VAP may refer to:
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Venous access port, a medical
port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ham ...
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of lung infection that occurs in people who are on mechanical ventilation breathing machines in hospitals. As such, VAP typically affects critically ill persons that are in an intensive care unit (I ...
, sub-type of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)
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Vertical auto profile
The vertical auto profile (VAP) test is a cholesterol, lipid and lipoprotein
A lipoprotein is a biochemical assembly whose primary function is to transport hydrophobic lipid (also known as fat) molecules in water, as in blood plasma or other ...
, cholesterol, lipid and lipoprotein blood test
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Vapour Pressure Deficit
Vapour-pressure deficit, or VPD, is the difference (deficit) between the amount of moisture in the air and how much moisture the air can hold when it is saturated. Once air becomes saturated, water will condense out to form clouds, dew or films o ...
, physical effect
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Vascular adhesion protein
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VAP (company)
(initials of Video & Audio Project) is a Japanese entertainment company, headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of Nippon Television Holdings, Inc.
Artists
* Kikuchi Momoko
* Sugiyama Kiyotaka & Omega Tribe
* Carlos Toshiki & O ...
, a Japanese entertainment company
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Véhicule d'Action dans la Profondeur The Véhicule d'Action dans la Profondeur is a military vehicle built by Panhard. It has an empty weight of 2500 kg and a useful payload of 1500 kg, and is a stealthy vehicle intended for use deep in hostile territory. It is an improvemen ...
, a military vehicle made by Panhard
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Virtual Access Point, a method of using multiple
BSSID
In IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networking standards (including Wi-Fi), a service set is a group of wireless network devices which share a ''service set identifier'' (''SSID'')—typically the natural language label that users see as a network ...
s on single physical
Wireless access point
In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP), or more generally just access point (AP), is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network. As a standalone device, the AP may have a wired co ...
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VAP protein family
VAP proteins are conserved integral membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum found in all eukaryotic cells. VAP stands for VAMP-associated protein, where VAMP stands for vesicle-associated membrane protein. Humans have two VAPs that consist ...
, where VAP is the umbrella term for the conserved VAMP-associated protein, where VAMP stands for vesicle-associated membrane protein. Humans have two VAPs:
VAPA
VAMP-Associated Protein A ( or Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein-Associated Protein A) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''VAPA'' gene. Together with VAPB and VAPC it forms the VAP protein family. They are integral endoplasmic retic ...
and
VAPB
Vesicle-associated membrane protein-associated protein B/C is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''VAPB'' gene. The VAPB gene is found on the 20th human chromosome. Together with VAPA, it forms the VAP protein family.
Function
The ...
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