Collagenase is potentially irreversibly inactivated at pH <5 and reversibly inactivated at pH â¥8.5; activity can be restored by return of pH to 7.4.a. Collagenase can be destroyed by other proteolytic enzymes or by exposure to temperatures >56Â°C.a.
Splenectomy is a surgical procedure to remove your spleen. The spleen is an organ that sits under your rib cage on the upper left side of your abdomen. It helps fight infection and filters unneeded material, such as old or damaged blood cells. The most common reason for splenectomy is to treat a ruptured spleen, often caused by an abdominal injury.
Meaning: Surgical removal of part of a structure or organ. Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Hypernyms (resection is a kind of...): operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of resection): transurethral resection of the prostate; TURP (removal of significant amounts of prostate tissue (as in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia))