tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62785175442192050212024-03-05T14:15:04.407-08:00Clinical Chemistry Blog Notes 13BBlog notes from a MT4 student now and a Professional Doctor in the future.Clinical Chemistry Blognotes 13Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122669580445463345noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278517544219205021.post-32287771489130142572010-09-08T04:10:00.000-07:002010-09-08T04:30:40.557-07:00Mercury: a friend or a foe?<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cbnc%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C03%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:1578783595; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:1188199430 1860623478 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; mso-ansi-font-weight:bold;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Xean James, a 7 year old kid, was rushed to the hospital due to heavy metal poisoning. Thanks to the management and the health care team that attended him, his life was saved. Days have passed, the boy fully recovered from the tragic incident. One sunny morning, Leslee, the mother of the child, visited his son and grab the chance to sit back and talk to his naughty son about what just had happened. She told her son that the reason behind his hospitalization was due to exposure to <b style="">mercur</b><span style="font-weight: bold;">y</span>.<b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<br /></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Exposure to <b style=""><i style="">lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, copper</i></b>, and other less common metals can cause serious disease and can be fatal. Scientist has established threshold limits that indicate dangerous exposure, depending on the metal in question, but there is widespread controversy over whatever any degree of exposure can be considered safe and tolerable. In fact, no one knows if even the smallest exposure to any toxic metal is safe, particularly, among people considered sensitive to a particular metal.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
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<br /><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="">HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS</b>. This test offers a cost-effective and painless way of screening for chronic heavy metal accumulation in the body. A small amount of hair is collected from the nape of the neck, where removal is not visible. Hair that has just emerged from the follicle provides a good representation of heavy metal exposure in the recent past. If a hair analysis shows significant abnormalities, additional information can be obtained by performing a urine provocation test fro more exact measurement and confirmation of results.</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="">URINE PROVOCATION TESTS.</b> Typically, the patient is given an oral or intravenous injection of an agent designed to concentrate heavy metals in the urine, which is then collected for the next 6 to 24 hours fro analysis. Based on these results, a course of heavy metal detoxification, typically using oral or injectable chelating agents, can be determined.</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" start="3" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="">BLOOD TESTS.</b> These are less useful fro measuring heavy metal toxins. For toxic metals to show up in blood tests, you need to have significant toxicity or poisoning. Subacute and low grade accumulation are much more common, yet are rarely detected with blood tests, so in most cases we prefer hair or urine screening tests.</li></ol>
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<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="item-title"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="item-title"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/bnc/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/bnc/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-4.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> In this process, we are not primarily after catching the <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">lawbreakers</span> but we are after the <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">PREVENTION</span></span> of further drug abuse amongst youngsters. Especially nowadays wherein, <span style=""> </span>youth are easily influenced by the people around them.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/bnc/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/bnc/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://webpages.shepherd.edu/JRAUCH01/top.htm"><img style="width: 184px; height: 132px;" alt="http://webpages.shepherd.edu/JRAUCH01/peer_pressure.jpg" src="http://webpages.shepherd.edu/JRAUCH01/peer_pressure.jpg" /></a><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cbnc%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C04%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Kristen ITC"; panose-1:3 5 5 2 4 2 2 3 2 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:script; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cbnc%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C09%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Chiller; panose-1:4 2 4 4 3 16 7 2 6 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:decorative; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style=" color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-family:Chiller;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PEER PRESSURE</span></span></b><span style=" color: rgb(153, 204, 0);font-family:Chiller;font-size:35pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> underlies this cause.</p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> But wait, there’s a big BUT, if drug testing will be implemented to all universities, schools and colleges, I strongly suggest that the test should not be administered prior to school opening nor enrollment but rather must be done in unannounced date during the academic year of the said campus.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cbnc%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C06%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Blackadder ITC"; panose-1:4 2 5 5 5 16 7 2 13 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:decorative; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cbnc%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C07%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Blackadder ITC"; panose-1:4 2 5 5 5 16 7 2 13 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:decorative; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:21pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">That’s my point of view with regards to that issue. And I would stand fro it ALL THE WAY, HIGHWAY!</span></span><span style=" Blackadder ITC"; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);font-family:";font-size:21pt;"> </span><span style=" color: rgb(153, 204, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:21pt;">lol:)</span><span style=" Blackadder ITC"; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);font-family:";font-size:21pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:21;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p>
