| SAP | Serum Amyloid Plasma component |
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| AP | accessory pathway; accounts payable; acid phosphatase; acinar parenchyma; action potential; active p... |
| C1 | first cervical nerve; first cervical vertebra; first component of complement |
| C1a | activated first component of complement |
| C1 INH | inhibitor of first component of complement |
| component S, glutamate mutase | <chemical> Component s of the coenzyme b12-dependent glutamate mutase from clostridium cochlearium; mw 15 kD; amino acid sequence given in first source Synonym: glms gene product, muts gene product (clostridium) (26 Jun 1999) |
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| plasma thromboplastin component | <chemical> Storage-stable blood coagulation factor acting in the intrinsic pathway. Its activated form, ixa, forms a complex with factor viii and calcium on platelet factor 3 to activate factor x to xa. Deficiency of factor ix results in christmas disease (haemophilia b). Chemical name: Blood-coagulation factor IX (12 Dec 1998) |
| habitat component | <ecology> A single element (for example, velocity, depth, cover, etc.) of the habitat or environment in which a fish or other aquatic species or population may live or occur. (09 Oct 1997) |
| secretory component | <physiology> A glycoprotein found in a variety of external secretions (tears, bile, colostrum) usually complexed to secreted polymeric immunoglobulins (IgA or, less frequently IgM). It is derived, by proteolytic cleavage, from the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (receptors, polymeric immunoglobulin) and probably functions to protect the immunoglobulins from proteolysis in the secretions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| secretory component of IgA | <immunology, protein> A polypeptide chain of about 60 kD that aids secretion of the IgA, a portion of the IgA receptor on the plasmalemma of the inner side of the epithelial cells lining the gut, which is proteolysed when the IgA receptor complex has travelled through the cell after receptor mediated endocytosis at the inner face, to the outer (luminal) face. (18 Nov 1997) |
| serum amyloid P component | Precursor of amyloid component P, found in basement membrane. Member of the pentraxin family. See: serum amyloid. (18 Nov 1997) |
| two-component plasma | <radiobiology> Refers to a plasma containing a cool thermal component and a population of high energy particles (such as from neutral beam injection) which are in the process of thermalising (slowing down). (09 Oct 1997) |
| fast component | <molecular biology> A segment of eukaryotic DNA consisting of highly-repeated nucleotide sequences which, when the entire duplex DNA molecule is denatured (the double-stranded helix comes apart and becomes single strands) and then allowed to renature (the complementary single strands come together to form a helix), will be the first segment to renature. (09 Oct 1997) |