What are Growth Factors?
Growth factors are cellular compounds that stimulate growth, cellular proliferation, cellular differentiation, and wound healing.
What are Signal Transduction Pathways?
Signal Transduction Pathways are signaling actions that stimulate cellular response.
What is Cell Activation?
Cellular Activation is the process by which cells are stimulated to perform certain actions. Cell Signaling is the process by which cells are communicated to perform a certain action.
What is Cellular Metabolism?
Cellular Metabolism is the chemical changes that cells utilize to produce energy. Mitochondrial Function is aimed at generating ATP, to be used for energy.
What is Cellular Housekeeping?
Cellular Housekeeping refers to activities for cells to acquire resources and dispose of waste. Plasma Membrane: Protection and Nutrient Acquisition Cytoskeleton and Cell-Cell Interactions Biosynthetic Machinery: Endoplasmic Reticulum and Golgi Waste Disposal: Lysosomes and Proteasomes
What is the Genome?
The Genome is the full set of genetic information of an organism. Noncoding DNA Histone Organization Micro-RNA Long Noncoding RNA Micro-RNA (miRNA) Long Noncoding RNA (lncRNA)
What is Basal Cell Carcinoma?
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common malignancy of the eyelid.
What is Proptosis?
Proptosis is displacement of the eye forward. Proptosis may be due to graves disease (thyroid opthalmopathy), lacrimal gland enlargement due to inflammation, or neoplasms. The two most common primary tumors of the optic nerve (meningioma and glioma) may cause proptosis.
What is Thymic Carcinoma?
Thymic carcinomas are rare types of aggressive cancers of thymic epithelial origin.
What are Thymomas?
Thymomas are tumors of thymic epithelial cell origin. The types of thymomas are: Type A thymoma, including atypical variantType AB thymomaType B1 thymomaType B2 thymomaType B3 thymomaMicronodular thymoma with lymphoid stromaMetaplastic thymomaMicroscopic thymomaSclerosing thymomaLipofibroadenoma Useful immunohistochemistry includes: AE1/AE3 (pan-keratins), CK19, CK20,…