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<br /></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"> 1. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">Smoke Regularly.</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><embed src="http://apps.rockyou.com/rockyou.swf?instanceid=158140396&ver=102906" quality="high" salign="lt" width="324" height="243" wmode="</span"></embed></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /><a style="padding-right:1px;" target="_BLANK" href="http://www.rockyou.com/?type=slideshow&src=emry&refid=158140396"><img style="border:0px;" src="http://apps.rockyou.com/link/logo.gif" /></a><a style="padding-right:1px;" target="_BLANK" href="http://www.rockyou.com/slideshow_create.php?source=cyo&src=emcr&refid=158140396"><img style="border:0px;" src="http://apps.rockyou.com/link/create_own.gif" /></a><a style="padding-right:1px;" target="_BLANK" href="http://www.rockyou.com/show_my_gallery.php?src=emvw&instanceid=158140396"><img style="border:0px;" src="http://apps.rockyou.com/link/view_all.gif" /></a></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 36pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Ingredients of a <i>Cigar stick</i>:</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a.</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">BENZENE<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b.</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">FORMALDEHYDE<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c.</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AMMONIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d.</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">TAR<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e.</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ACETONE</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those are some of the thousands of chemicals that can be found in a single stick of your commercially available cigarette stick. For more info about the chemicals visit this </span></span><a href="http://www.quit-smoking-stop.com/harmful-chemicals-in-cigarettes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">site</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>
<br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Factors to consider why cigarette is one of the most abused substances:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><ol start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5incolor:black;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">First, no one can deny that it is very</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#CC33CC;">CHEAP</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5incolor:black;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">You can buy anywhere and anytime you want. Almost every store here in our place sells cigarette sticks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5incolor:black;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Even there is a law prohibiting people to smoke, the government legalized the tobacco industry. Primarily because the government benefits from the taxes that they added to it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5incolor:black;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Even our</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:red;">PRESIDENT<span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">smokes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5incolor:black;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">There lots of commercials endorsing the habit of smoking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5incolor:black;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">According to the people I talked to,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#33CCFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">smoking relieves stress, makes you feel that you are the so-called “astig” or “siga ng bayan”, promotes bowel movement, and makes you feel light.</span></span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></b></span></span><p></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><p></p> </span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cigarette smoking is said to be addictive because nicotine. Nicotine acts as a stimulant which stimulates the mind and the body. When the tolerance of an individual rose up, then one ends up needing to use larger doses of nicotine to maintain a certain level of the physiological effect. And when the body becomes habituated by the presence of nicotine, the body now requires the use of some chemical to help the body in functioning well and normally. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b><span style=" font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-CAfont-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">2. Drink Always.</span></span></b></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></p><div><embed src="http://apps.rockyou.com/rockyou.swf?instanceid=158140439&ver=102906" quality="high" salign="lt" width="324" height="243" wmode="transparent" name="drinking" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Effect:</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">slows down brain activity</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">affects alertness, judgment, coordination, and reaction time</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">drinking increases the risk of falls and accidents</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Heavy drinking can permanently damages the brain and central nervous system, as well as the liver, heart, kidneys, and stomach</span></span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;">
<br /></span></span></div><div><b>Reasons why people drink: (</b><b><i>according to </i><a href="http://web4health.info/gr/add-alcohol-why.htm"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">web4health.info</span></i></a>)</b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p><b><p style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b></b></span></p><b><p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A lot of research has been done to find and explore the reason why people drink alcohol. From research conducted in the </span><st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Netherlands</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> among 15 to 25 year-olds, the following answers came up:</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">
<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">Sociability (71%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">Like the taste (51%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">Feel at ease (12%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">Get intoxicated (6%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">Get drunk (2%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">Because everybody does it (6%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">To forget problems (0%)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt; margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 2.25in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;">
