Zinc oxide
An ingredient found in creams and ointments used to prevent or treat minor skin burns and irritation including sun burns and diaper rash.
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A form of zinc that can be administered in eyedrops. Zinc sulfate is used in some types of eye tests.
- Zinsser disease
Also called Brill-Zinsser disease, recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is reactivated causing recurrent typhus. The disease is named for the physician Nathan Brill and the great bacteriologist Hans Zinsser.
- ZIP code, protein
An informal name for a molecular cell biology system of signals or “address tags” that guide the movement of a protein within a cell. In more technical terms, protein ZIP codes* are molecular signals that direct the protein from the endoplasmic reticulum, where it is assembled, to the cytoplasm of the cell and into other […]
- ZNF9
A gene that encodes a protein called zinc finger protein 9. An inherited mutation in ZNF9 causes type 2 myotonic dystrophy. One region of the ZNF9 gene has a particular 4-base-pair sequence, CCTG, that is normally repeated a few times. (Base pairs are the building blocks of DNA.) This region is called a tetranucleotide repeat. […]
- Zoll, Paul M.
American cardiologist (1911-1999) and pioneer in the development of the cardiac monitor, pacemaker and defibrillator.