– pathways made up by a group of proteins within the walls of cells that function to pass transduction signals into a cell. These pathways are activated by the binding of a Wnt-protein ligand to a cell wall receptor, which passes the biological signal on to an intracellular protein. Mutations of these pathways lead to a variety of diseases, including cancer.
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xenograft
AKA xenotransplantation: a transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs,from a one organism to another of a different species. An example would be bovine pericardium as a dural substitute in operations on humans.
XRT
Radiotherapy – XRT is a common abbreviation used in describing or speaking about radiation therapy used to treat cancers and other tumors.
zoonotic
a infectious disease that is transmitted from an animal to a human. The transmission can be via a vector.