<br /></span></b></p> <p style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alcohol gets risky when you need more to feel good. If you can't do that anymore on your own, and you use the alcohol for it, at a certain point you run the risk of starting to drink more and more each time to still feel the effects. This can be the beginning of an addiction. If you drink to feel good, you should ask yourself if you can also feel at ease without alcohol.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">
<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; "><b>Factors to consider why alcoholic drinks are one of the most abused substances:</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.25pt"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Like cigars, you can buy it anywhere and anytime (even while doing your weekly grocery, you can locate an isle on the supermarket especially for alcoholic drinks)</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The government also benefits from the taxes added to alcoholic products.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">and it is a great way to<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span>SOCIALIZE.</b></span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></b><p></p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Manifestations of alcohol abuse include:</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></b></span></p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">·</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Failure to fulfill major responsibilities at work, school, or home</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">·</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Drinking in dangerous situations, such as drinking while driving or operating machinery</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">·</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Legal problems related to alcohol, such as being arrested for drinking while driving or for physically hurting someone while drunk.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">·</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Continued drinking despite ongoing relationship problems</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">·</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Long-term alcohol abuse can turn into alcohol dependence</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></span></b><p></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level: 2"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-CAfont-family:";font-size:10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level: 2"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level: 2"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The difference between Alcoholism and Alcohol Addiction</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level: 2"><b><span style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alcoholism</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></span></span><span style=" line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif";font-family:";color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">is the allergy stemming from the body's inability to process alcohol without it triggering the event of desire. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alcoholics</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> unavoidably get drunk, once started drinking.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-outline-level: 2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 55px; ">
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center">“An <b><span style="color:red;">apple</span></b> a day, keeps the doctor away.”</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CCarlo%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:416444580; mso-list-template-ids:1256874482;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> </style></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.textspace.net/blinkie_text/"><img border="0" alt="Blinkie Text Generator at TextSpace.net" src="http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6308/61117475c023b10.gif" /></a></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal">I’ve heard this quotation a lot of time, from different lips in various places. But how "100% panatag ka" that an apple a day really keeps the doctor away?</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal">As I indulge myself to my daily doze of breakfast, I didn’t notice that I was eating my apple up to its middle part where the seeds are located. Out of nowhere, I took a bite of the apple seed, and it tasted awkward, it was like something I couldn’t explain, and there’s no exact word even in the dictionary that can explain the taste I felt.</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal">Without hesitation, I stopped eating my apple and ran hurriedly to my computer and started to do some<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;"></span> research. Due to the curiosity I felt, I found out that <b style="COLOR: rgb(51,255,51)">APPLE SEEDS</b> contain toxic substances. And I’m talking about <b style="COLOR: rgb(51,255,51)">CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDES</b> also known as <b style="COLOR: rgb(51,255,51)">PRUNASIN</b>. This chemical compound is cyanide attached to a sugar. Cyanogenic glycosides are not solely found in apples. It is also found in peaches, apricots, cherries and raspberries (so you better watch what you eat)</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal">When small amounts of prunasin are ingested the following will be manifested by the patient:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p><ul style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">Headache</li><li class="MsoNormal">Dizziness</li><li class="MsoNormal">Confusion</li><li class="MsoNormal">Anxiety</li><li class="MsoNormal">Vomiting</li></ul><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></div><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But when large amounts are ingested the following will occur:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></div><ul style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">Difficulty in breathing</li><li class="MsoNormal">Increased blood pressure</li><li class="MsoNormal">Increase cardiac output</li><li class="MsoNormal">Convulsion</li><li class="MsoNormal">Coma</li><li class="MsoNormal">At worst, even <b>DEATH</b></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal">The good part is, eating <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1 apple</span> (with the seeds) will not kill you. It will take <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">00 grams of prunasin</span> </span>or <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">half a cup of apple seeds to make 150 lbs ill.</span> Therefore, we can still say that “an apple a day, keeps the doctor away.” in spite of the toxic chemical found on the seeds.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>For more additional information about this news, <a style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia; COLOR: rgb(51,153,153); FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://chemistry.about.com/b/2007/09/12/yes-apple-seeds-and-cherry-pits-are-poisonous.htm">click this.</a></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
