Atrophy

Muscles (Grip strength) In this week’s lab, we was doing an experiment on forearm, and its muscle fiber with nerves. The forearm is a part that between the primates’ elbow and wrist. Forearms contain connective tissue, nerve tissue and muscle tissue. In which, connective tissue is just radius and ulnar bones. However, there are a great deal of muscles and nerves in the forearm. When a nerve impulse transmission to synaptosomes induced depolarization, allows calcium ions to enter the cell…

called as shaking palsy. Parkinson’s disease has been around for a very long time and dates to around 5000 B.C. There are different conditions and problems that are like Parkinson’s disease like Essential tremor, Lewy-body disease, Multiple system atrophy and Progressive supranuclear palsy. These can be mistaken for Parkinson’s disease do with their similarities symptoms the abbreviation to Parkinson’s disease is Parkinson's disease. PD comes in second common physical…

Muscular dystrophies (MD) are diseases that causes muscle mass loss and weakness (this is normally in children but can happen in adults). This is caused by abnormalities in genes that interfere with proper production of protein to form healthy muscles for voluntary movement. When the brain sends signals to a muscle to contract, it goes through the spinal cord and peripheral nerves to the neuromuscular junction, releasing the chemical acetylcholine that triggers muscle contraction. From here,…

In the video Managing Menopause, by Kathryn Macaulay, M.D. she explains what Menopause is, the causes, symptoms as well treatment that is offered to the women who are going through this stage in life. The video opens with explaining that menopause is not a disease, but in fact is a natural process women will experience in their later adulthood. Menopause as defined by Macaulay is “the permanent cessation of menses for 12 consecutive months,” usually this natural process can begin around the age…

Parents should not designer their babies because it dangerous and the baby could possibly have something wrong with it. Technology is also changing the life of some new children. This ultimately changes their life, sometimes for better or for worse. While it may seem to some that designer babies are beneficial, they actually cause more harm than good because it goes against nature. Technology has had a tremendous effect on how we live our lives ranging from how we find information to the way we…

Introduction Motor neuron diseases (MND) are a group of pathologies in which motor neurons are selectively affected. Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a member of this group, affecting both upper (UMN) and lower motor neurons (LMN) [1]. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease [1], with an estimated incidence in Caucasians of about 1,2-4,0 per 100,000 person-years [2]. ALS incidence increases with age, being more frequent between the 6th and 7th decades and in women more than men…

Primary adrenal insufficiency (also known under the eponym Addison’s disease) occurs when the adrenal glands situated on top of the kidneys produce inadequate amounts of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid hormones. Autoimmune destruction of the aforementioned glands is the most common cause of primary adrenal insufficiency in the developed countries, whereas tuberculosis is the second most frequent cause worldwide. A plethora of autoimmune comorbidities can be associated with primary adrenal…

Symptoms usually begin in early adulthood but can begin in middle age if it is mild. Symptoms can include schwannomas, brain tumors, tinnitus and hearing loss or deafness, cataracts, spinal tumors, balance problems, muscle atrophy, focal neurological issues, headaches, and pain. Neurofibromatosis affects the brain, nerves, and spine. Doctors generally use the same diagnostic tests for Neurofibromatosis type 1 that they use for type two aside from to diagnose type 2 an ear…

serotonin toxicity due to the large amount of serotonin present in the supplements (Lopez, A. M., Kornegay, J., & Hendrickson, R. G., 2014). In multiple studies, in which obese lab rats who were given Garcinia Cambogia had been observed with testicular atrophy and toxicity it had been observed in other studies before when Garcinia Cambogia was added to the diet of rats (Saito, M., Ueno, M., Ogino, S., Kubo, K., Nagata, J., & Takeuchi, M.,2005). “Among the laboratory findings and symptoms there…

“I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.” -Heidi Klum Every single one of us here have probably been disappointed in our lifetime. However, awful the storm of disappointment is, the most important part of disappointment is how we respond to it. We can either respond to it in a negative way or a positive way. When the going gets tough…