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American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
1,044 wordsCancer of the prostate is defined as a malignant tumor growth within the prostate gland. The purpose of the prostate gland is to surround the urethra, which is the tube within you urinary system that carries the urine from the bladder to the penis, the male sex organ. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 180, 000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in the United States. The American Cancer Society also states that from these 180, 000 cases, and approximate 32, 000 men die fr...
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Child With Down Syndrome People With Down Syndrome
1,266 words... n of excess hydrogen peroxide, a known cellular toxin that causes progressive cell damage (Whitaker 1997). It is widely accepted that a major disruption of the body's free radical defense system that results in excess production of potent free radicals such as H 2 O 2 would cause generalized progressive cellular damage resulting in both mental and physical disability (Whitaker 1997). Hearing loss occurs more frequently among individuals with Down syndrome than in the normal population. Becau...
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Central Nervous System Thyroid Gland
523 wordsHow do humans react to the ferocious roar of the bear? Why do humans have headaches and stress out when come upon to do certain tasks? The environment, genes and chromosomes, and the central nervous system are factors to answer these questions. The human psychological characteristics and behavior are built by a combination of these factors. Psychologists use these factors to determine peoples psychological makeup and behavior. However, a persons characteristics come primarily from their genes. F...
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Optic Nerve Nerve Impulses
1,069 wordsThe Eye is the organ of sight. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye, the nervous system, and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he / she is really seeing is the light that the object reflects, or gives off. This reflected light passes through the lens and falls on to the retina of the eye. Here, the light induces nerve impulses...
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American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
697 wordsProstate Cancer is a malignancy of the prostate gland, a walnut-sized organ located under the bladder in males. The prostate gland surrounds the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the penis. The American Cancer Society estimates that 317, 100 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States and that 41, 400 men die from the disease each year. It is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in American men. The specific cause...
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Legal Abortions Birth Control
1,188 words... us be left to the individual instead of the state (Wennberg, 82). In my opinion the right to bear children or not shouldn't be just a woman's decision. Why must women's liberation be related to her independent choice and not with a socially intellectual choice where all parties find a middle ground? The statement that the abortion argument is a part of a larger sphere, which includes feminism and that the powers that be are trying to put an end to this, is based on speculation. If this were ...
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Amino Acids Peptide Bonds
367 wordsA gastric gland is a tubular structure in the vertebrate stomach that secretes gastric juices. The gastric glands have three types of cells that secrete different components of the gastric juice. One of them is being a chief cell, which is a rust color and is an inactive form of the digestive enzyme Pepsin. Pepsin begins the digestion of proteins in food. Pepsin is a Peptidases, which is an enzyme that breaks peptide bonds of proteins. Pepsin is found in the mucosal lining of the stomach that br...
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Parts Of The Body Prostate Cancer
928 wordsProstate cancer is cancer of the prostate gland. The prostate is part of the male reproductive system. This gland is locates inside the body at the base of the penis, just below the bladder and in front of the rectum. It is composed of the glandular and fibrous tissue enclosed in a capsule of connective tissue. The prostate is in the shape of a donut and about the size of a walnut. It surrounds the first inch or so of the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder. Normal functions of...
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The After Effects Of Chernobyl Accident
396 wordsThe After-Effects of the Chernobyl Accident Some of the most significant effects of the Chernobyl accident are radiation sickness disease and radio phobia. Chronic radiation sickness disease is a disease that progresses as a result of division of cells under the short influence (up to several days) of ionizing radiation. After the explosion in Chernobyl, hundreds of people received large doses of radioactive irradiation, causing acute sickness disease. The most abundant diseases in post-Chernoby...
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Ventromedial Nucleus One Eating
307 wordsThe part of the body that motivates eating is the hypothalamus. The small gland is located in the midline at the base of the brain, just below the hypothalamus, and interacts closely with the pituitary gland and acts in coordination with the reticular formation. The two components of the hypothalamus dealing with hunger are the lateral hypothalamus and the ventromedial nucleus. The lateral part is what allows a person to feel hungry and sends out signals to the rest of the body that one is ready...
