There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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Drug-induced pharmacodynamic effects manifested in older adults include drug-induced renal toxicity, which can be a major factor when these adults are experiencing other kidney problems.
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In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.
Examples of cell-to-cell communication based on the distance between cells
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For a particular cell based on the reaction:3 AgCl(s) + Al(s) → 3 Ag(s) + Al3+(aq) + 3 ...
An antigen-presenting dendritic cell (blue) interacting with a T cell (yellow)