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<br /></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,255,51)">Moral of the story:</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center">Things consumed in excess are bad. Self control is advised.</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)">references:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc"><li style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /><u1:p>http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp</u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/edible/msg011746212572.html</span></li><li style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)" class="MsoNormal"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CCarlo%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:416444580; mso-list-template-ids:1256874482;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> </style><span style="font-size:85%;">http://chemistry.about.com/b/2007/09/12/yes-apple-seeds-and-cherry-pits-are-poisonous.htm<o:p></o:p> </span></li></ul><br style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">
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Thanks to Socrates, because of his philosophy, I was reminded of our assignment in Clinical Chemistry: to research about the laboratory test regarding catecholamines. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>And as the jeepney ride becomes boring 'cause of the traffic jams, I decided to peak through the windows to gasp some fresh air and be amused on how the construction worker manages the bulldozer as it picks and throws heavy rocks from one place to another. And in a blink of an eye, I was transported to a certain hospital that seemed so familiar to me yet I can’t remember the exact details why this hospital appears to be a part of my life.</span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Still in a state of shock as to what was happening to me, I didn’t notice that a nurse was talking to me in that very instant. She’s like explaining things to me about what I will be going through. She asked me if I </span></span></span><b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">exercised, smoked or in emotional stress</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and I answered no. She smiled and said "Good boy, because if you did one of the things that I have mentioned, results of your test will be inaccurate." Feeling confused and puzzled, I remembered her explaining the test, that what I will be going through is for my own sake. Also, I must</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">remain calm</span></span></span></b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">as I can cause either negative and positive results.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000FF;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>The nurse then instructed me to go to the laboratory downstairs. I didn’t know why I followed her. Going downstairs, I saw a familiar face going the opposite direction. I smiled to him, and he smiled back. I liked to open a conversation with him, but when I looked, back he was gone. I felt goosebumps all over my body.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000FF;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>As I still refresh my mind of the guy, I didn’t notice that “nasa laboratory na pala ako.”, and a Med.Tech warmly welcomed me. I noticed that he was holding a tray of syringes, wet and dry cotton, tourniquet, micropore and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">a</span> </span></span><b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">GREEN VACUTAINER TUBE</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I remembered in our class discussions that a green vacutainer tube contains</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">sodium heparin</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">or</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">lithium heparin</span></span></span></a></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This anticoagulant is said to potentiate the action of </span></span></span><b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">antithrombin III</span></span></span></b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#99cc00;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span></span>After 30 minutes</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the med tech told me to lie in a supine position and inserted the needle right into my vein. When I was about to feel uncomfortable of the situation, I remembered the angelic face of the nurse telling me to be calm as the sea. So I did</span></span></span><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And after the procedure, I was left puzzled (again) as to why I had to wait for 30 mins before starting the procedure. Surprisingly, even before asking him, he answered right back at me. This is assure that I will be as comfortable as I can be, because</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">anxiety </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">or</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> unease</span></span></span></b><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">feeling will</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">increase</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> catecholamine blood level</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000FF;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>Then the medtech asked me to go to the doctor’s main office, and without hesitation I did. It was like I was hypnotized to follow whatever they were telling me. Before I leave the laboratory, a paper flew to me from the pocket of the medtech, and i read whats on it, its about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS of CATECHOLAMINES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">According to what is written on the paper, it says that doing the said method of catecholamine determination follows the following </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">principle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.rmdiagnostics.com/2006110734/Product-Summaries/Catecholamine-Immunoassays.html" title="Principle of the Test"><img src="http://gifup.com/data/gifs/8/9/5/895bb2f9e9.gif" alt="GIF animations generator gifup.com" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.rmdiagnostics.com/2006110734/Product-Summaries/Catecholamine-Immunoassays.html"></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000FF;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>And in a split of a second, I was with the doctor. Amazing! </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He started to open the conversation asking me that if I know the purpose of the test. I answered back no. The doctor explains that the test was to determine whether I have</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Pheochromocytoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">pheochromocytoma</span></span></span></a></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> or </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/neuroblastoma/overview.