| Health / Medical Topics |
Transient Hypogammaglobulinemia
A broad classification for humoral immunodeficiencies. These disorders may be caused by inadequate activation of progenitor B cells, defective class-switching or the effects of medications. Despite the potential for increased susceptibility to infection, these disorders are self-limited with eventual normalization of serum antibody levels. (NCI Thesaurus)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
A condition characterized by sudden, temporary, usually short-lived memory loss, not associated with a neurologic disorder. Affected individuals lose memory function for…
Conditional (or inducible) gene knock-out. A transgenic technique. A transgenic animal is constructed such that a gene of interest, or chromosome…
A myeloid proliferation occurring in newborns with Down syndrome. It is clinically and morphologically indistinguishable from acute myeloid leukemia and is…
A family of enzymes that catalyze the formation of a covalent bond between the epsilon-amino group of a protein- or peptide-bound lysine…
A shared facility for creation and propagation of transgenic mice.
A mouse whose genome has been altered by the inclusion of foreign genetic material. The technique involves microinjection of foreign DNA fragments…
