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By dr rend-san
20 Mar 2010

The Effect of Dehydration on the Body's Fluid Volume

Water and electrolytes for production of sweat by sweat glands come primarily from extracellular sources. These sources comprise plasma water and interstitial tissue water. There is a rapid exchange of water between plasma water and extravascular sources. Even if total body water declines in work, it would seem that the level of plasma water is retained to the very last, which means, in turn, that water losses in absolute figures are primarily made up from intracellular water.

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 March 2010 21:09
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By dr rend-san
08 May 2010

Insulin Preparations And Storage

Until the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1980s, insulin was purified from porcine or beef pancreatic tissue. Human recombinan insulins are now the most widely used forms and are the recommended first line preparations in the paediatric age group. Bovine insulins remain a useful second line group of insulins, especially in the very young and in those in whom there seems to be an exaggerated tendency to hypoglycaemia at the time of peak action of the insulin preparation.

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By Fallen
29 May 2010

How the Eye Floaters Occur

When you are getting older, you can see many parts of your body look older too. One of the obvious proofs in your body that gives signal that you are older is your eyes. The older eyes will give result the development of eye floaters, the strange black and gray objects that abruptly sail along through the eyes. Thus, to know further about the exact causes of eye floaters and this eye floaters cure, here will be given to you the brief details about eye floaters.

In details, the following are common causes of the eye floaters. The first one is the vitreous humor area of the eye that may liquefy a small amount. For many ageing people, this process is normal and everyone will get through it. According to trusted source, when the vitreous humor shrinks, it pulls away from the surface of the eyeball. Afterward, it sags, and clumps up and it gets stringy. When there is tiny shadow on the retina that caused by bits of debris, this is how the eye floaters appear.

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:12
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By dr rend-san
14 Dec 2009

Vertigo, Illusion of Movement

Vertigo is a type of dizziness that you feel a sense of movement yourself or your surroundings. You have an illusion of movement- you feel yourself are spinning or your environtment are moving horizontally or vertically. The spinning often affects your balance. Vertigo and dizziness are not the same thing, but often use them interchangeably.

The problems in the brain and the inner ear can cause vertigo. An acute asymmetry or imbalance of neural activity between the left and right vestibular systems cause the most vertigo. A determination should also be mae as to whether the origin of vertigo- "peripheral or central".

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 23:27
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By HC-Team
22 Jan 2010

Skin Pigments

Many factors governe skin color such as thickness and consisteny of the stratum corneum, epidermis and connective tissue, blood supply, blood color, presence of caratene, and melanin. Melanin is the most important factor.  The epidermis and dermis contahn melanocytes- cells capable of melanin synthesis. The melanocytes originate in the neural crest. The melanin granules in the melanocytes differ the light-skinned races from the dark-skinned races. But, the number of melanocytes don't differ them. There as as many melanocytes in black skin as in white skin. The amhno acid tyrosine, the copper-bearing enzyme tyrosine and oxygen affect pigment formation in the melanocytes.  Tyrosinase oxidizes tyrosine via dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa), dopaquinone, and other intermediate states to melanin. While the first oxidation stage requires the presence of an active enzyme-tyrosinase, the further steps are instigated by other more or less nonspecific factors. Non specific factor such as radian heat, can change precursors of melanin.

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