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Form Of Depression Personality Traits
975 wordsOne of the scariest emotional experiences a person can ever suffer during their lifetime is to experience a form of depression. Over one in five Americans can expect to get some form of depression in their lifetime. Over one in twenty Americans have a depressive disorder every year. Depression is one of the most common and most serious mental health problems facing people today. However, depression is often not taken seriously because of the large use of antidepressant drugs and the large number...
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Men And Women Percent Of Women
772 wordsAn article in Scientific American called " Why are so many women depressed" , by Ellen Liebenluft, focused on the reason why females are more depressed than males. First, Depression comes with a variety of symptoms. For example, a person suffering from depression may experience sleep disturbances, hopelessness, and feeling of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, experience fatigue and sometime even delusions. Depression is very common among women. If affects nearly 20 percent of wo...
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Spinal Cord Brain Stem
572 wordsIn medicine, ACHONDROPLASIA is known as being undersized, or less than 50 in. in height. Having short limbs, a normal sized trunk, large head with a depressed nasal bridge and small face. This is a result of a disease in the thyroid gland. It can also be caused by Down syndrome or absorption, a cartilaginous tissue during the fetal stage. Hypochondroplasia, a mild form of dwarfism. Spinal tuberculosis and the deficiency of the pituitary gland secretions. Treatment with thyroxine or thyroid extra...
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Holt Rinehart And Winston Eating Disorders
916 wordsThere are many different types of eating disorders in our world today and many suffer from them. Young women, and the reason is unknown, are the main targets (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 147). I believe young women are more apt because of the ideal media, newspapers, magazines, etc. Thats how they feel they need to live up to, and also they are more emotional and are in that stage of life where things like this matter a lot. There are two very common eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia. Anor...
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Eating Disorders Blood Pressure
784 wordsThere are many different types of eating disorders in our world today and many suffer from them. Young women, and the reason is unknown, are the main targets. I believe young women are more apt because of the ideal media, newspapers, magazines, etc. Thats what they feel they need to live up to, and also they are more emotional and are in that stage of life where things like this matter a lot. There are two very common eating disorders: anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder...
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Somatic Cell Therapy Germ Line Therapy
1,206 wordsScience has allowed for advances in production, transportation and even entertainment, but never in history will science be able to effect our lives, as genetic engineering will undoubtedly do. By understanding genetic engineering and its history, discovering its possibilities and answering the moral and safety questions it brings forth, perhaps scientists will be able to create a world where gene defects, bacterial diseases and even aging, will be a thing of the past. Genetic engineering was fi...
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Endocrine Glands Amino Acids
1,069 wordsHormones are organicHormi? one Introduction Hormones are organic substances that are secreted by plants and animals and that function in the regulation of physiological activities and in maintaining homeostasis. They carry out their functions by evoking responses from specific organs or tissues that are adapted to react to minute quantities of them. The classical view of hormones is that they are transmitted to their targets in the bloodstream after discharge from the glands that secrete them. T...
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Serotonin Levels Large Amounts
863 wordsand the Mdma MDMA and the Affects on the brain OUTLINE Introduction 1. Brief History A. Originally created in 1912 as MDA (methylenedioxyamphetamine) B. In 1970 s interest in MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) for the Aid of Psychotherapy. -Key Effects a. empathetic understanding for others b. large, uncontrolled release of emotions C. When used Clinically, intended result was to have an affect on the Psychodynamic equilibrium (helped to bring repressed material into the walking consciousness)...
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Sleep Wake Serotonin Levels
611 wordsSunlight is the most important survival factor in human life. Actually, it is the light from the sun at a speed of 186, 000 miles a second from a source 93 million miles away that rates with food, water and air support system on earth. (R. B. 2) The sun is a necessary factor in our lives that help our entire body function properly. Light is as effective as drugs, perhaps more so, writes Anna With-Justice of the Psychiatric Clinic in Basel, Switzerland. (Chamberlain 2) And a specialist in neurolo...
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Effects Of Steroid Anabolic Steroids
969 wordsWhat are steroids? Steroids are a drug that are mainly used by people who are involved in sports. They are also used by people who are affiliated with making themselves stronger. Steroids are drugs that are injected into the body, usually through the anus with hypodermic needles. The drug is chemical hormone. Steroids control growth, metabolism, and blood chemistry. The two main kinds of steroids are corticosteroids and sex steroids. Corticosteroids are released by the adrenal gland. Corticoster...
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