Practice nursing care for Clients with HIV/AIDS and other Immunodeficiencies A deficient response of the immune system resulting from a missing or damaged immune component is an immunodeficiency. An immunodeficient person’s immune system cannot recognize infectious agents or other antigens and eliminate them. Thus the immunodeficient person cannot defend
GENERAL MORPHOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION. EXUDATIVE INFLAMMATION. PROLIFERATIVE INFLAMMATION: NONSPECIFIC AND SPECIFIC. MORPHOLOGY OF GRANULOMA Inflammation is a complex reaction to injurious agents such as microbes and damaged, usually necrotic, cells that consists of vascular responses, migration and activation of leukocytes, and systemic reactions. The unique feature of the inflammatory process
Pathology of pituitary gland and hypothalamus THE HYPOTHALAMIC – PITUITARY RELATIONSHIPS Hypothalamus The hypothalamus modulates the activity of the pituitary gland (hypophysis) via 2 distinct routes, one to the posterior and other to the anterior pituitary. The hypothalamus is connected with the posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis) by the supraopticohypophyseal nerve
Acid-base equilibrium in biological systems. Buffer solutions. A buffer solution is an aqueous solution consisting of a mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base or a weak base and its conjugate acid. It has the property that the pH of the solution changes very little when a small
Theme: Basic biorheology and gemodynamics Amount of hours: 6 hours Place of leadthrough: physical laboratory. І. Practical work – 9:00-12:00 (3 hours) Method of implementation of practical work: Theoretical information Here we survey modern methods for measuring the hydrodynamic properties of biological macromolecules and for calculating the hydrodynamic properties
Introduction of bioorganic chemistry. Classification, structure, chemical properties of organic compounds. Organic chemistry is the study of hydrocarbons and their derivatives. Because of the unique property of catenation and isomerism, carbon forms а large number of organic compounds. Even towards the end of nineteenth century, the number
Lectures 4. SHOCK. Intensive care of the shock. Extreme conditions. Cardio – pulmonary resuscitation. Circulatory shock, commonly known as just shock, is a serious, life-threatening medical condition where insufficient blood flow reaches the body tissues. As the blood carries oxygen and nutrients around the body, reduced flow hinders the delivery
Methods of sterilization and disinfection. Methods of examination of bacterial antibiotic susceptibility. The main principles of rational antibiotic therapy of diseases [Strict or Obligate] Aerobe: An organism that is capable of using oxygen as a terminal electron acceptor [i.e., aerobic respiration], can tolerate a level of oxygen equivalent to
