Atherosclerosis is a cardio vascular disease that is described when the arteries thin and toughen. This disease starts when the endiolethem lining in the body gets hurt. It can be caused by multiple things such as smoking, high cholesterol or high blood pressure. Over time, a clutter of cholesterol and white blood cells make a panel in the artery. The symptoms do not usually show until older age, but it can cause pain or blood clots. This disease can also cause people to have strokes. Most of…
These tests are the tuberculin skin test (Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test) and TB blood tests(Interferon-Gamma Release Assay). These two test cannot determine if a person is in the latent period or if they have developed TB.5 Treatment used for TB include a six to nine month series of antibiotic drugs such as isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and…
The proximate composition of purple soymilk (Table 1) is not much different from that of yellow soymilk. Purple soymilk has protein, ash, fat, carbohydrate and moisture content 2.76 ± 0.13, 0.12 ± 0.08, 1.17 ± 0.06, 1.27 ± 0.10, and 94.69 ± 0.04% respectively, while yellow soymilk from Tunde-Akintunde and Souley [35] has a protein content of 2.23-3.05%, ash content of 0.24-0.32%, fat content of 1.60-1.94%, carbohydrate content of 1.99-2.78% and moisture content of 92.02-93.29%. Black soybean…
Everyday people contract this harmful virus known as, Hepatitis. Hepatitis is a disease characterized by inflammation of the liver. There are five types of hepatitis; A, B, C, D, and E. Types B and C lead to chronic disease in hundreds of millions of people and, together, are the most common cause of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Hepatitis A and E are typically caused by ingestion of contaminated food or water. Hepatitis B, C, and D usually occur as a result of parenteral contact with…
Trade Name: Daklinza Generic Name: Daclatasvir Daklinza is a newly the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) approved drug to treat patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 3 infection.4 The company that markets the drug is Bristol-Myers Squibb, located in Princeton, New Jersey. The date of approval by the U.S FDA for the drug is July 24th, 2015. Although, Japan was the first country in the world to approve the drug , now the drug is being marketed in U.S, including northern and central…
It’s important to get rid of warts on your fingers as soon as they appear to avoid spreading them. Many of the treatments for common warts are effective for growths on your fingers. I Want to Know How to Get Rid of Warts on Fingers How Can I Get Rid of Warts Growing on My Fingers? You’ve noticed warts appearing on your fingers. If it had just been one, you might have not been too concerned, but more are appearing. You need to know how to get rid of warts on fingers, and you need to know ASAP.…
University of Oklahoma Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Cody Clay HES-1823-003 Professor Joshua Carr 23 November 2015 Cody Clay Professor Joshua Carr HES-1823-003 23 November 2015 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, inevitably fatal brain disorder that eats away at the infected person’s brain and can have many different potential causes (NINDS). There are four types of CJD; Sporadic or Classical CJD, the most common form, which occurs for a still unknown reason,…
Multiple Sclerosis is a very common disease in people around the world. For instance my beloved grandmother got diagnosed with it in 1958. She had primary progressive MS and it is known to be the worst type of MS out of the four different types. Right off, she started having symptoms such as double vision, problems driving, problems walking, tingling, and weakness in her legs along with getting infections easily. She lived at home and my grandfather hired a special nurse to stay with her all day…
Ms. M is a 27-year-old women who recently moved from her hometown Minneapolis, Minnesota to Salt Lake City, Utah for a job offer. She lives alone and works as an English teacher at the East High School in Salt Lake City since the beginning of the school year after her graduation last summer. Since it is the first time she has her own classes, it is sometimes quite stressful for her even if she likes her job. The past few years, she reported numerous neurological complaints which came and went…
IC.3. Specific Aims: Specific Aim1: Role of NK cells and neutrophils at different disease stages of MmuPV1 infection Rationale: The role of innate immune cells in HPV-associated cancers has been investigated in human studies (55). However, how these cells fight against papillomavirus infection at different disease stages remains unclear (8). We recently established persistent mucosal infection in immunocompetent heterozygous (Foxn1nu/+) NU/J mice. When compared with immunocompromised homozygous…