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Types Of Cancer Genital Warts
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Current Research On Muscular Dystrophy
576 wordsDuchenne's muscular dystrophy is the result of a defective gene on the X chromosome. This gene is responsible for production of the muscle protein dystrophic. Dystrophin is an integral part of the dystrophic-glycoprotein complex which bears the brunt of the force generated during muscular contraction. When dystrophic is not produced, the dystrophic-glycoprotein complex (DCG) is not present. Absence of the DCG leads to tears in the muscle membrane because the muscle membrane bears the force of mu...
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444 wordsMeasles, also rubeola, acute, highly contagious, fever-producing disease caused by a filterable virus, different from the virus that causes the less serious disease German measles, or rubella. Measles is characterized by small red dots appearing on the surface of the skin, irritation of the eyes (especially on exposure to light), coughing, and a runny nose. About 12 days after first exposure, the fever, sneezing, and runny nose appear. Coughing and swelling of the neck glands often follow. Four ...
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888 wordsGenetic engineering and gene therapy are an essential part in today's medicine. They have led to the discovery of many new treatments for "untreatable" diseases. They have provided cost efficient solutions that require much less procedure and can be permanent rather than temporary. The solutions are also more effective then before and through the use of transgenic plants and animals, can be easily produced. Gene knowledge has sparked interest and continues to supply discoveries of new applicatio...
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346 wordsTechnical Virus Invaders Katie Turner Technical Writing Period 7 Virus Invaders, written by Alan E. Nourse, M. D. , explores different viruses and our bodys defenses against them. This book traces the history of the discovery of viruses, and discusses the difficulty of identifying them, major diseases caused by viruses, the present state of virology, and the prognosis for the treatment. This book is an up-date examination of the structure and function of viruses that covers how they invade the b...
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University Of Michigan Muscular Dystrophy
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Health Care Services Gay And Lesbian Community
716 wordsProtease inhibitors. For more than a decade, researches and physicians tried to develop new treatment to fight HIV. They came up with some drugs; however, these drugs have proved to be usefulness. They did not cured HIV, but slowed it down. Today, a new class of drugs is providing a New Hope against fighting HIV: protease inhibitors. Protease inhibitors are antiviral drugs. They interrupt the way HIV uses a healthy cell to make more viruses. When HIV enters a normal healthy cell, its concerned w...
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Gene Therapy Germ Cells
1,087 wordsHow does gene therapy work? All life contains genetic information in the form of DNA. DNA can be reproduced and passed on to subsequent generations. A gene is a stretch of DNA that contains the blueprint for the sequence of amino acids making up a particular protein. Proteins are vital because they are used in catalyzing various biochemical reactions, they act as messengers, they regulate cell growth, development and reproduction, transport oxygen in the blood and are a defense against diseases....
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Hepatitis B B Virus
271 wordsThe Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) HBV is a mostly double-stranded DNA virus in the Hepadnaviridae family. HBV causes hepatitis in human and related virus in this family cause hepatitis in ducks, ground squirrels and woodchucks. The HBV genome has four genes: pol, env, pre-core and X that respectively encode the viral DNA-polymerase, envelope protein, pre-core protein (which is processed to viral capsid) and protein X. The function of protein X is not clear but it may be involved in the activation of h...
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Genital Herpes Herpes Virus
1,063 wordsHerpes has been Herpes Herpes Herpes has been around for a very long time. So long that it very likely predates the human species. Herpes derives its name from the Greek word herein, which means to creep or crawl. The physicians of Greece, treating herpes over 2, 000 years ago, described herpes of the mouth and herpetic sores in the groin, which traveled around the flank and genital regions. Throughout history many a physician attempted to understand the herpes virus. Due to similarities amongst...
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Chicken Pox Viral Infection
1,069 wordsChicken Pox Media CHICKEN POX Chicken Pox is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus. It is contracted by contact with actual lesions or by respiratory secretions and there is a 10 - 21 day incubation period during which your child is developing the illness but does not show any symptoms and is not contagious (until the very last 1 or 2 days before the pox appear. ). Once the vesicles show up there are likely to be many more on the way for between 3 and 7 m...
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835 wordsThe title of a book cannot be copyrighted, but anyone who chooses to use Microbe Hunters in any book title has either enormous chutzpah or vaunting ambition. The original Microbe Hunters, written by Paul de Kruif in 1927, probably did more to proselytize young minds into careers in medicine and science than any book ever written. (See Richard Rhodes intriguing tour of prion diseases: He begins with a young Nobel Laureate-to-be, Carlton Gajdusek, who, after reading de Kruif's chronicle, carves th...
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Multiple Sclerosis Hundred Thousand
1,002 wordsJason Garoutte November 18, 1996 English / Mr. Blunt Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is one of the most misunderstood diseases of this century. Since it s discovery, there is still no known causes, no proven treatments, and no known cure, yet it affects possibly five hundred thousand people in the United States alone. People need to learn more about this disease so it can be brought to the attention of the nation. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. It destroys t...
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Signs And Symptoms Infectious Diseases
1,203 wordsIntroduction to viruses: For centuries submicroscopic organisms, also known as viruses, that grow and multiply at different rates inside of a cell, have been circulating our planet. 1 The cell produces the various, essential components of the virus. These components are: 1) DNA or RNA nucleic acids, which are the genes of the virus. Viral particles posses either DNA strands or RNA strands, but never both in contrast bacterial infections contain both. The amount of DNA/RNA in a virus changes depe...
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Spinal Cord
806 wordsGuillain-Barre Syndrome, (also called acute idiopathic polyneuritis, and Landry s ascending paralysis) is a disorder in which the body s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nerves, those outside the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms of this disorder include weakness or tingling in the legs, sometimes the weakness or tingling spread to the arms and upper body. These symptom s then increase in intensity, until the muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is almost totally paralyzed, mo...
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