Lymphocyte

In the outpatient setting older adults are often informed they have Aortic Valve Stenosis (AVS) but they are unaware that they have problem. They do not feel short of breath except maybe with significant exertion however their Echocardiogram indicts there is AVS. AVS is the third most common cardiovascular disease and frequently effects older individuals (Akerstrom, Barderas & Rodriquez-Padial, 2013). AVS is a progressive disease which does not show significant problems until greater than 50%…

Sunglasses at MBIS? Do you wear sunglasses? Well, at MBIS you don’t. Students at MBIS should be able to wear sunglasses at school because it can prevent eye damage and eye cancer. We should also examine why we shouldn’t to get a balanced view. Teachers at MBIS wear sunglasses, but kids aren’t allowed. Us kids are the future. Sunglasses protect the skin around your eyes. The skin around your eyes, including your eyelids, is the thinnest and most sensitive skin on your body which means that it…

the body through the gastrointestinal tract, there must be a method by which the immune system is suppressed in order to prevent potentially harmful immune responses resulting from encountering these antigens. It is thought that intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) regulate innate and adaptive immune responses, and because there is one IEL per ten intestinal epithelial cells, suppression of the immune system occurs frequently in the gut – in particular, the mesenteric lymph nodes. Microbiota in…

symptoms (DRESS) syndrome, also known as drug-induced hypersensitivity Syndrome (DIHS) presents clinically as an extensive mucocutaneous rash, accompanied by fever, lymphadenopathy, hepatitis, hematologic abnormalities with eosinophilia and atypical lymphocytes, and may involve other organs with resultant damage in several systems. The pathogenesis is related to specific drugs (especially the aromatic anticonvulsants), altered immune response, sequential reactivation of herpes virus, and…

In chapter 13 the key points of focus are stress, health and coping. As defined by the cognitive appraisal model, stress is a negative emotional state that is in occurrence to events that are seen as appraised as taxing or exceeding one's resources. Psychologists that study stress and other psychological factors that influence health, illness and treatment are health psychologist. Events or situations that produce stress are known as stressors. Significant sources of stress include daily…

protects the immune system by removing old and unhealthy red blood cells (Wein , 2016). Only during the embryonic stage does the spleen produce red blood cell, platelets and granulocytes but it produces lymphoid cells throughout its entire life. Few lymphocytes, mostly T-cells, comprise the majority of the cells in the spleen (Krause, 2008). Oxygenated blood…

TIOPURINES IN THE IBD TREATMENT SCENARIO Thiopurines are regarded as the first line of remission maintenance treatment in CD in a strategy known as accelerated step-up18-25. Thiopurines (azathioprine - AZA and 6-mercaptopurine-6-MP) are pre-drugs. AZA is activated by the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HGPRT) enzyme, whose metabolite, 6-thioguanosine 5-monophosphatase (TGMP), after a series of reductions becomes dGS (deoxy-6-thioguanosine 5-triphosphatase), the final metabolite…

Immunity! To start with a personal experience, I have a brother who is almost two years old, Cullen. My family put Cullen in a school that also was a day care for babies. Cullen being around lots of sick babies ultimately got sick too all the time. Thinking about it having him exposed to those germs and bacteria will in the end build a strong immune system for him. So, immunity refers to resistance to disease. The innate defense system and the adaptive defense system. The innate defense system…

Virus In the early 1800’s two scientists by the name of Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch discovered an infected particle in which was smaller than any bacteria and would soon be known all around the world as a virus (Emiliani, C. 1993). Viruses are the causes of a huge number of diseases in humans. Such as, small pox, a common cold, chicken pox, influenza, shingles, herpes, polio, rabies, and AIDS. These are only some of the viral infections. In some cases, cancer may up rise from the virus,…

79-110 million people are currently infected and the worldwide risk of HPV infection at least once in their lifetime in both men and women is 50% (Handler et al., 2015). The risk of being infected with HPV is 24% after someone becomes sexually active if they are also under 25 years old (Foreman et al., 2012). Worldwide, cervical cancer is the 3rd most commonly diagnosed cancer and is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in women with a higher mortality rate in developing nations (Handler…