This is a dangerous, naturally occurring compound that has deadly effects on the human body, especially the respiratory system. Carbon monoxide is one of the deadliest poisons as it is odorless, colorless, and tasteless, and as such, it is very difficult to detect and becomes easy to become overexposed too. Upon excess inhalation a person will experience lightheadedness and vertigo, but can also damage the heart and nervous system until the person suffocates. Key Idea 5 Arsenic is a dangerous poison used often in rat poison.…
Tetanus is caused by the Clostridium tetani bacterium. Clostridium tetani spores are able to survive for a long time outside of the body. They are most commonly found in animal manure and contaminated soil, but may exist virtually anywhere. When Clostridium tetani enter the body, they multiply rapidly and release tetanospasmin, a neurotoxin. When tetanospasmin enters the bloodstream, it rapidly spreads around the body, causing tetanus symptoms.…
Their poison is highly toxic. The most toxic poison dart frog is the golden poison dart frog. The frog has enough poison to kill 10 grown men. Scientists say the frogs poison is as deadly as a gun. It's because they get their poison from what they eat.…
I am reading Toxin by Robin Cook and I am on page 222. This portion of the novel is about a cardiac surgeon named Kim. Kim seems to be found in a mid life crisis, recently being divorced, and struggling to pay for his house and other prized belongings. He also has a young daughter named Becky, and since he is divorced he doesn’t get much time to spend with her. After finishing a operation on a patients heart, Kim headed over to his ex-wife’s house to pick up his daughter Becky, because it was his turn to look after her.…
Mojave Toxin in the Mojave Rattlesnake Neurotoxins are an often studied, naturally occurring set of chemicals with vast potential toward a variety of applications. These toxins are produced by countless different species of animals: amphibians, insects, arachnids, and even birds, just to name a few. Neurotoxins, a specific class of toxins, act by impairing or artificially enhancing neurotransmission at the pre-synaptic or post-synaptic level (Camp & Gilbert, 2014, para. 1-5). Neurotoxins affect an animal’s central nervous system by disrupting the flow of action potentials.…
Gas gangrene belongs to the genus Clostridium (Carlisle 2014). It’s a non-motile, gram-positive, anaerobic, and spore-forming bacillus (Carlisle 2014). The most common etiologic agent that causes gas gangrene is called Clostridium perfringes. This can enter your body through open wounds and eating poorly cooked meat. Since C. perfringes is an anaerobic bacterium, it uses energy by using anaerobic respiration and Nitrate as an electron acceptor.…
In Lars Eighner’s essay “On Dumpster Diving”, Eighner writes to the general middle and upper class American about the day to day life of an average Dumpster Diver. Written in an almost how to guide format, Eigner shows the reader that the average diver not only can find interesting items in the garbage, but also make a living off of it by finding food that is safe to eat. Written throughout by Eigner, However, is a counter argument that goes to show just how wrong the normal stereotypes of a Dumpster Diver are and to redefine the population of divers to show that they are indeed also human by using his own knowledge and experience on the topic.…
The polysaccharide capsule obtained from B. Anthracis prevents engulfment by macrophages as well as preventing opsonization of the bacterium. Toxin…
Tapirs are large mammals that belong to the Perissodactyla order (Galetti et al. 2001). They are the only species currently present from the Pleistocene megafauna, which makes them the ideal mammal capable of dispersing large seeded fruit in Central and South America (Simpson 1980, Eisenberg 1981). Although there are currently four species of tapirs (Norman and Ashley 2000), this essay will focus on the lowland tapir, Tapirus terrestris. It is important to note that the mountain tapir, Tapirus pichaque, will be mentioned along with significant concepts relating to it. It is postulated that although tapirs are mainly generalists, they are capable of focusing on a main food source.…
Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a pathogenic bacterium. C. diphtheriae is generally not motile, club-shaped, no capsule. It is aerobic but can survive without oxygen (faculatively anaerobic), gram-positive bacillus. Many stains require pantothenic and nicotinic acids for growth, other strains require biotin, thiamine and pimelic acid to grow.…
Vytorin is a prescription drug that helps with reducing the amount of “bad” cholesterol, known as low density lipoproteins, absorbed by your body with a combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin (Vytorin). The advertisement has pictures of food on the left side and then a picture of a person who looks like the food on the right side which is supposed to represent people in your family (G). They do this in order to show the two main causes of increased cholesterol. By the end of the commercial you don’t really remember anything about the drug except that it is supposed to lower cholesterol and they used strange pictures. While they are saying things such as “from that pie, creamy banana, and your mom Julliana”, they speak extremely slowly, but while they are talking about the possible side effects and who wouldn’t take this prescription they speak a lot faster.…
Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the release of toxic biological agents. Common biological weapons are anthrax, botulism, plague, and smallpox. The plague has been one of the most devastating epidemics to mankind, second only to smallpox. Humans can become infected after being bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents. The plague develops rapidly and carries a high fatality rate despite immediate treatment and antibiotics.…
Write about the pseudoscience example that you researched. Colon cleansing claims to flush out poison toxins that linger in the body from the food we eat and the environment we live in (EverydayHealth.com, 2015). Those that believe in colon cleansing think the method of removing those toxins will make them feel better. The process of colon cleansing is using a tube that is inserted into the colon and up to 20 gallons of fluid is pushed into or through the colon. The fluid could contain enzymes and probiotics.…
Immunization: “the creation of immunity usually against a particular disease; especially treatment (as by vaccination) of an organism for the purpose of making it immune to a particular pathogen” (Merriam-Webster). This method of eradicating a disease has gone on for many years, dating back to the 1700’s, when Edward Jenner studied Cowpox and small pox immunity. Immunization first began in the United States in 1721 when a Puritan Minister Cotton Mather, encouraged smallpox vaccination in response to an outbreak (History of Vaccines). Through the evolution of the medical world, the immunizations have become more potent, mandatory, and also thought to be linked with serious ramifications after being administered in the human body—especially…
A toxin is a antigenic poison that comes from microorganisms. Toxins come from various places like the body, environment, foods, and personal products. Not all toxins are alike, there are different forms of toxins that fall in different categories. Food toxins for example would be different than environmental toxins because of where they originate and are introduced to the body. Yes toxins do make it difficult to lose weight because the more toxins in our bodies the more fat cells are used to store theses toxins for removal…