Respiratory system

organs. When nicotine is breathed in by the individual, it only takes about ten seconds for it to reach the brain. Nicotine leads to an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. Not only does it affect the brain and heart, it also affects the respiratory system, as well. Due to this, individuals who smoke experience persistent coughing and the excessive production of phlegm. While smoking leads to hundreds of health issues, there are, in fact, ways that cigarettes assist in preventing certain…

The lymphatic system is a serious of ducts, nodes, nodules and lymph vessels among other structures and components that teams up to fight off bacteria and foreign substances that enter the body. The system is part of the immune system and it relies on various types white blood cells called lymphocytes that fight off bacteria, reduce inflammation, and respond to allergic reactions. The white blood cells are produced in the marrow of the bones beginning as stem cells. The stem cells…

The Life Of A Sugar Glider In this essay we will go deep down into the life of a sugar glider. We will cover what they eat both in captivity and in their natural habitat. What kind of medical issues they have, and how long their life span is both in captivity and in the wild. Sugar Gliders are omnivorous and if you don’t know what that means it means they will literally eat anything that you put in front of them. To be a successful sugar glider parent you have to know that they have three basic…

Today almost all children are protected by vaccines. Immunization shots contain a weaker form of an illness. It is injected into your body for your immune system to learn to fight off. Parents are questioning whether vaccines should be mandatory or optional for their child. Parents should be required to give their children immunization shots before entering public school. Vaccines will protect students from spreading epidemics. Vaccines are also effective and safe to give students. Finally,…

maintaining blood pressure and oxygen levels. One of the main supportive treatments involving keeping the patients well hydrated and helping them to breathe as easily as possible, so that they attempt to beat the virus with the strength of their own immune system. Although this type of intensive treatment is not guaranteed to help a patient recover, it can happen. Timo Wolf, together with his colleagues, in his research article titled “Severe Ebola virus disease with vascular leakage and…

families and the U.S regulators ever sense the FDA approved the vaccine. Vaccines became one of the biggest accomplishments to society. Vaccines are made to prepare the immune system by arousing the antibodies and encouraging them to fight and defend the body from infectious diseases; it provides a boost for the defense system. They were created to protect many against the flues, polio, tetanus, rubella, hepatitis B, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis, chickenpox and HiB disease. Noted the department…

superoxide dismutase are seen in all bacterial subspecies. On the other hand, the most important enzymatic system relating to host cells is NADPH oxidase. For this reason, the clear aim of this mini-review is to discuss about the intracellular life cycle of Francisella tularensis and important enzymatic machineries in association to bacterium and its host cells. As a result, all of the biological systems including bacterial (prokaryotic)…

Bordetella pertussis, also known as whooping cough is a bacterial infection of the upper respiratory system. Symptoms range from that of a common cold too short periods of apnea and in extreme cases death. Pertussis is a highly contagious disease that can affect anyone but is more common in children and in infants. Although this disease is preventable and treatable it is currently and continually on the rise. The whooping cough is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. B.…

highly contagious and usually fatal disease. Transmission of the disease is usually via contact with discharge and secretions from the eyes or nose of an infected dog. If it's left untreated it causes seizures, convulsions and ultimately heart and respiratory…

We have all had a virus at one point. Sometimes I go to the doctor with my mother and he will say something like, "all the tests came back negative so he probably has a virus." That seems a little confusing because you would think they could tell what the virus was, but there are so many viruses that sometimes we as humans just catch a virus and have to deal with it. Obviously some viruses are not as powerful, but some are very serious and could even lead to death. Two common viruses are…