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Mechanism Description. Description of a tool, machine, or other mechanical device—usually with moving parts—designed to perform a specific kind of work ...
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The mechanism of action and localization of neurotransmitters in the brain has provided valuable information concerning the cause of many mental disorders, including clinical depression and chemical dependency, and in researching medications that allow normal flow and movement of neurotransmitter molecules.
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Description. A ubiquitous bacteria found in soil, ... Mechanism. Botulinum spores are not, in themselves, dangerous. Only bacteria which are actively metabolizing can produce the botulinus toxin. It is possible that heat activates the spores to germinate and that this heat also kills other bacteria which would compete...
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Description. An extremely virulent, often fatal, Old-World, viral hemorrhagic illness. Lassa fever, an arenavirus, is an enveloped, single-stranded, bisegmented RNA virus. As with other arenaviruses, Lassa virus does not have a conventional negative-strand coding arrangement. ... Because of the mechanism of infection,
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By what mechanism do changes in bilayer composition modulate conformational equilibria of intrinsic membrane proteins? ... Then, a simplified description of the equilibrium between conformational states of proteins is developed.
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Description of the driving axle of the truck ... Truck steering is performed through the hydraulically actuated steering wheel system and the hydraulic cylinders .
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Mechanism of action of cadmium on the bone after an environmental exposure; (Faculté de médecine / Ecole de santé publique / EPID) ... Cadmium seems to exert its pathogenic effect on the bone by two mechanisms: ways direct and indirect, via the tubular renal attack.
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