Ebola in Sub-Sahara Africa Source: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxgsy8RUj31r98we1o1_500.jpg History of Ebola • Ebola is a virus‚ also called Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever • Named after a river in the Democractic Republic of the Congo‚ formerly known as Zaire‚ in Africa‚ where it was first recognized in 1976. • It belongs to a family of RNA viruses called Filoviridae • Four identified subtypes in Africa: Zaire‚ Sudan‚ Ivory Coast and Bundibugyo‚ each named after the region in which they occurred
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Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)‚ is a referred to as a disease characterized by hemolytic anemia‚ caused by the destruction of red blood cells‚ acute kidney failure (uremia)‚ and a low platelet count (thrombocytopenia). Although‚ it mostly affects children‚ there have been cases of adults with this illness. The destroyed red blood cells block the filtering system in the kidneys‚ which can lead to a life-threatening kidney failure. HUS usually develops in children after five to 10 days of diarrhea
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Abstract Background Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are known mediators of cellular damage in multiple diseases including diabetic complications. Despite its importance‚ no comprehensive database is currently available for the genes associated with ROS. Methods We present ROS- and diabetes-related targets (genes/proteins) collected from the biomedical literature through a text mining technology. A web-based literature mining tool‚ SciMiner‚ was applied to 1‚154 biomedical papers indexed with
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BIO152 Chapter 43 – The Immune System 1. Describe the function of the immune system. Function: protect body from pathogens + foreign objects‚ destroy infected or malignant cells‚ and remove cellular debris. System includes: thymus‚ spleen‚ lymph nodes and tissues‚ stem cells‚ white blood cells‚ antibodies. 2. Compare innate and acquired immunity‚ and how they differ in terms of how quickly they attack a pathogen‚ and how they recognize a pathogen. Innate immunity- immediate defense
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Introduction to Medical Terminology Contents 1. Human Anatomy 3 1.1. 10 Major Body Systems 3 1.2. Body Planes 7 2. Components of Medical Terminology 7 3. Basic Medical Abbreviations 20 3.1 Symbols 27 3.2 Directional and Positional Terms 28 1. Human Anatomy 1.1. 10 Major Body Systems | Skeletal System | The main role of the skeletal system is to provide support for the body‚ to protect delicate internal organs and to provide attachment sites for the
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Library Research Paper (LRP) Phthalates‚ Environmental Pollutants Today‚ there is a great concern on chemical substances that accumulate in the environment which become pollutants in high concentrations that can cause serious threats and hazards in the environment and in the organisms living in it by imitating hormones and changing the normal functions of the endocrine system and by carrying diseases in humans and other organisms. These compounds can be naturally
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Anti-cancer Drug Screening in Vitro Introduction: The incidences of cancer remain high despite advances in our understanding of cancer. Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out of control cell growth. Normal cells are constantly subject to signals that control whether the cell should divide‚ differentiate into another cell or die. Cancer cells develop a degree of independence from these signals‚ which results in uncontrolled growth and proliferation. If this proliferation is allowed
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that normally inhibits proliferation (Bunting et al.‚ 2010). For the mice homozygous for null BRCA1 mutations‚ for example with exon-11 deletion (Δ11) isoform of BRCA1 (BRCA111/11)‚ the organisms develop embryonic lethality‚ which display severe apoptosis (Liu et al.‚ 1996; Ludwig et al.‚ 1997). As a result‚ cells must acquire secondary mutations to allow proliferation and tumorigenesis in order to survive with BRCA1 deficiency (Aly and Ganesan‚ 2011). Almost all BRCA1-deficient cancer cells have
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o Activates the anti inflamtory activity o Inhibit the cancer invasion o Anti metastatis o Inhibits cell proliferation o Induce cell differeration o Induce apoptosis o Induce phase2 enzymes o Inacetive phase1 enzymes And it can be said that it inhibits the precancerous lesion‚ inhibits the cancer growth and stop the tumor to grow and it has both effects chemotherapeutic effect and chemopreventive effects.there
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3. Results and discussion 3.1 Nutritional analysis In the present study‚ the potential benefits were shown by nutritional attributes of dried bathua (Table1). Moisture content and dry matter analysis‚ reporting during nutritional analysis is very important because it directly affects the nutritional content of vegetable. The moisture content was quite low (5.06%) which may be advantageous in view of increasing the sample’s shelf life. Bathua was found to be rich in carbohydrates (40.84%). There
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