Tag: Respiratory
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ADAM33: The Asthma Whisperer
ADAM33 is the protein that’s been keeping pulmonologists up at night! ADAM33 is like that mysterious neighbor who everyone suspects is up to something, but no one can quite figure out what. This sneaky little protein has been linked to asthma, but it’s playing hard to get when it comes to revealing its secrets. Picture…
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Cephalothorax aka prosoma
The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind.[1] (The terms prosoma and opisthosoma are equivalent to cephalothorax and abdomen in some groups. The terms prosoma and opisthosoma may be preferred by some researchers in cases such as arachnids, where there is neither fossil nor embryonic evidence animals in this class have ever had separate heads and thoraxes, and…
