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Definition: Caspase |
CaspaseNoun1. Any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Enzyme released by the cell at a crucial stage in apoptosis in order to shred all cellular proteins [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Caspase |
| Specialty definitions using "caspase": Caspase 1. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | While additional studies are needed to fully understand the molecular mechanisms by which neurons die, the McGill research suggests that caspase inhibitors may one day be adapted to interrupt or prevent a cascade of processes that lead to neuronal cell death. (references) | |
In one series of studies, researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons sought to discover whether the activation of caspases could explain any of the features of AD's progression (Troy et al., 2000). They found that beta-amyloid induced one particular caspase not only to initiate the cell death pathway – to start apoptosis – but also to act as an effector of cell death, in essence becoming the "cell terminator. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "caspase": Caspase 1. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "caspase": caspase-mediated cell death. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caspase | 18 |
caspase 3 | 6 |
activation apoptosis caspase caspases | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caspase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | caspase. (various references) | ||||
Italian | caspasi (cysteinyl aspartate specific proteinase). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aspasecay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: scapes, spaces. | |
-2 letters: apace, apses, capes, casas, cases, pacas, paces, pases, passe, scape, space, spaes, specs. | |
-3 letters: aces, apes, apse, asea, asps, cape, caps, casa, case, ceps, cess, paca, pace, pacs, pase, pass, peas, pecs, sacs, saps, seas, secs, spae, spas, spec. | |
-4 letters: aas, ace, ape, asp, ass, cap, cep, ess, pac, pas, pea. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: capiases, seascape. | |
+2 letters: airscapes, airspaces, escapades, saucepans, scalepans, seascapes. | |
+3 letters: aerospaces, anapestics, apostacies, asclepiads, backspaces, calipashes, eclampsias, headspaces, landscapes, pancreases, pleasances, scapegoats, scrapheaps, scrappages, spacebands, spacewalks. | |
+4 letters: apocalypses, applesauces, capableness, capitalises, catalepsies, cheapskates, compassable, crawlspaces, landscapers, mascarpones, megaparsecs, mispackages, packsaddles, radarscopes, saponaceous, scapegraces, spacecrafts, waterscapes. | |
+5 letters: absorptances, backslappers, backsplashes, bathyscaphes, cardsharpers, cataphoreses, cataphoresis, catastrophes, catchphrases, ceratopsians, encapsulates, jackanapeses, laparoscopes, plagioclases, relandscapes, scapegoatism, separatistic, spacewalkers, spectaculars. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 73 70 61 73 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ... .--. .- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s p a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 0070 0061 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678582678571 |
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