Summary Mechanical ventilation, applied either invasively through a tracheotomy tube or noninvasively via a mask, is increasingly used for long-term management of many forms of severe chronic respiratory failure in the home setting.
complete proteins: protein that contain all essential amino acid in sufficient quality to maintain balance and growth. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 6 July 2006, at 15:22.This page has been accessed 5,068 times.
Protein definition, Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments ...