HS 130 Unit 4 Assignment Fantasy Voyage and Battle of the Lung Hello everyone and welcome aboard! I am S Y. with Voyage Health. Today‚ we will embark together in my mini-sub and we shall travel through the body of this young lady named Lola. In this journey we will enter her body through the femoral vein and travel all the way to her lung. Alert! Alert! An alert just came and we are in for a surprise. Bacteria have invaded Lola’s lower lobe of her right lung and we shall report the invasion
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Faculty of Medicine MAHSA UNIVERSITY STUDY GUIDE Block: Genetics‚ Immunology & Molecular Medicine (GIM) Session: 2013/2014 Semester 1 (Year 1) MBBS PROGRAM Block Coordinator: Dr Selvi Palasubramaniam CONTENTS 1. Teaching Staff & Contacts 2 2. Academic calendars MBBS Session 2013 / 2014 3 3
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| Help build the future of Wikipedia and its sister projects! Read a letter from Jimmy Wales and Michael Snow. | [Hide] [Help us with translations!] | DNA vaccine What is antisense technology? Antisense refers to opposing the normal order (“sense”) of the code in DNA. The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in genes directs cells to assemble the proteins which comprise living creatures. The order of bases in DNA corresponds to the ordering of amino acids to form the proteins. To produce protein
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injected into the patient’s femoral vein‚ let me explain what our journey will entail. The first destination will be the lower lobe of the right lung. The patient’s immune system has been fighting an evil invasion of bacterium in the lung‚ and it is our assignment to document the battle. Once we have witnessed the patient’s immune system in action‚ we will head across the alveolar membrane and onward out the nose. Let get started on this incredible journey! We are now located in the right femoral
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000 Americans die of pneumonia‚ an inflammation of the lungs that’s usually caused by infection with bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi or other organisms. Pneumonia is a particular concern for older adults and people with chronic illnesses or impaired immune systems‚ but it can also strike young‚ healthy people. Worldwide‚ it’s a leading cause of death in children. There are many kinds of pneumonia ranging in seriousness from mild to life-threatening. Although signs and symptoms vary‚ many cases of pneumonia
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Week #1 -autotrophs are organisms that harvest light or chemical energy in organic compounds. They self nutrition -heterotrophs are organisms that get complex nutrients from the environment (by eating other organisms) -Fungi are heterotrophs or predators because they are parasitic. Bread mold secretes digestive enzymes to enter the membrane. Same as foot fungus‚ it extends hyphae (fungal branches) into the cells to absorbs nutrients -One fungus makes traps for nematode worms while another fungus
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that is considered the second most dominant in the world. This disease has very interesting components that includes a location of where it likes to “live” in the human host‚ distinct symptoms‚ virulence factors that help defend against the host immune system‚ and how it can survive from host to host. All of these factors go into what is necessary to thrive and spread its life‚ however by understanding how this bacteria functions‚ the human population has the ability to learn from it and treat and protect
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This disease is mainly found in children under the age of 15. When the respiratory system is infected‚ the most common location for growth is in the throat. There‚ the bacteria attach to the surface of the respiratory tissues‚ then produce and release its toxins where they are quickly absorbed into the body. Respiratory diphtheria is transmitted
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Primary Source: Tumor Microenvironment Topic Summary Cancer has become one of the world’s leading trends in diseases‚ both in discussion and in medicinal related research. Major insights and discoveries within cellular biology can be accredited to the drive of understanding and curing cancer. The battle of cancer began to rise in public attention around the era of Henrietta Lacks‚ who provided the world’s first immortal cell line. Most research of the time‚ and even up to the past decade‚ was targeted
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