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  • Thumbnail for Peripheral nervous system
    The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is one of two components that make up the nervous system of bilateral animals, with the other part being the central...
    14 KB (1,688 words) - 02:34, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tissue-type plasminogen activator
    Tissue-type plasminogen activator, short name tPA, is a protein that facilitates the breakdown of blood clots. It acts as an enzyme to convert plasminogen...
    28 KB (3,187 words) - 01:22, 14 May 2024
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    inhibitors of urokinase are the serpins plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 (PAI-2), which inhibit the protease...
    20 KB (2,290 words) - 08:54, 4 May 2024
  • Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a de facto standard (with many variants) for synchronous serial communication, used primarily in embedded systems...
    52 KB (6,114 words) - 01:47, 11 July 2024
  • there are several mechanisms of peripheral tolerance to prevent their activation. Antigen-specific mechanisms of peripheral tolerance include persistent...
    24 KB (2,978 words) - 02:08, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tunnel vision
    Tunnel vision is the loss of peripheral vision with retention of central vision, resulting in a constricted circular tunnel-like field of vision. Tunnel...
    19 KB (2,206 words) - 17:57, 21 July 2024
  • Peripheral chemoreceptors (of the carotid and aortic bodies) are so named because they are sensory extensions of the peripheral nervous system into blood...
    22 KB (2,643 words) - 18:11, 21 January 2024
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    Vertigo (redirect from Peripheral vertigo)
    sickness is sometimes classified as a cause of peripheral vertigo.[citation needed] People with peripheral vertigo typically present with mild to moderate...
    41 KB (4,166 words) - 20:20, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peripheral membrane protein
    Peripheral membrane proteins, or extrinsic membrane proteins, are membrane proteins that adhere only temporarily to the biological membrane with which...
    55 KB (4,391 words) - 16:59, 23 March 2024
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    ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925) detailed the first known description of peripheral and central facial palsy. Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel (1620–1702) in...
    43 KB (4,581 words) - 04:35, 30 May 2024
  • Peripheral mononeuropathy is a nerve related disease where a single nerve, that is used to transport messages from the brain to the peripheral body, is...
    19 KB (2,215 words) - 03:05, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peripherally inserted central catheter
    A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC or PICC line), also called a percutaneous indwelling central catheter or longline, is a form of intravenous...
    14 KB (1,570 words) - 03:40, 24 June 2024
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    S2CID 19141293. Carroll GT, Kirschman DL (2022). "A Peripherally Located Air Recirculation Device Containing an Activated Carbon Filter Reduces VOC Levels in a Simulated...
    74 KB (8,262 words) - 03:21, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alcoholic polyneuropathy
    Alcoholic polyneuropathy is a neurological disorder in which peripheral nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously. It is defined by axonal...
    26 KB (2,951 words) - 01:10, 18 June 2024
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    fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system. Nerves have historically been considered the basic units of the peripheral nervous system. A nerve...
    24 KB (2,736 words) - 20:50, 26 July 2024
  • of persons it may be severe. The pain may result from disorders of the peripheral nervous system or the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord)....
    59 KB (6,666 words) - 07:09, 19 July 2024
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    infusion of a thrombolytic agent (e.g., recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), streptokinase, or urokinase). A percutaneous catheter inserted...
    23 KB (2,323 words) - 01:27, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
    demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory...
    46 KB (5,008 words) - 13:32, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nerve injury
    nervous system, neuroregeneration in the peripheral nervous system is possible. The processes that occur in peripheral regeneration can be divided into the...
    34 KB (4,113 words) - 01:03, 12 July 2024
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    muscle cells. The narrowing of blood vessels leads to an increase in peripheral resistance, thereby elevating blood pressure. While vasoconstriction is...
    19 KB (1,648 words) - 12:50, 25 June 2024
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