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    Tobacco use is the number one leading cause of death in America than other health disease related, such as AIDS, heart disease, cancer and etc. The event happens in 1964, a surgeon reports about the cause of smoking, this has mark the beginning of the prevention process of today society. However, the level of people smoking in the 1990 is still increase in the population of adult and adolescent. The explanation about this increase could do with the condition of addiction to nicotine and being exposures

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    Neurodegeneration

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    Neurodegeneration is a name used for a variety of conditions that have an effect on neurons that are within the brain. Neurons are a major component of the nervous system which is made up of the brain and spinal cord. If the neurons become damaged the body can not replace them. There are many neurogenerative diseases which include Alzheimer's,Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. Most of the diseases are not yet curable so in the result of this, the brain's neurons start to die because of this

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    Neonatal Epilepsy

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    are more subjected to early-onset of epilepsy because of the common complications of labor in human, such as hypoxia-ischemia and pre-eclampsia. Such complications may cause major damage in the neonates’ brain, including inflammation, neuronal degeneration and other types of damage-related brain injuries. In recent years, great number of evidence point to inflammation as a potential pathway

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    Alzheimer’s disease: this is most common cause of dementia.Brain cells are surrounded an abnormal protein and internal structure also damaged.In time chemical connection are between brain cells are lost and some cells die. Symptoms may include difficulties with find right words,solving problems,making decision or understand things in three dimension Vascular dementia: Lack of oxygen supply to the brain due to the narrowing and blockage of blood vessels and that part will damage or die.The symptoms

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    Brain Disorders: Apraxia

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    dysfunction in the cerebral hemispheres of the brain which is the parietal lobe. It can transpire from many ailments or simply damage to the brain. (NINDS, 2005) Apraxia is often accompanied by the Aphasia language disorder. The corticobasal ganglionic degeneration is known to cause apraxia and its various types. Normally, apraxia results from left-sided lesions. It could also be bilateral in its manifestation. “Apraxia of speech is an articulation disorder that results from impairment due to brain damage

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    Homeostasis Essay

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    mechanism and break down mechanism of the joint. Imbalance homeostasis occurred when anabolic effect is slower than catabolic effect of the joint. This will result in joint instability (Goldring MB, 2006). Osteoarthritis is often associated with degeneration and destruction of articular cartilage. Pathophysiology of the disease is complex which involving of pro-inflammatory cytokines and growth factor that affects the joint homeostasis (McNulty et al, 2013). Recent studies shown increase production

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    DOI: 5/31/2016. Patient is a 58-year old male foreman who sustained a work-related injury to his neck, back, and pelvis due to a motor vehicle accident. Per the medical report dated 09/13/16 by Dr. Grimm, the patient complains of pain to his neck and low back, without radiation. There has been improvement since the last visit. He notes that the pain is worse with activity, and alleviated by home exercise program (HEP). Upon examination of the lumbar spine, there is tenderness present and moderately

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    Alzheimer's Disease Essay

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    The disease functions by causing neurons to degenerate and lose their synapses with other nerves, thus cutting down severely on the intercellular communication which lies at the heart of all behavior. (1). Degeneration is characterized by clumps of beta amyloid (a protein fragment derived from amyloid precursor protein, or APP) called neuritic plaques which form outside and around neurons, as well as by the twisting and 'tangling' of a neuron's microtubules,

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    Essay On Blood Pressure

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    Some drawback of this study are that all participants were males, and that they were not able to determine whether changes in OxLDL, ICAM-1, and VCAM-1 were a result of increasing doses of CJC or the duration of the study. Furthermore, a placebo group was not used. Although, only men were tested and a placebo group was absent, other studies show similar results. Another study, looking only at women, found that cranberry juice significantly increases plasma antioxidant capacity and decreases oxidized

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    Almost all biology students learn the fundamentals of gene expression, DNA contains information which is transcribed into RNA to create protein. Students however, are not taught of RNA Interference, the biological process where RNA molecules inhibit a gene’s expression, RNAi for short. While RNAi is a fairly new discovery, its use in modern biological research is groundbreaking. RNA Interference works by binding Double-stranded RNA molecules (siRNA) to a complementary messenger RNA. The enzymes Dicer

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