Kaposi's sarcoma

Justin bleeds so easily because he has a blood coagulation disorder that is brought on by blood clotting which is called Hemophilia A or Hemophilia B depending on which factor is deficient within his body (VIII or IX). In Justin’s case we are not presented with enough information to diagnose his type of hemophilia. However, a deficiency of either one of these factors can lead to problems with blood clotting that can cause severe bruising and bleeding even with minor trauma. It is possible that…

lytic proteins of herpesviruses a key role in avoiding host immune responses, including disruption of interferon signaling. For example, cytomegalovirus, EBV, and Varicella-Zoster virus inhibit IFN-γ-induced MHC class II expression. In addition, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus avoid the immune responses by encoding proteins which interfere with interferon signal transduction and subsequent gene transactivation…

Welcome to the Beautiful World of Aids In 2013, 26,688 people were diagnosed with AIDS. What is AIDS? And when did it start? If you have never heard of AIDS, please stick around and read this. You may think AIDS is a simple 4 letter word but it stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. But then again anything about this syndrome is not simple at all: treatment, medication, lifestyle, and history. So welcome to the beautiful world of aids. What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)…

Both types of HIV, type 1 and 2, are believed to have been transmitted to humans from primates in the West-central Africa region early in the 20th century. It seems that HIV-1 originated from southern Cameroon through the emergence of a simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, that infects wild chimpanzees. On the other hand, the closest relative of HIV-2 is a different viral strain of SIV that infects the sooty mangabey, an Old World monkey native to forests in West Africa coastal regions. HIV…

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNCCC) is the sixth most common cancer known worldwide with an incidence of 0.5 million new cases diagnosed annually, around half of these cases are oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) (Jithesh et al., 2013). Though numerous risk factors have been implicated in the development of OSCC , the most important are tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and betel-quid chewing (Petti et al., 2013). Evidences suggested that viruses are involved in oral…

Influences of Epigenetics on Cancer Introduction Cancer before epigenetics History of cancer. Cancer is characterized by an out of control growth of tissues within one’s body. These cells are known as a mutated tissue cells, and these resulted in a new replication patterns. The word cancer was derived from the term carinas and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming or ulcer-forming tumors by the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C). Studies over the centuries have been trying to determine…

Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PCP). By 1982 it had gained many other names, ‘GRID’ ( gay-related immune deficiency),’ gay cancer’, ‘community-acquired immune dysfunction’, and ‘gay compromise syndrome’. by the month of June in 1982, 355 cases of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and/ or other serious infections in young people that were once…

don’t know. Now that we have a knowledgeable foundation let’s delve into an abbreviated history of HIV/AIDS. AIDS was first discovered in 1981. It began with several reports of young, homosexual men with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) which was unusual to find in young people who didn’t have a history of an ineffective immune system. Doctors began to find an immunodeficiency in injecting drug users (Can you see where the misconception of HIV being exclusive to…

In molecular biology, individuals use different techniques to obtain data for their research. These methods include His and GFP tagging which play an important role in experimental studies. His tagging is widely used for purifying and detecting large amounts of targeted proteins (Kaplow et al., 2009). GFP tagging can aid in the analysis of protein geography, movement and chemistry in a living cell (Lippincott-Schwartz and Patterson, 2003). A His-tag is a sequence of approximately six histidine…

success or gained such notoriety with mainstream. However, there is enough evidence within the scenes to suggest how this disease affected the gay community. For example, scene 4 page 21, Prior uncovers the first of numerous lesions caused by Kaposi's sarcoma, one of the many sicknesses that can assault the body because of AIDS. He portrays the sore as the "wine-dim kiss of the blessed messenger of death" (Kushner 21). Back then in the 80s this usually meant that death was not to far AIDS…