| SCA | self-care agency; severe congenital anomaly; sickle-cell anemia; single-camera autostereoscopic [ima... |
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| SPC | salicylamide, phenacetin, and caffeine; seropositive carrier; single palmar crease; single photoelec... |
| SUA | serum uric acid; single umbilical artery; single unit activity |
| DS | dead air space; dead space; deep sedative; deep sleep; defined substrate; dehydroepiandrosterone sul... |
| ds | double-stranded |
| single person | The unmarried man or woman. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| single photon emission computed tomography | <radiology> Tomographic imaging of metabolic and physiological functions in tissues, the image being formed by computer synthesis of photons of a single energy emitted by radionuclides administered in suitable form to the patient. The method uses radionuclides which emit a single photon of a given energy. The camera is then rotated 180 or 360 degrees around the patient to capture images at multiple positions along the arc. The computer then reconstructs the transaxial, sagittal, and coronal images from the 3-dimensional distribution of radionuclides in the target area scanned. The advantages of SPECT are that it can be used to observe biochemical and physiological processes as well as the size and volume of the organ. The disadvantage is that, unlike positron emission tomography where the positron-electron annihilation results in the emission of 2 photons at 180 degrees from each other, SPECT requires physical collimation to line up the photons, which results in the loss of available photons and hence degrades the image. Acronym: SPECT (20 Jun 2000) |
| single-strand break | A break in double-stranded DNA in which only one of the two strands has been cleaved; both strands have not separated from each other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| single ventricle | Congenital absence or near total absence of the ventricular septum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dental implants, single-tooth | Devices, usually alloplastic, surgically inserted into or onto the jawbone, which support a single prosthetic tooth and serve either as abutments or as cosmetic replacements for missing teeth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diseases, single-gene | Hereditary disorders caused by a change (mutation) in a single gene. There are thousands of single-gene diseases including achondroplastic dwarfism, Huntington disease, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and haemophilia. Single-gene diseases typically describe classic simple Mendelian patterns of inheritance (as autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked traits) by comparison with polygenic diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arsenite(antimonate)-stimulated ATPase | <enzyme> Anion pump with 2 polypeptide components (arsa and arsb); arsa is the catalytic subunit of an oxyanion-translocating atpase; arsb protein has been localised in the inner membrane of E coli; arsc protein required for arsenate resistance; reduces arsenate to arsenite Registry number: EC 3.6.1.- Synonym: arsa protein, arsb protein, ars gene product, arsc protein, anion-translocating atpase, arsenical resistance pump, oxyanion pump, arsenate reductase (26 Jun 1999) |
| ATPase | <enzyme> An enzyme that hydrolyzes ATP into ADP and phosphate. (09 Oct 1997) |
| bicarbonate ATPase | <enzyme> Anion sensitive Registry number: EC 3.6.1.- Synonym: hco(3)-atpase, atpase, bicarbonate, cl atpase, atpase, chloride, chloride-bicarbonate atpase, anion-sensitive atpase (26 Jun 1999) |
| cadmium translocating ATPase | <enzyme> Cadmium-efflux atpase; e1,e2-translocating atpase is a generic name which includes all cation-transport atpases; do not confuse with lysine decarboxylase cada Registry number: EC 3.6.1.- Synonym: cada atpase, cd-e1,e2-translocating atpase (26 Jun 1999) |
| calcium ATPase | <enzyme> Usually used of the calcium pumping ATPase present in high concentration as an integral membrane protein of the sarcoplasmic reticulum of muscle. This pump lowers the cytoplasmic calcium level and causes contraction to stop. Normal function of the pump seems to require a local phospholipid environment from which cholesterol is excluded. (18 Nov 1997) |
| calcium magnesium-atpase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of ATP and is activated by millimolar concentrations of either calcium or magnesium. Unlike calcium-transporting atpase it does not require the second divalent cation for its activity, and is not sensitive to orthovanadate. Registry number: EC 3.6.1.- (12 Dec 1998) |
| calcium-transporting atpase | <enzyme> An enzyme found in the sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicle membrane. During the relaxation of skeletal muscles and muscle rich in mitochondria, this enzyme catalyses the active transport of calcium into the sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles from the sarcoplasm. It requires micromolar concentrations of calcium and utilises mgatp as a substrate. Chemical name: ATP phosphohydrolase (Calcium-transporting) Registry number: EC 3.6.1.38 (12 Dec 1998) |
| vacuolar ATPase | <enzyme> From eukaryotic endomembrane systems, including vacuoles, lysosomes, golgi apparatus, chromaffin granules and coated vesicles. One of three major classes of ion transport ATPase, characterised by a multi subunit structure and a lack of a phosphorylated intermediate. Found in archaebacteria but not eubacteria, in the intracellular acidic vacuoles and in some proton pumping epithelia (e.g. Intercalated cells of kidney). A complex enzyme encoded by several genes, involved in ion translocation but does not act via phosphorylated enzyme intermediate See: P-type ATPase. Registry number: EC 3.6.1.- Synonym: atpase, v-type, atpase, vacuolar, vacuolar atpase, v-atpase, vacuolar h+-atpase, vacuolar membrane h(+)-atpase, vha55 gene product, vma16 gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| vacuolar calcium ATPase | <enzyme> Isolated from saccharomyces cerevisiae; genbank u36603 Registry number: EC 3.6.1.- Synonym: h(+)-ca(2+)-atpase, vacuolar (26 Jun 1999) |