Glossary

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  • Chemosensitizer

    A drug that makes tumour cells more sensitive to the effects of chemotherapy.  

  • Chemokines

    Are chemotactic cytokines, which stimulate migration of inflammatory cells towards tissue sites of inflammation. Class of pro-inflammatory cytokines that have the ability to attract and activate leukocytes. They can be divided into at least three structural branches: C (chemokines, C), CC (chemokines, CC), and CXC (chemokines, CXC), according to variations in a shared cysteine motif.…

  • Chemoembolization

    A procedure in which the blood supply to the tumour is blocked surgically or mechanically and anticancer drugs are administered directly into the tumour.  

  • Chancre

    Chancre

    A painless lesion formed during the primary stage of syphilis. Firm, red, ulcerated sore. A chancre is the primary indication of syphilis; it occurs at the point of entry of the infection. A type of skin lesion usually associated with primary syphilis. A lesion, characteristic symptom of syphilis in its primary stage. A sore on…

  • Chalcones

    A subgroup of flavonoids.  

  • CGMP

    Cyclic guanosine monophosphate is a cyclic nucleotide derived from guanosine triphosphate (GTP). cGMP is a common regulator of ion channel conductance, glycogenolysis, and cellular apoptosis. It also relaxes smooth muscle tissues.  

  • Cerebrovascular disease

    Is a group of brain dysfunctions related to disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain. Illnesses that disrupt blood supply to the brain, stroke; cerebrovascular accident. Similar to cardiovascular disease in that the vascular tree of the brain has developed atherosclerotic lesions, which restrict or occlude the blood supply to this organ. Any disease…

  • Cerebrosides

    Are glycosphingolipids which are important components in animal muscle and nerve cell membranes. A ceramide with a sugar residue as a head group. This is a complex lipid in nerve and other tissues. A cerebroside is a sphingolipid. One of a group of compounds occurring in the myelin sheaths of nerve fibers. They are glycolipids,…

  • Cerebral tonic

    Substance that can alleviate poor concentration and memory, restlessness, uneasiness, and insomnia.  

  • Cerebral infarction

    Is the ischemic kind of stroke due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. The death of brain tissue as a result of reduction in the blood supply to the brain.