Questions tagged [pathology]
The study of diseases, including their causes and effects.
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Question on Plasmodium presence in RBCs
Malarial parasite can be obtained in RBCs of patient
When temperature reaches normal
An hour before rise in temperature
When temperature rises with rigor
A few hours after temperature reaches normal
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Why does acidity/basicity affect accumulation across a membrane (ion trapping)?
At steady state, an acidic drug will accumulate on the more basic side of the membrane and a basic drug on the more acidic side. This phenomenon, known as ion trapping, is an important process in drug ...
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Does more evolutionary time result in a healthier population?
A lot of people ask why a particular human condition still exists if it's maladaptive to reproductive success (it should have been weeded out). And the answer all the time is that if the individual ...
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A question about vitiligo
Say a woman has vitiligo. Then she takes medicine and achieves a full cure, but she also wants children.
Is it safe for women with vitiligo to have a baby? She is worried her baby will get vitiligo ...
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Are cockroaches attracted to the dust particles is that a primary reason that I have cockroaches in my kitchen? Would like to know more about yhat
Same as title, are cockroaches attracted to the dust particles is that a primary reason that I have cockroaches in my kitchen?
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What particular genetic mutations gave Europeans increased resistance to smallpox?
It's widely stated that a large chunk of the Native American population was wiped out by diseases (Notably smallpox) introduced by European colonists to which the natives did not have a resistance. My ...
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What are the current theories on what causes the sunflower sea star wasting disease?
There's a prion disease that has wiped out 97% of sunflower starfish, and the only thing I can find about it is there's a small subsection of the starfish who are genetically immune.
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Why doesn't the immune system ever destroy the glucagon-producing alpha cells in the pancreas? Why only insulin-making beta cells?
Our pancreas does multiple thing, yet I only ever hear of the beta cells in the Islets of Langerhans being annihilated.
Why is this?
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Is bacterial "colonization" restricted to human body surfaces not the deep tissues?
This seems to be the point where the perspective of human beings from a medical viewpoint intersects with that from an ecological perspective.
Colonization is the presence of bacteria on a body ...
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Relationship of disease to alternative strand - microRNA-3p or -5p
I am working in a project involving microRNAs in a cohort of patients (controls and cases of coronary artery disease). I got results from sequencing of HDL-lipoprotein involving diferentially ...
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Portal hypertension
"Portal hypertension is more frequent and manifests in more complex ways in chronic liver failure than in acute liver failure (Fig. 14.7). It stems from increased vascular resistance coupled with ...
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Does aerobic exercise increase the incidence of disease via free radicals?
Aerobic respiration produces ROS, atleast one of which (the hydroxyl radical) cannot be neutralized by any known antioxidant and is always damaging surrounding tissue. I know ROS plays a role in ...
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Do humans produce an immune response to their own antibodies?
As far as I know, T and B cells form a part of the adaptive immune response in humans. In their early stages, these cells undergo genetic recombination to produce a diversity of antigen receptors/...
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Prevention of disease spreading in animal kingdom
It's my first question on here, so I'm not sure If my question fits the theme. Please refer me to the appropriate one, If I have made a mistake.
So a question that I wanted to ask has to do with ...
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Can plants be pathogenic towards humans?
In googling this question you’ll only find articles about plant pathogens jumping over to humans eg candida auris and pseudomonas aeruginosa.
My question is, like fungi can be infectious to humans (...
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