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News & UpdatesRadicava (edaravone) approved for ALS by FDA
What is Radicava? Do you remember the Ice Bucket Challenge, the challenge that carried out by most famous people and passed to others as an awareness campaign for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ALS is a rare disease that attacks and kills the nerve cells…
May 5, 2017
GeneralUnderstanding The Ebola virus [Video]
How does Ebola virus attack the body? Good video for better understanding how the Ebola virus attacks human body! How does it take over the body cells as well as other interesting info and statics. You can read more about Ebola virus here or here. Ebola virus latest info on CDC website: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html
Oct 10, 2015
Patho-physiologyHow does metastatic melanoma cells look like?
Click image to enlarge In melanoma cells (Evil Cells) : Yellow color : The podosomes . Blue Color : Cell nuclei. Red Color : actin. Green Color : actin regulator. The proliferation of melanoma cells depends on their actin rich core structure as described above with its colors. Source of image : NCI Center for…
Apr 24, 2015
GeneralPharmacology basics and definitions – Easy [Part 2]
To find part one please click here .. :biggrin: We mentioned in the previous part two steps of Pharmacokinetics ( Absorption and Distribution ) in this part we will continue the two steps of pharmacokinetics ( Metabolism & Excretion ). 3. Biotransformation (Metabolism) : The step where the drug structure changed thus its properties also…
Jan 30, 2015
Drug factsNew promising treatment for Diabetes
Doctors in china discovered a new interesting technique to treat diabetic patients in brief , They make a surgical procedure in which they take some blood from the patient , extract stem cells from WBCs then , these stem cells are injected to his sick pancreas making it activated again and able to secret insulin…
Dec 7, 2010
PhysiologyCheif cells
Chief cells in the stomach wall secrete pepsinogen, which HCl activates into the protein-digesting enzyme pepsin, with a Chief of Pepsi-Cola memory hint.
Aug 1, 2010