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Antisense drug
A medication containing part of the non-coding strand of messenger RNA (mRNA), a key molecule involved in the translation of DNA into protein. Antisense drugs hybridize with and inactivate mRNA. This stops a particular gene from producing…
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Show more- Postoperative care Care given after surgery until the patient is discharged from the hospital or surgicenter and, in some cases…
- Crisis, midlife See: Midlife crisis
- Score, Gleason A grading system for prostate carcinoma. See Gleason score
- Disease, von Recklinghausen Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Deficiency, vitamin K A lack of vitamin K resulting in an increase in the clotting time of the blood, impaired clotting and a…
- Clone Literally a fragment, the word in modern medical science has come to mean a replica, for example, of a group…
- Acetylcysteine An antioxidant drug used to reduce the thickness of mucus and ease its removal. It is also used to reverse…
- Hyperplasia of the prostate, nodular See: Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Petasites vulgaris See: Butterbur
- Human kinome See Kinome
- OTC (over-the-counter) Available without a prescription. OTC drugs are available without a prescription, simply 'over the counter.'…
- Differentiation therapy Differentiation therapy: An approach to the treatment of advanced or aggressive malignancies in which the…