| SRPR | signal recognition particle receptor |
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| STAT | immediately (Lat. statim); signal transducer and activator of transcription |
| TSD | target-skin distance; Tay-Sachs disease; theory of signal detectability |
| UBS | unidentified bright signal |
| ACP | accessory conduction pathway; acid phosphatase; acyl carrier protein; American College of Pathologis... |
| Entner-Doudoroff pathway | <biochemistry> A pathway that converts glucose to pyruvate and glyceraldehyde-3 phosphate by producing 6-phosphogluconate and then dehydrating it. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| extrinsic pathway | <haematology> Initiation of blood clotting as a result of factors released from damaged tissue, as opposed to contact with a foreign surface (the intrinsic pathway). Tissue thromboplastin (Factor III) in conjunction with Factor VII proconvertin) will activate Factor X that, once activated, converts prothrombin to thrombin. (27 Jun 1999) |
| 4-aminobutyrate pathway | The pathway that ultimately converts 4-aminobutyrate to succinate; succinate is then converted to alpha-ketoglutarate, via the tricarboxylic acid cycle, which is then acted upon by glutamate dehydrogenase; glutamate is then decarboxylated to reform 4-aminobutyrate; an important pathway for those cells which make this neuroactive molecule. Synonym: GABA pathway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lysogenic pathway | <virology> The method by which a virus becomes a dormant, passive part of its host bacterium's genome (a lysogenic virus), choosing to insert its DNA into the host's and postponing completion of its lytic cycle, at which time it destroys the host and spreads its progeny to infect other bacterial cells (enters the lytic pathway). (09 Oct 1997) |
| lytic pathway | The steps in the method that a virus takes to complete a lytic cycle, including the production and assembly of progeny viruses with host cell machinery and the destruction of the host cell by rupturing its plasma membrane (lysis), releasing the progeny viruses in the process. (09 Oct 1997) |