P24 ANTIGEN at Medical Glossary

What is it? A core protein making up the nucleocapsid of the HIV Virus, p24 was thought at one time to be a surrogate marker for disease progression. Now it is recognized that some long term asymptomatics have relatively high elevations of p24, while others die never

Medical Definition Added By: Aubrey

Send To Friends!

If you'd like to send the P24 ANTIGEN definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -

We hope you now understand the meaning of P24 ANTIGEN. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Other Similar Medical Terms:

Medicine Term CFR is See Code of Federal Regulations

Medicine Term PROTOCOL MONITOR is The staff person at the CPCRA Statistical Center who is primary clinic contact, and who coordinates the flow of data between the sites and the statistical center.

Medicine Term RANDOMIZATION is 1. The process of assigning patients to treatment using a random process, such as via use of a table of random numbers. 2. The process of deriving an order or sequence of items, determinations, specimens, readings, or the like using a random process.

Medicine Term Palpation is the use of the hands to feel parts of the body to check for any abnormalities

Medicine Term synapse is a tiny gap between the ends of nerve fibers across which nerve impulses pass from one neuron to another; at the synapse, an impulse causes the release of a neurotransmitter, which diffuses across the gap and triggers an electrical impulse in the next neur