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Case Summary Ms. Charles is a female who presented with a gradual onset of seemingly unrelated symptoms that progressively worsened throughout her life. As a child she developed multiple dental caries and periodontal disease. A few years later, she began having dry mouth symptoms; generalized myalgias and arthralgias; and chronic eye irritation and blepharitis, which did not respond to over-the-counter eye drops, allergy medications, or pain medications. She was evaluated by multiple physicians…

lump it was a very deep cut. Coby then turned around to see a very fast moving wall of tears an saliva, most likely from the host after suffering this injury. Coby ran at an amazing speed, dodging the droplets flicking off of the wave and avoiding dried up mucus. Coby was within arms reach of the deep cut when he leaped high into the air and just barely made it into the cut before a humongous wall of saliva and tears rolled over, Coby sighed…

It is that time of year again. The time where the leaves change color, the temperatures go down, and everyone gets sick. The cold and flu season has arrived and everyone is at risk. Germs and viruses are being spread and many try to take the proper precaution to avoid them. One group that is particularly at risk is infants and newborn babies. Since their immune system is still developing and it is not as effective as that of an adult, infants can get sick easily and take long to recover from it…

usually worrying, most people often recover from Bell's Palsy. Nonetheless, patients find themselves unable to control their muscles on the face. The affected side of the face starts to droop, and it can sometimes impede the production of tear and saliva (Henkel, Lange, Eiffert, Nau, & Spreer, 2017). One might find out that he/she has abruptly contracted Bell’s Palsy because it does not develop gradually. It is imperative to note that most people are not familiar with it. As a result, those…

alterable in healthy people, they have assumed considerable importance in forensic medicine in the analysis of genetic variability, human genetics & anthropology [1]. The property of individuals to secrete these antigenic substances in body fluids such as saliva, gastric juice, seminal fluid etc. is termed as the secretor status. A pair of alleles Se and se determines the secretor status. The knowledge of secretor status can be applied for tissue transplantation among other applications [2].…

For those who regularly visit their dentist office in Sunnyvale TX, you probably realize the importance of caring for your teeth. Everyone is told from an early age that oral hygiene is important, but still there are some who are reluctant to do what is necessary to prevent the inevitable dental problems that will occur as a result of their neglect. People may be aware of the fact that there are a number of dental problems that a person can experience at any age regardless of them putting forth…

Introduction Ebola virus (EBOV) is a filamentous, negative sense single-stranded strand RNA virus under the Filoviridae family [1]. It is a large virus, approximately 970 nm long, and 80 nm in diameter [2]. EBOV is infamous in the African continent, causing hemorrhagic fever in both humans and nonhuman primates in the African continent [1], where outbreaks have been unpredictable and usually resulting in fatality. Since its discovery in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo [3], EBOV still…

Physical evidence that is left behind in a crime scene plays and important role in reconstructing the various events that took place during the crime . Crime scene reconstruction depends upon joint efforts of law enforcement personnels, medical examiners and criminologist to find the physical evidence and to understand the events that surrounds the occurrence of a crime. If there is a bloodstains then the location and the distribution of the blood stain along with the spatters maybe useful in…

taste bud will began to lose mass. While the bitter and sour taste buds may last a little bit longer the sweet and sour are the first to decrease. Dry mouth and difficultly swallowing may occur with aging because the mouth may not produce as much saliva. The sense of touch includes vibration and pain. The brain can interpreted whether a touch is pleasant or unpleasant. However many older people have a decrease in touch and sensation as the age which can make it hard for the to tell the…

The Fat cat and the Doggy Door: dysregulated stress response A stress response in the human body goes through something called the HPA axis. It’s a system that activates the body to fight or flee in response to a stressor. Let’s take your neighbor's fat cat, Fuzzy, and introduce an aggressive Husky that makes a bee-line for him when he’s let off his leash. When Fuzzy sees the dog he experiences a stress response to the danger. The danger is processed in hypothalamus inside fuzzy’s brain, which…