Hepatocellular carcinoma

Definition and Causes of Short Bowel Syndrome The patient in this case study was immunocompromised due to Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) which predisposed her to discitis infection. SBS is a disorder that hinders the absorption of nutrients and fluids usually after extensive small intestine resection (Tee, Wallis, & Gabe, 2011). An average person’s small intestine is 600cm long (Sundaram, Koutkia, & Apovian, 2002). In SBS, the small bowel has been shortened at least 70 percent (Sundaram et al.,…

Medical Marijuana Benefits The negative view of marijuana and its effects have changed drastically in recent years. The medicinal benefits of marijuana have been highlighted in peer reviewed studies globally, and a push to change its illegal status has been a hot political issue amongst law makers and the medical community alike in recent decades. Most countries including the US, have laws against the use, possession, sale, and cultivation of marijuana. Even so, marijuana is the most commonly…

Hepatitis is an inflammatory disease of the liver. The term hepatitis is most often used in conjunction with viral hepatitis, but the disease can also be caused by bacteria or toxic injury to the liver. It should be noted that whether hepatitis is bacterial, viral, or toxic, this disease can result in post necrotic cirrhosis, unless the hepatitis responds to treatment. Viral hepatitis is by far the most important liver infection and is a major health problem in the United States. The term viral…

cancers in humans; an estimated 626,000 patients are diagnosed with the disease each year and the numbers are continuously rising (Buendia). Currently, two types of liver cancer exist: primary and metastatic. Primary liver cancer consists of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC), cancer that starts in the liver tissue, and cholangiocarcinoma, cancer that develops in the bile ducts of the liver. Metastatic liver cancer is caused by metastasis from cancer cells in other organs and tissues that spread to…

The liver will never return back to normal due to the depletion of normal liver tissue for fibrotic tissue. Liver cirrhosis can lead to many complications, such as, ascites, portal hypertension, hepatorenal syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatocellular carcinoma, and ultimately complete liver failure. 6. Signs and Symptoms Furthermore, clinical manifestations of liver cirrhosis all depend on how far the disease has progressed and it can often be asymptomatic for many years. “The most common…

INVIVO AND INVITRO STUDIES ON CHEMOPROTECTIVE EFFICACY OF RESVERATROL IN BREAST CANCER 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 BREAST CANCER: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and it is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women worldwide. Diet and Nutrition play a key role in carcinogenesis process, as reflected in the global differences in breast cancer incidence worldwide. High fat content, meat and low fiber diets were associated with high breast cancer incidence rates whereas…

The Microbe Hepatitis B virus belongs to a group called, Hepadnaviridae which consists of diseases that contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and affect the liver. Hepatitis B is a virus therefore; hepatitis B requires a living host to replicate viral particles. Hepatitis B consists of a nucleic acid core, a protein coat, and a lipid envelope. The hepatitis B virus contains a partially double-stranded DNA within the nucleic acid core because one of the full-length strands is linked to the viral…

In Uganda, a being a doctor is both an interesting and challenging job. Everyday am faced with terminally ill patients yet for some of them you can barely do anything to change the situation; however, most of these patients have the largely preventable illness but they come to the hospital when the disease is adverse. Of course, there are various reason to explain this scenario in the Ugandan Context. Most people point out the lack access to essential health care and medicines as the cause of…

Liver Cirrhosis Liver Cirrhosis is considered to be one of the deadliest disease among men and women nationwide. With its leading cause of death and illness mostly in the United States, roughly 5.5 million people, which is 2% of the U.S. population are affected by Cirrhosis. In essence, 26,000 deaths occur each year, but who/what age range does this disease usually affect? What are the causes and symptoms? Can it be cured? Let’s take a look at the facts and statistics! In the human body system,…

HepG2 cells were obtained from American type culture collection (ATCC), USA (ATCC No. HB-8065). This cell line is derived from a liver hepatocellular carcinoma of a 15 year old Caucasian male. After thawing, cells were maintained as a sub confluent monolayer in a 75 cm2 culture flask using the modified DMEM medium with 10% (v/v) FBS + penicillin-streptomycin (50 units/ml). The cells were used to experiments after two weeks of thawing from cryopreserved stock. On the day of harvest, the cell…