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Essence; the material or necessary component of something. A matter of substance, as distinguished from a matter of form, with respect to pleadings, affidavits, indictments, and other legal instruments, entails the essential sufficiency, validity, or merits of the instrument, as opposed to its method or style. substance (Essential nature), noun actuality, basis, body, content, core, drift, essence, essential part, force, gist, heart, hypostasis, idea, import, marrow, material, meaning, pith, principle, purport, reality, res, sense, significance, signification, soul, sum, tenor, vital part substance (Material possessions), noun assets, command of money, corpus, estate, fortune, income, means, money, ownership, property, resources, revenue, riches, treasure, wealth, wherewithal See also: amount, article, body, bulk, capsule, center, composition, connotation, consequence, construction, content, contents, contour, cornerstone, corpus, element, essence, gist, gravamen, import, importance, main point, materiality, meaning, money, object, point, possessions, property, purpose, quantity, reality, shape, significance, signification, spirit, structure, sum, value SUBSTANCE, evidence. That which is essential; it is used in opposition to
form.
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Basbaum, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, studied the distribution of substance P and its receptor molecules in the spinal cord. The peripheral neurons that release substance P are thought to send pain signals to the brain and to help regulate the immune response in damaged tissues. Compounds that moderate Substance P not only moderate pain, but also reduce the inflammation that exacerbates many ailments, such as arthritis and asthma. |
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