Jordan Via Mr. Krause Speech II P.4 18 Jan. 2012 A BILL TO PROVIDE COMPLETE FUNDING AND ESTABLISH STEM CELL RESEARCH CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES Stem cell research can potentially help treat a range of medical problems; it could lead humanity closer to better treatment and possibly cure a number of diseases. Better treatment of these diseases could also give significant social benefits for individuals and increase the now slump economy. There is endless potential for scientists to learn about
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Title: Observing Bacteria and Blood- Lab #1 Purpose: Being able to learn how to correctly use a microscope and the oil immersion lens to be able to see the prepared slides. Also to learn how to prepare my own yogurt and blood slides. Procedure: First‚ set up the microscope. Clean the ocular lenses and objectives with lens paper. Then pace the prepared e slide on the stage and make adjustments. Turn the rotating nosepiece until the 10x objective is above the ring of light coming through the slide
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Human Embryonic Kidney(HEK) 293 cells were transiently transfected with pEGFP-N1(Clontech‚ Palo Alto‚ CA‚ encoding enhanced GFP as an indicator of transfection) and pEGFP-LeIF plasmids cloned at previous studies(Ghafarifar and et al‚ in press) by Calcium phosphate and non- tranfected cells was used as negative control. briefly‚ Hek-293 cells were grown at 37°C in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM‚ Gibco) supplemented with 10% Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS‚ Gibco) and 5% CO2. Log-phase cells were employed
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What is it? Folic acid is a water soluble B vitamin. It is used during pregnancy to prevent Neural Tube Defects (NTD’s). NTD’s are birth defects of the brain‚ spine or spinal cord (MedlinePlus). They can be fatal depending on how bad the injury is especially if it is to the brain. Folic acid works with vitamin B12 in the formation of red blood cells. Deficiency in both folic acid and vitamin B12 causes a certain type of anemia known as macrocytic anemia. Macrocytic anemia is a type of anemia that
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All about Laser Hair Removal Laser hair removal is a type of medical procedure that makes the use of laser‚ a pulsating intense light beam to take out unwanted hair. During this process‚ a laser radiation is made to penetrate through your skin to reach out to each of the hair follicles individually. Under the intensity of this extreme heat induced by the laser rays‚ the hair follicles get damaged inhibiting hair growth in future. Although this treatment delays hair growth to a great extent‚ however
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Chemotherapy is a type of treatment that uses drugs or a combination of drugs to treat cancer. What I will be talking about in this blog is the effect that chemotherapy has on the body. The goal of chemo is to stop or slow the growth of cancer cells in a certain area but it can work throughout the whole body. Side effects happen when chemotherapy damages healthy cells. There are many effects that chemotherapy has on your body. Chemotherapy has a big effect on the brain and can cause problems
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The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis usually begins with physical examination. Directed questions from the doctor about the signs and symptoms and examine the affected joints. In addition‚ the doctor may recommend: 1- blood tests: in people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis‚ blood tests check the speed of sedimentation (precipitation) red blood cell (which is screening measures the speed of deposition of cells red blood in a sample of blood - Erythrocyte sedimentation rate - ESR)‚ usually‚
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3.2. How do the therapeutic cancer vaccines work? Therapeutic vaccines do not directly kill cancer cells. Their aim is to activate and instruct the dendritic cells‚ by making them capable of inducing a specific anti-tumour immune response. In particular‚ the aim of therapeutic cancer vaccination is to activate cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL)‚ which are the main soldiers of the immune system against cancer cells. 3.2.1 What are dendritic cells and why are they important? Dendritic cells are a family
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Discussion Board for Ch. 15 p. 456 Clinical Case Study: Evaluating an abnormal CBC 1. Note that the platelet count is very low. How does this affect the patient? Discuss measures to protect him. 2. Note that the white blood cell count is abnormally low. With the second line of defense impaired‚ how should the first line of defense be protected? Roger‚ like many other cancer patients is suffering from thrombocytopenia‚ a condition in which a person’s blood has a remarkably low level of platelets.
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MATERIAL AND METHODS 1. Materials: 1.1. Experimental animals: The experiment was carried out on 30 adult healthy female rats weighing 190 20g and 10 young (6-7) weeks –old male albino rats from which bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) were isolated. Animal were purchased from the animal house of the faculty of Medicine Mansoura University. The animals were housed in standard stainless steel cages at room temperature 25-28ﾟC‚ humidity of (50-60%) and maintained at 12 hrs alternating day
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