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">tumors of the nervous system</span></span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">that affects the catecholamine levels that are secreted in my body. This results in constant or intermittently high blood pressure. Incidents of high blood pressure may be escorted by indications such as</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">headache, sweating,</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">palpitations, and</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">anxiety. The test was also to determine if high blood pressure and other symptoms are connected to unseemly hormone secretion and to spot the type of tumor causing elevated catecholamine levels. "And for the normal level of the catecholamines, </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/catecholamines-blood/overview.html#Normal-Values"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33cc00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">read this</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">",</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> said the doctor.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000FF;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span>Before thanking the doctor, I heard people laughing. I felt that someone was shaking me. I didn’t know her but I remembered that this particular old lady was in the same jeep as I am. She’s waking me up because I was drooling. I knew it! I was just sleeping. Everything was a dream. And as I wiped the drool, I was enlightened and happy (though they were still laughing -- "saliva case") because I now know how to present my CC assignment in a different way.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:'times new roman';">for additional income for the brain about <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">RIA test for CATECHOALMINES</span></span></b>...<a href="http://www.alpco.com/pdfs/17/17-BCTHU-R100-RES.pdf"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">click this</span></b></a></span></div></span><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.allblogtools.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img border="0" alt="Blogger Templates" src="http://www.allblogtools.com/MiSc/Signature-Generator/holdz/z4c04edb9e7bed.gif" width="95" height="67" /></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" class="Apple-style-span"><a style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; " href="http://clinchem13b.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">struggling blogger</span></a></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">References:</span></span></span></b></p><ul style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type="disc"><li><b><a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Catecholamines+Tests"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Catecholamines+Tests</span></span></span></a></b></li><li><b><a href="http://www.aruplab.com/guides/ug/tests/0080957.jsp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">http://www.aruplab.com/guides/ug/tests/0080957.jsp</span></span></span></a></b></li><li><b><a href="http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/kb/content/medicaltest/tw12861.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/kb/content/medicaltest/tw12861.</span></span></span></a></b></li><li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests </span></span></span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">by</span></span></span></b></span><span class="addmd"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> </span></span></span></b></span><span class="addmd"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC33CC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Rick Daniels</span></span></span></b></span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><br /><div></div>Clinical Chemistry Blognotes 13Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122669580445463345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278517544219205021.post-89835915222725273452010-05-22T09:09:00.000-07:002010-06-12T08:33:18.820-07:00Adrenal Medulla and the Hormones Secreted<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">It was very late in the evening, and yes! I can’t sleep, even if my body wants to, but my mind doesn’t. And I do know the reason why, I just keep myself unaware of the feeling what I’m going through. The feeling which everyone wishes to feel with somebody and for some people, it’s the feeling that they don’t want to go through anymore. </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><s><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wait! I’m not supposed to discuss this</span></span></span></s></span><span class="apple-style-span"><s><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></span></s></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Back to the real topic which is the “</span>ADRENAL MEDULLA and</span></span><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the Hormones it Secretes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">". </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://clinchem13b.blogspot.com/" title="clinchem13b.blogspot.com/ my source"><img src="http://gifup.com/data/gifs/1/f/e/1fe50aa713.gif" alt="GIF animations generator gifup.com" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://gifup.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a><a href="http://clinchem13b.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">clinchem13b</span></a></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">According to all the books and internet resources I’ve read lately, the adrenal medulla is the interior fraction of the adrenal gland that plays a big job in the </span>SYMPATHETIC-ADRENAL MEDULLARY SYSTEM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 0);font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ADRENAL MEDULLA</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> is totally surrounded by cortical epithelium</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">It is composed chiefly of </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:fuchsia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">chromaffin cells</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; line-height: normal; display: inline ! important;"><span style=";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> Out body's response to the stress (like exercise), the</span> medullary cells releases catecholamines into the blood. 17:3 is the ratio of the epinephrine to norepinephrine when secreted by the medullary cells.