potential

Proteopathy

... the polypeptide backbone, all proteins have the potential to misfold under some conditions. [6] Only certain proteins are linked to proteopathy, possibly due to instability or other structural features of the monomeric protein that increase the probability of misconformation, which in nearly all instanc...

Positive predictive value

...e more than one cause for a disease and any single potential cause may not always result in the overt disease s...nostic tests where the gold standard looks only at potential causes of disease, one may use an extension of the predictive value termed the Etiologic Predictive...

Personalized medicine

...oach to drug development as well as unleashing the potential of significantly more effective diagnosis, therape... has been reluctant to the immediately embrace the potential of personalized medicine. It is believed that they are concerned that the emergence of personalized ...

Medical procedure

...lectrooculography Electroretinography Evoked potential Endoscopy Colonoscopy Gastroscopy Cystoscopy Sigmoidoscopy Colposcopy Otoscopy Ophthalmoscopy Videoendoscopy Virtual colonoscopy Laparoscopy Esophageal motility study Medical imaging Angiography Cerebral ...

Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition

... single neuron is "depolarized" (the normal −70 mV potential across the neuronal membrane is reduced, usually t...get cell, making it less likely to fire an action potential . Accordingly, any ionic current that hyperpolarizes a cell is called an inhibitory current. In the...

Babies switched at birth

...umford states that the reason for this is that the potential causes for questionable paternity are far more wide ranging and richer in scope than those for questionable maternity, and thus provide a greater vein for soap opera scriptwriters to mine. Whereas questionable maternity can only be caused by error or...