All living things are made of compounds containing mostly carbon, so lots of things that are âorganicâ to a gardener are also âorganicâ to a chemist. Of course, there are many carbon compounds that are human-made, or synthetic. To chemists, these are organic compounds too.
AXUMIN is a drug for detection of prostate cancer recurrence in men who have been treated for prostate cancer but have persistently high prostate specific antigen (PSA) in their blood. High PSA in the blood of these patients is a suspicious sign that cancer is coming back or spreading.
Axon: A long fiber of a nerve cell (a neuron) that acts somewhat like a fiber-optic cable carrying outgoing (efferent) messages.The neuron sends electrical impulses from its cell body through the axon to target cells.Each nerve cell has one axon.An axon can be over 20 cm (a foot) in length, which for the human body is remarkably long.xon: A long fiber of a nerve cell (a neuron) that acts somewhat like a fiber-optic cable carrying outgoing (efferent) messages.