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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Calcitonin is a naturally occurring hormone. In women who are at least 5 years beyond menopause, it slows bone loss and increases spinal bone density.
The epidermal growth factor (EGF) pathway that promotes cell division
Basal cell carcinoma.
A Human Cell
Cell Biology
A prokaryotic cell.
Imaging cell surface glycoproteins in living cells