Medical terms beginning with P

Information about all proteins that are made in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, at certain times.

A group of enzymes involved in several processes related to cell growth and survival.

Because several distinct forms of PKC exist, the enzyme influences cell growth, programmed cell death, and other processes well beyond a single role.

Information about all proteins that are made in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, at certain times.

A drug used to treat breast cancer that has spread or that has come back within 6 months after chemotherapy.

A molecule that contains both protein and glycosaminoglycans, which are a type of polysaccharide.

Built as harmless precursors and switched on only in the right place, because a cell that made them active would digest itself.

Information about all proteins that are made in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, at certain times.

The large-scale study of every protein a cell is making, a picture that changes far faster than its genes do.

A gene involved in normal cell growth.

Fixing the plan in writing before anything starts is what stops a result being explained away by choices made after the fact.

A particle of basic physics with an unusual clinical afterlife, because a beam of protons can be made to stop exactly where it is wanted.

A type of radiation therapy that uses streams of protons (tiny particles with a positive charge) that come from a special machine.

A noninvasive imaging method that provides information about cellular activity (metabolic information).

The ointment form of tacrolimus, valued in eczema mainly because it spares the skin from the thinning that steroids cause.

Having to do with the simplest organisms in the animal kingdom.

(Other name for: PV-10)

A treatment manufactured one patient at a time, which is why it is called a vaccine even though it treats rather than prevents.

A quick-relief inhaler brand whose active drug reopens narrowed airways within minutes but does nothing to the inflammation beneath.

Provera is a brand name for oral medroxyprogesterone acetate, a progestin used to regulate periods and treat abnormal uterine bleeding.