And the result, the underfed mice lived much longer than the normally fed ones. Student: Wow! Does that just go for mice? Professor: Apparently not. Similar results have come from experiments on other animals from roundworms to most recently Rhesus monkeys. ...
Explain the mode of action of cholera in the human intestinal tract. What is the mode of transmission? Explain how antimicrobial resistance, superbugs affects human health. How does bacterial meningitis affect humans? How do people become infected with pinworms? How do people get infected with asc...
Phagocytosis is the process in which white blood cells will ingest and digest foreign antigens. The phagocytosis is a response utilized in the immune system to destroy antigens, but it is also used in the maintenance of cells that undergo apoptosis....
Ringworm has nothing to do with worms. The cause of ringworm is a common fungus that infects the skin and causes a scaly and bumpy red patch to form on the infected area. It is highly contagious, and ringworm can spread by contact or by sharing clothes that have also come in contact w...
Environmental sex reversal (ESR) is the change of the sex of an individual from male to female or female to male at a specific time in the environment. Creatures with sex reversal mainly have both male and female reproductive organs in their bodies, usually expressing only one, and at a la...
Virus techniques have developed and evolved as our technology has. The writers make use of the most common technologies to infect the most people in the shortest time. There's always a foot race between those who write the viruses and the companies that develop the antidotes. The virus ...
“If you’re really good at recognizing kin, that limits the cost of cannibalism,” he said. “If you recognize kin and avoid eating them, you can afford to be a lot more cannibalistic in a mixed population, which can have evolutionary benefits.” ...
have been appointed[k]to me. 4If I lie down, I say,[l]‘When will I arise?’ And the night stretches on[m] and I toss and turn restlessly[n] until the day dawns. 5My body[o]is clothed with[p]worms[q]and dirty scabs;[r] ...
GHK probably originated from an ancient marine protective system that protected cells against free, toxic copper and was swept into mammals on the tides of evolution. It predates modern growth factors and cytokines. GHK aids the differentiation of Ascaris suum roundworms. Roundworms are one of the...
the human body constitutes a fine-tuned perceptual system, which explores its surrounding by an intricate interplay of motor behavior (including movements of the eyes, the head, the limbs, or the whole body) and sensory receptors (including eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin; Gibson1966). Wh...