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HEALTH AND FITNESS NUGGETS
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This site is designed to discuss issues on health,medicine,dieting,diseases,health news,pharmacy,and so on.
- Added on: Apr 13th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Jude Ojei
- Listed in: General Health Medicine
- Tags: fitness health medicine health news diseases biochemistry
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MALARIA FEVER-A DEBILITATING GLOBAL DISEASE
Malaria fever is a disease caused by the cytoxoic protozoon, Plasmodium spp. This parasite is transmitted by an infected female Anopheles mosquito during a blood meal. There are four types of Plasmodium spp viz; Plasmodium falciparum (causes malignan...
DNA FINGERPRINTING AND ITS MEDICAL IMPORTANCE
A DNA fingerprint is the pattern of fragmented DNA molecules obtained from electrophoresis. Restriction enzymes are used to cleave DNA molecules into specific fragments that can easily be analyzed. Examples of restriction enzymes include EcoR1 , mst ...
HAEMOGLOBINOPATHIES-PATHOGENESIS AND MANAGEMENT
Haemoglobins are globular proteins found in red blood cells. They are able to bind molecular oxygen and transport oxygen through the lungs and other blood vessels in the body. Haemoglobin variants include;haemoglobin A, haemoglobin S, haemoglobin C,...
GLUT TRANSPORTERS AND DISEASES
Glut protein family mediate glucose transport or uptake in a wide variety of cells. The term “GLUT” is derived from glucose transporter. They are facilitative hexose transporters. GLUT transporters are uniport systems (i.e they transport only on...
IODINE REQUIREMENT AND GOITRE
Iodine is one of the halogens. It is one of the essential micronutrients needed by humans. The body contains 20-50mg of iodine and is an essential component of the secretions of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland synthesizes, stores and secretes ...
URIC ACID AND ITS CLINICAL CORRELATIONS
Uric acid is the end product of purines and nucleic acid metabolism in man. Uric acid emanates from two routes; from oxidation of purine moieties of degraded nucleic acids (i.e Ribonucleic and deoxyribonucleic acids),from glycine via a direct pathway...
