Liver

growing problem for many Americans. As of 2016, Hepatitis C (HCV) receives the attention as the new infectious disease in the United States and countries around the world. Hepatitis C has become a persistent developing virus that can cause serious liver infection if not treated. The Virus was identified in 1989, as non-A non-B hepatitis. It is refer to as the “Silent Epidemic”. For years HCV blood borne disease has infected individuals without any knowledge of symptoms. The symptoms are usually…

stage liver complications. The patient’s alcoholic cirrhosis denotes that the patient has developed this irreversible disease over the span of years that have gone undetected and untreated, that begun with alcoholic hepatitis and progressed all the way to alcoholic cirrhosis, due to the overconsumption of alcohol and his socioeconomic status (homeless). Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by inflammation of the liver. In hepatitis, the inflammatory response causes edema to form in the liver…

The digestive system of a dog is composed of; the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, and large intestines but also requires help from organs such as the pancreas, and liver. The digestive systems roles are: digesting of food absorbing of nutrients Dog's digestive systems work differently to that of a human, for instance the digestion process begins in the stomach for dog's and in the mouth for humans. It is important for owners to have some idea of how the digestive system…

Some people have no symptoms then later realize they have a disease known as hepatitis C. It is an infection of the liver, the virus comes in many forms. Here in the U.S the most common form is type 1. Also the most common way of getting it is by the use of unsafe practices for example injections and improper sterilization. According to the article What Is Hepatitis C, about 3.5 million people have the disease. Knowing the signs and symptoms, if there are any cures, how can it be prevented, and…

Liver failure, caused by things such as hepatitis and cirrhosis, leads to an array of symptoms including cardiorespiratory insufficiency (hepatopulmonary syndrome; HPS) and renal failure (hepatorenal syndrome; HRS). Disregarding the cause of liver failure itself, discuss the development of both of these symptoms. Hepatopulmonary Syndrome Figure 1: Blood Flow in Normal Conditions and Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (Grace & Angus, 2013). Figure 1 (above) shows the blood flow in a normal patient (top),…

mood naturally. * Body Chemistry Normalizer Ginseng contains numerous compounds that work synergistically to improve the immune system and adrenal functions. Researchers have found that ginseng can help detoxify the body of toxins, regenerate the liver and strengthen the gastrointestinal tract. When the body is functioning properly and your body chemistry is normalized, weight loss will…

The liver is the organ that has multiple functions to the human body. Some of these functions are the production of certain proteins that for blood plasma, cholesterol, and storage of glucose and releasing when the body needs it. All of these functions can be distrusted when the liver cells are effected which leads to liver cancer, also known as hepatocellular carcinoma is a cancer that grows in the liver cells. These cells are malignant, and abnormal growth of liver cancer. Also liver cancer is…

Cirrhosis is a late stage of progressive hepatic fibrosis which is a consequence of almost all chronic liver diseases; the main causes of liver cirrhosis are chronic viral infections (B, C or B+D), alcoholic etiologies and lately non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) (1). Around 50% of patients with cirrhosis have esophageal varices (EV), and one-third of all patients with varices will have variceal hemorrhage, representing an incidence of 5% and 15% in patients with small and large…

Elevation of bilirubin levels may be due to interfering of CCL4 with bilirubin synthesis and discharge of bile acids , cholesterol and bilirubin (38). CCL4 may affects the integrity of liver cells , by the same manner it effect on the structure and function of erythrocyte membrane and increase the erythrocyte fragility , this in turn leads to erythrocyte hemolysis and hemoglobin breakdown (39).On other hand, increase of bilirubin in CCL4…

solution into the measuring cylinder with the liver it and marked the froth volume, while I timed the whole procedure. We both kept an eye out on the temperatures of the water baths and the temperature of the kidney and solution inside the test tubes so that one person didn’t have to watch all of them. This allowed more precision…