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| Domain | Definition |
Health | An eleven-amino acid neurotransmitter that appears in both the central and peripheral nervous systems. It is involved in transmission of pain, causes rapid contractions of the gastrointestinal smooth muscle, and modulates inflammatory and immune responses. (references) |
Medicine | Naturally occurring brain peptide. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In neuroscience, Substance P is a neuropeptide: a short-chain polypeptide that functions as a neurotransmitter. It is especially involved in the transmission of pain impulses from peripheral receptors to the central nervous system (it derives its name from the first letter of pain).Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Substance P."
Crosswords: SUBSTANCE P |
| Specialty definitions using "SUBSTANCE P": Enterochromaffin Cells ♦ Neurokinin A, Neurokinin K ♦ Physalaemin ♦ Receptors, Neurokinin-1, Receptors, Tachykinin. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Receptors for substance P served as a portal or point of entry for the compound. (references) | |
It works by reducing the amount of substance P found in nerve endings and interferes with the transmission of pain signals to the brain. (references) | ||
When animals were given injections of a lethal cocktail containing substance P linked to the chemical saporin, this group of cells, whose sole function is to communicate pain, were killed. (references) | ||
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| 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 |
substance p | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "SUBSTANCE P"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | substance P. (various references) | |
German | Substanz P. (various references) | |
Italian | sostanza P. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubstancesay pay.(various references) | |
Spanish | sustancia P. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-n-p-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: substance. | |
-2 letters: nutcases, subcaste, subpenas, subspace. | |
-3 letters: absents, aptness, ascents, aspects, butanes, caestus, catsups, cuestas, cuspate, nutcase, patness, peanuts, petasus, sacbuts, secants, stances, subnets, subpena, subsect, suspect, teacups, uncases, unseats, unsteps, upbeats, upcasts, usances. | |
-4 letters: absent, abuses, acutes, anuses, ascent, aspect, aspens, assent, basest, basset, bastes, beasts, beauts, becaps, butane, cantus, castes, catsup, causes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-n-p-s-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: supercabinets. | |
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