PharmacologieLa pharmacologie est une discipline scientifique du vivant, subdivision de la biologie, qui étudie les mécanismes d'interaction entre une substance active et l'organisme dans lequel elle évolue, de façon à pouvoir ensuite utiliser ces résultats à des fins thérapeutiques, comme l'élaboration d'un médicament (principalement) ou son amélioration. Pour ce faire, la pharmacologie intègre des concepts et données issus de la physiologie, physio-pathologie, biochimie, génétique et biologie moléculaire.
Loose connective tissueLoose connective tissue, also known as areolar tissue, is a cellular connective tissue with thin and relatively sparse collagen fibers. Its ground substance occupies more volume than the fibers do. It has a viscous to gel-like consistency and plays an important role in the diffusion of oxygen and nutrients from the capillaries that course through this connective tissue as well as in the diffusion of carbon dioxide and metabolic wastes back to the vessels.
Polyglutamine tractA polyglutamine tract or polyQ tract is a portion of a protein consisting of a sequence of several glutamine units. A tract typically consists of about 10 to a few hundred such units. A multitude of genes, in various eukaryotic species (including humans), contain a number of repetitions of the nucleotide triplet CAG or CAA. When the gene is translated into a protein, each of these triplets gives rise to a glutamine unit, resulting in a polyglutamine tract.
