Biological and Chemical Substance Terms
Naturally occurring and laboratory-made chemicals, nutrients, hormones, and other biomedical substances. Browse definitions and meanings below.
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A chemical compound that is used to make one of the building blocks of DNA.
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The scaffold protein on which thyroid hormone is assembled and stored, and the blood marker used to watch for returning thyroid cancer.
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A hormone that affects heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight.
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A hormone produced by the pituitary gland.
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The body's own clot-dissolving switch, copied in the laboratory to become the drug given to reopen a blocked artery during a stroke.
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The body's own clot dissolving switch, borrowed as a drug because it works hardest exactly where a clot has formed.
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TPO most often names thrombopoietin, the hormone driving platelet production, though the same abbreviation also names an unrelated thyroid enzyme.
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A radioactive substance that is used in imaging tests, and is being studied in the treatment of cancer.
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A radioactive substance being studied as an imaging agent in head and neck cancers and other types of cancer.
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A radioactive substance being studied as an imaging agent in head and neck cancers and other types of cancer.
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A hormone found in the brain, platelets, digestive tract, and pineal gland.
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A compound that contains the radioisotope yttrium Y 90 linked to the chemical biotin.