T-DM1 and similar drugs under development consist of powerful toxins linked to proteins called antibodies. The antibodies latch onto cancer cells and deliver the toxic payload directly into those cells. Since the toxin is not active until it reaches the tumor, side effects are reduced.
Such treatments, known as antibody-drug conjugates, have been pursued for decades, but only now is success being achieved.
dead language
n.
A language, such as Latin, that is no longer learned as a native language by a speech community.
v., -gat·ed, -gat·ing, -gates. v.tr.
congulate
- Grammar. To inflect (a verb) in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice, mood, and tense.
- To join together.
- Biology. To undergo conjugation.
- Grammar. To be inflected.
- Joined together, especially in a pair or pairs; coupled.
- Mathematics & Physics. Inversely or oppositely related with respect to one of a group of otherwise identical properties, especially designating either or both of a pair of complex numbers differing only in the sign of the imaginary term.
- Chemistry. Relating to an acid and a base that are related by the difference of a proton.
- Linguistics. Derived from a common source, such as the words foul and filth.
- Mathematics & Physics. Any of a set of numbers that satisfy the same irreducible polynomial.
- Chemistry. A chemical compound that has been formed by the joining of two or more compounds.
[Latin coniugāre, coniugāt-, to join together : com-, com- + iugāre, to join (from iugum, yoke).]
conjugately con'ju·gate'ly adv.conjugative con'ju·ga'tive adj.
conjugator con'ju·ga'tor n.
- かつようご【活用語】
- a conjugated word
- かつようごび【活用語尾】
- a conjugational suffix
v. intr. - 結合, 性交, 結親, 交配
adj. - 結合的, 同根的, 成對的
n. - 同根詞
日文し‐ご【死語】
1 古く使用されていたが、現在ではどの民族にも使用されなくなってしまった言語。
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