Complement system

diabetes mellitus (DM) and CVD. The way by which periodontitis affect systemic health or health conditions affect periodontitis is through releases of inflammatory cytokines. Periodontitis provoke a series of events involved in immune system of the host.(1)during inflammation the inflammatory cells…

All humans are designed with two types of immunity; innate and adaptive. The innate immune system can distinguish between different classes of pathogens and recruit the most effective form of adaptive immune response to eliminate them. Adaptive responses are a response that the body adapts to certain injuries or insults. Innate responses are non-specific to the insult. Unlike innate immune responses, the adaptive responses are highly specific to the particular pathogen that induced them (Alberts…

more likely to affect elderly individuals with weakened immune systems such as those with autoimmune disease or like our case study, a 60 year old patient having severe chronic alcoholism. Klebsiella Pneumonia has evolved ways to overcome host immunity for example possessing a capsule composed of polysaccharide. This capsule can protect the bacterium from being phagocytosed by granulocytes, and can also inhibit the activation of complement components thus prevents bactericidal factors causing…

Lee couldn't count on any internal team to build this platform, as he feared that the team would be biased towards their product and add features to the platform favouring their product. He also felt that if the new platform replaced VisualAge, existing product lines would have less influence and the team managing the platform will gain power. To gain the momentum for his idea, Lee wanted to assign OTI with the job of building the platform. OTI had skills in developing platforms and they had…

According to Dr. Jade Teta, it doesn't matter what age you are, you can switch back on the same body-rejuvenation abilities you had when you were younger. He says that traditional workouts are not the answer and that they can actually do more harm than good, but when you how to work out the way he talks about in Metabolic Prime, you will not only find yourself losing weight easier, you will be protecting yourself from future disease. But, can this program really give you back the metabolism of…

frequently lethal infection tetanus he word tetanus originates from the Greek word tetanus, which anticipates the meaning to stretch. Tetanus is described by unbending nature and sudden contractions of skeletal muscle and infection within the integumentary system, skin (Tortora, et al., 2016). Bacterial cells, similar to plant cells, are surrounded by a cell wall. However, bacterial cell walls are comprised of polyacrylamide chains connected to amino acids, while plant cell dividers are…

Goodpasture’s Syndrome, also known as Goodpasture’s Disease, antiglomerular basement antibody disease, or anti-GBM disease is an autoimmune disease affecting the lungs and kidneys. In this rare disease antibodies are formed that attack the collagen in the lungs and kidneys leading to kidney failure and bleeding in the lungs. The laboratory plays an important role in the diagnostic process of Goodpasture’s disease. Patients will experience edema, joint pain, changes of urine color, and…

Background MS (MS) is an auto immune disease which affects neurons of the central nervous system. A neuron consists of three main parts: an axon, dendrite, and a cell body. The axon is usually myelinated with a substance known as the myelin sheath, created by oligodendrocytes. This consists of twenty percent protein and eighty percent lipid. Each oligodendrocyte creates enough myelin to wrap around several axons. The periodic gaps between the neurons are known as nodes of Ranvier, where the…

Clostridium tetani is a bacillus, or rod-shaped bacteria responsible for the often-fatal disease tetanus. The word tetanus originated from the Greek word tetanos, which means to ‘stretch’. It is a Gram-positive bacterium and often appears to be shaped like a tennis racket, drumstick, or club when stained. This unusual appearance is the result of sporulation that occurs within the cell. C. tetani is an obligate anaerobe and relies solely on fermentation. Since it is an obligate anaerobe, this…

Internal marketing focuses on ensuring that employees gain not only knowledge but commitment to the desired corporate culture and image. Unsurprisingly, majority of internal marketing activities are aimed at creating messages that “proactively influence employees’ knowledge and understanding of the desired brand image” (Mangold and Miles 424). It is in the context of the need to manage information and knowledge exchange from the organization to its employees that information technology…