tyrosine
noun
ty·ro·sine
ˈtī-rə-ˌsēn 
: a phenolic amino acid C9H11NO3 that is a precursor of several important substances (such as epinephrine and melanin)
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The drug, an allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, performed comparably to Sotyktu, a similar medicine made by Bristol Myers Squibb that was approved in 2022, FierceBiotech writes.
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Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 11 Mar. 2024
Treatment can include monitoring the tumor (surveillance) or interventions such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or medications such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Surgery, which was once a primary treatment, has become less common due to high morbidity and postsurgical recurrence rates.
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 13 Dec. 2023
The researchers show in the paper that the device can resolve the distinct fluorescent UV signatures of the cancer-indicating proteins and amino acids tyrosine, elastin, tryptophan, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
This mutation makes the cave fish unable to metabolize the amino acid tyrosine to make the pigment melanin, resulting in their colorless appearance.
—Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
Physicians had indeed moved their patients over to one of the newer tyrosine kinase inhibitors like Tasigna.
—WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
One way is to eat foods that are high in tyrosine, such as avocados, bananas, and dark chocolate.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
There’s potential to raise dopamine levels from foods that are high in tyrosine.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
This change results in person's bone marrow making a specific protein called tyrosine kinase, which causes too many stem cells to become white blood cells—and, as with other types of leukemia, those extra abnormal blood cells build up, leaving less room for healthy blood cells.
—Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 11 Mar. 2024
Treatment can include monitoring the tumor (surveillance) or interventions such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or medications such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Surgery, which was once a primary treatment, has become less common due to high morbidity and postsurgical recurrence rates.
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 13 Dec. 2023
The researchers show in the paper that the device can resolve the distinct fluorescent UV signatures of the cancer-indicating proteins and amino acids tyrosine, elastin, tryptophan, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
This mutation makes the cave fish unable to metabolize the amino acid tyrosine to make the pigment melanin, resulting in their colorless appearance.
—Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
Physicians had indeed moved their patients over to one of the newer tyrosine kinase inhibitors like Tasigna.
—WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
One way is to eat foods that are high in tyrosine, such as avocados, bananas, and dark chocolate.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
There’s potential to raise dopamine levels from foods that are high in tyrosine.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
This change results in person's bone marrow making a specific protein called tyrosine kinase, which causes too many stem cells to become white blood cells—and, as with other types of leukemia, those extra abnormal blood cells build up, leaving less room for healthy blood cells.
—Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
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tyrosine
noun
ty·ro·sine
ˈtī-rə-ˌsēn
: a phenolic amino acid C9H11NO3 that is a precursor of several important substances (as epinephrine and melanin)
—abbreviation Tyr
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