureter is not functional. It is used also to remove or dissolve renal calculi and to diagnose ureteral obstruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diskectomy, percutaneous | Percutaneous excision of a herniated or displaced intervertebral disk by posterolateral approach, always remaining outside the spinal canal. Percutaneous nucleotomy was first described by hijikata in japan in 1975. In 1985 onik introduced automated percutaneous nucleotomy which consists in percutaneous aspiration of the nucleus pulposus. It is carried out under local anaesthesia, thus reducing the surgical insult and requiring brief hospitalization, often performed on an outpatient basis. It appears to be a well-tolerated alternative to surgical diskectomy and chymopapain nucleolysis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| transluminal percutaneous coronary angioplasty | <cardiology, procedure> Dilatation of an occluded coronary artery (or arteries) by means of a balloon catheter to restore myocardial blood supply. (07 Mar 2000) |
| arginine glutamate | A compound composed of arginine and glutamic acid, given intravenously to detoxify ammonia; used in the treatment of ammoniaemia resulting from liver dysfunction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| receptors, glutamate | Cell-surface proteins that bind glutamate and trigger changes which influence the behaviour of cells. Glutamate receptors include ionotropic receptors (ampa, kainate, and n-methyl-d-aspartate receptors), which directly control ion channels, and metabotropic receptors which act through second messenger systems. Glutamate receptors are the most common mediators of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. They have also been implicated in the mechanisms of memory and of many diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
| receptors, metabotropic glutamate | Cell surface proteins that bind glutamate and act through g-proteins to influence second messenger systems. Several types of metabotropic glutamate receptors have been cloned. They differ in pharmacology, distribution, and mechanisms of action. (12 Dec 1998) |
| glutamate | <biochemistry, physiology> Major fast excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. See: glutamate receptor. Also the excitatory neuromuscular transmitter in arthropod skeletal muscles. (18 Nov 1997) |
| glutamate-1-saemialdehyde 2,1-aminomutase | <enzyme> Catalyses the conversion of glutamate 1-saemialdehyde to 5-aminolevulinate via 4,5-diaminovalerate in pyridoxane-dependent reactions; genbank x82072 (heml protein from pseudomonas aeruginosa) Registry number: EC 5.4.3.8 Synonym: glu-s-aminotransferase, glutamate-1-saemialdehyde aminotransferase, heml protein, heml gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| glutamate acetyltransferase | <enzyme> An enzyme catalyzing transfer of an acetyl group from N2-acetylornithine to l-glutamate forming l-ornithine and N-acetyl-l-glutamate, an activator of the urea cycle. Synonym: ornithine acetyltransferase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| glutamate aminotransferase | <enzyme> Aromatic keto acid acts as amine acceptor Registry number: EC 2.6.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| glutamate-ammonia ligase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the conversion of ATP, l-glutamate, and nh3 to ADP, orthophosphate, and l-glutamine. It also acts more slowly on 4-methylene-l-glutamate. Chemical name: L-Glutamate:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming) Registry number: EC 6.3.1.2 (12 Dec 1998) |