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Senile osteopenia

Senile osteopenia (ICD11 code FB83.02) is an age-related reduction in bone per unit volume defined by a bone mineral density T-score between -1 and -2.5.

Senile osteoporosis

Senile osteoporosis, also called type II or involutional osteoporosis, is age-related primary osteoporosis affecting men and women over 70, with about 1% yearly cortical and trabecular bone loss and frequent hip and pelvic fractures.

Senior Centers

Senior centers are community facilities where older adults gather for congregate meals, wellness activities, and social connection, largely under the US Older Americans Act; about 1 million older adults are connected to services through them.

Senior-Boichis syndrome

Senior-Boichis syndrome (Boichis disease, nephronophthisis-hepatic fibrosis syndrome, ORPHA:84081, OMIM 613550/616217) is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy combining nephronophthisis with liver fibrosis, sometimes retinal degeneration; TMEM67 and DCDC2 are associated genes.

SENIOR-RITA trial

SENIOR-RITA (Older Patients with NSTEMI Randomized Interventional Treatment), a UK randomized trial of 1,518 patients aged 75+ comparing invasive versus conservative NSTEMI management; invasive care did not reduce cardiovascular death or MI (25.6% vs 26.3%) over 4.1 years.

Senior–Løken syndrome

Senior–Løken syndrome (SLSN) is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy combining nephronophthisis with retinal dystrophy (Leber congenital amaurosis or retinitis pigmentosa), prevalence about 1 in 1,000,000, genes including NPHP1 and CEP290.

Senna (plant)

Senna (plant genus, formerly in Cassia; senna, Senna alexandrina): a Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae genus of about 300–350 pantropical species with yellow flowers, apical-pore anthers, and laxative drug uses.

Senna alexandrina

Senna alexandrina (Cassia senna, Cassia angustifolia; Alexandrian, Indian, or Tinnevelly senna) is a Fabaceae shrub whose sennoside-rich leaves and pods are stimulant laxatives for constipation, with grade A evidence and EU herbal monographs.

Senna glycoside

Senna glycosides (sennosides A, B, C, D), anthraquinone dianthrones from Senna alexandrina leaves and pods, are stimulant laxatives used short-term for constipation and bowel cleansing, acting via gut-bacterial conversion to rhein anthrone.

Senomyx

Senomyx, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNMX) was a San Diego biotechnology company founded in 1999 that discovered flavor enhancers using taste receptor-based high-throughput screening; acquired by Firmenich in 2018 for $1.50 per share.

SENP deSUMOylating enzymes

SENP deSUMOylating enzymes, or sentrin-specific proteases, are six human cysteine proteases that remove SUMO from target proteins and trim SUMO precursors to their mature form.

SENP1

SENP1, or SUMO specific peptidase 1, is a human cysteine protease that removes SUMO tags from proteins, stabilizing HIF-1α under hypoxia and promoting cancer growth.

SENP3

SENP3 (Sentrin-specific protease 3, SSP3) is a human nucleolar cysteine protease, 574 aa, Q9H4L4, that deSUMOylates SUMO2/3 substrates, acts as a redox sensor, and is implicated in rRNA processing, cancer, and ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Sensation disturbance

Sensation disturbance (感覚障害), ICD-11 code MB40, is a symptom category covering lost, reduced, exaggerated, or abnormally perceived sensation, from anesthesia and analgesia to allodynia and dysesthesia, most often caused by sensory neuropathy.

Sense

A sense, also known as the five senses, is a biological system that detects stimuli through receptors and sends signals to the brain; humans have an estimated 22 to 33 senses.

Sense (molecular biology)

Sense in molecular biology: the coding DNA strand matching the mRNA, positive/negative sense in RNA viruses, natural antisense transcripts, and antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics.

SENSE trial

SENSE trial (NCT03316547): a randomized trial of 70 preterm infants at St. Louis Children's Hospital testing the Supporting and Enhancing NICU Sensory Experiences program, a parent-delivered daily sensory intervention, versus standard NICU care.

Sensitivity encoding (MRI)

Sensitivity encoding (SENSE) is a parallel MRI technique, introduced in 1999 by Pruessmann and colleagues, that uses receiver coil sensitivities to shorten scan times and remains widely used clinically.

Sensitization

Sensitization is a form of non-associative learning in which behavioral responses are amplified after an aversive or noxious stimulus, classically studied in the Aplysia gill- and siphon-withdrawal reflex.

Sensor DegS

DegS (HhoB), an E. coli inner-membrane HtrA-family serine protease trimer with one PDZ domain, senses misfolded outer-membrane proteins and cleaves RseA to activate the σE envelope-stress response.

Sensor histidine kinase CpxA

CpxA is the inner-membrane sensor histidine kinase of the CpxRA envelope stress two-component system in E. coli and other Gram-negative bacteria, pairing with CpxR; it has autokinase and phosphatase activities, a periplasmic PAS sensor domain, CpxP inhibition, and antivirulence drug relevance.

Sensor histidine kinase RegB

RegB is the redox-sensing histidine kinase of the RegB/RegA two-component system in Rhodobacter and other proteobacteria, controlling photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon and nitrogen fixation via Cys265 and ubiquinone sensing.

Sensor protein VanS-like

Sensor protein VanS-like (InterPro IPR058212) is a family of membrane sensor histidine kinases, HPK1a class, found in Actinobacteria, that with VanR regulates vancomycin-resistance gene expression via His-to-Asp phosphotransfer.

Sensor-augmented insulin pump therapy

Sensor-augmented insulin pump (SAP) therapy combines an insulin pump with continuous glucose monitoring, dosing manually; it is a precursor of automated insulin delivery.

Sensorineural hearing loss

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL): inner ear hearing loss from damaged cochlear hair cells or auditory nerve fibers, caused by aging, noise, ototoxic drugs, Ménière's disease, or genetics; permanent, managed with hearing aids, cochlear implants, and now OTOF gene therapy.

Sensorium

Sensorium (plural sensoria): the sensory apparatus or brain regions receiving and interpreting sensations; historically the sensorium commune, seat of sensation; also a mouse visual cortex ML benchmark.

Sensory Aids

Sensory aids are devices and materials that extend the senses, chiefly for visual or hearing impairment, including hearing aids, cochlear implants, low-vision aids, and cross-sensory substitution devices; MeSH D012682.

Sensory Art Therapies

Sensory Art Therapies (MeSH D026421, 2002): therapies using arts or directed at the senses, covering art, music, dance, play, color, aroma, and acoustic stimulation; evidence strongest for dementia dyads and state anxiety, weak for chronic pain.

Sensory ataxic neuropathy-dysarthria-ophthalmoparesis syndrome

SANDO (sensory ataxic neuropathy-dysarthria-ophthalmoparesis syndrome, ORPHA:70595) is a rare adult-onset autosomal recessive mitochondrial disease caused by POLG mutations, featuring ataxic neuropathy, dysarthria, and ophthalmoparesis; valproic acid is contraindicated.

Sensory Feedback

Sensory feedback: a organism's own sensory-system information about a task, movement, or skill (MeSH Feedback, Sensory). Covers proprioceptive and cutaneous sources, spinal sensorimotor circuits, intrinsic versus augmented feedback in motor learning, and wearable haptic feedback devices.