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  • Chalcones

    A subgroup of flavonoids.  

  • CGMP

    Cyclic guanosine monophosphate is a cyclic nucleotide derived from guanosine triphosphate (GTP). cGMP is a common regulator of ion channel conductance, glycogenolysis, and cellular apoptosis. It also relaxes smooth muscle tissues.  

  • Cerebrovascular disease

    Is a group of brain dysfunctions related to disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain. Illnesses that disrupt blood supply to the brain, stroke; cerebrovascular accident. Similar to cardiovascular disease in that the vascular tree of the brain has developed atherosclerotic lesions, which restrict or occlude the blood supply to this organ. Any disease…

  • Cerebrosides

    Are glycosphingolipids which are important components in animal muscle and nerve cell membranes. A ceramide with a sugar residue as a head group. This is a complex lipid in nerve and other tissues. A cerebroside is a sphingolipid. One of a group of compounds occurring in the myelin sheaths of nerve fibers. They are glycolipids,…

  • Cerebral tonic

    Substance that can alleviate poor concentration and memory, restlessness, uneasiness, and insomnia.  

  • Cerebral infarction

    Is the ischemic kind of stroke due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. The death of brain tissue as a result of reduction in the blood supply to the brain.  

  • Cerebral ischemia

    Is the localized reduction of blood flow to the brain or parts of the brain due to arterial obstruction or systematic hyperfusion.  

  • Cerebral embolism

    A blockage of blood flow through a vessel in the brain by a blood clot that formed elsewhere in the body and traveled to the brain. A blood clot that breaks loose from its site of origin and lodges in a cerebral artery causing a stroke cerebral thrombosis. Sudden blockage of an artery in the…

  • Ceramide oligosides

    Oligosides with an N-acetyl-sphingosine moiety.  

  • Cephalic

    Relating to the head; cranial. In reference to the head, as seen in cephalic presentation, it denotes the position of a baby within the birth canal where the head is positioned first.  

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