</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is also the site of the conversion of TYROSINE (an amino acid) into </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the stress hormone, </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 0);font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EPINEPHRINE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> NOREPINEPHRINE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></p></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; line-height: normal; display: inline ! important;"><span style=";font-family:";"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></p><b><p></p></b><p></p></span></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b></b></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><p></p></b></b></span></span></span></span></b><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b></b></span></span></span></span><p></p></b></span></span></span></span><p></p></b><div style="text-indent: 48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;color:#99CC00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">THE HORMONES AND ITS FUNCTIONS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></u></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></u></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EPINEPHRINE</span></span></span></u></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> a catecholamine which naturally occur in the body. It is synthesized from tyrosine in the adrenal medulla and released along with norepinephrine into the bloodstream. <o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">The following are some of its functions.</span></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 85.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> strengthens the hearts contractility and increases the rate of contraction therefore, cardiac output increases which in return supplies more oxygen to the muscles putting the body in an alert or heightened state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 85.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><object height="405" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/06jbq3bxKE0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/06jbq3bxKE0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="405" width="500"></embed></object></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 85.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jbq3bxKE0&feature=related">video source</a></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 85.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">RESPIRATORY EFFECT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> a powerful bronchodilator. In case of asthma attacks, epinephrine rapidly relieves dyspnea and increases the tidal volume of the lungs.</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 85.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -49.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">HYPERGLYCEMIA EFFECT</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> inhibits insulin-induced glucose uptake in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue leading to a rapid increase in plasma glucose concentration.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -66px;"><u><br /></u></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">NOREPINEPHRINE</span></span></span></u></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">- </span></b></span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">stress hormone which have an effect on the part of the brain where awareness and responding actions are controlled.</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Along with adrenaline or the epinephrine, it also underlies the flight-or-flight response by setting off the release of</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">glucose, and mounting the blood flow to</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">skeletal muscle. The following are some of its functions.</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></b></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 84pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></b></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">VASCULAR EFFECT</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">the noradrenaline hormone dilates the blood vessels during vasoconstriction. When the blood vessels are dilated, there is an increase flow of blood due to the decrease of vascular resistance. In short, it will lead to a decrease ion blood pressure.</span></span></b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 84pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">b.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></b></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">HYPERGLYCEMIA EFFECT</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">norepinephrine increases the production of the glucose (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">not as the same amount with epinephrine, its less than</span>) but increases glucose uptake and its utilization in skeletal muscle and in adipose tissue by the potent beta3 andrenergic receptor that is independent of insulin action. This now explains the principle that lies beneath in the immediate source of energy during stressful situations.</span></span></span></b></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"></span></span></p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;"><b>OTHER EFFECTS:</b><br /></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">dilation of the pupil</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">hair stands on end ("gooseflesh" in humans)</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">clotting time of the blood is reduced;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">increased ACTH secretion from the anterior lobe of the pituitary.</span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">All of these effects prepare the body to take immediate and vigorous action.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Thats all up to now. </span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I hope that this post helped you</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> alot with your concerns. :)</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">p.s.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">with the currently music your listening to right now (the one embedded in my profile) tell me what do you think is the relation of this song to my topic (post it as a comment) and ill be giving <b>free globe load</b> for the first one who will get it correctly/nearest to the answer (for mt4 people only).. :)</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Reference/s:</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></p> <h2 style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Medical physiology: principles for clinical medicine by Rhoades, Rodney<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">·</span></span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://www.ehow.com/facts_5007996_what-functions-norepinephrine.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.ehow.com/facts_5007996_what-functions-norepinephrine.html</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">·</span></span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_medulla"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_medulla</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_medulla"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">·</span></span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://www.ehow.com/about_5380460_epinephrine-vs-norepinephrine.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.ehow.com/about_5380460_epinephrine-vs-norepinephrine.html</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo credits: </b></span></span></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bohone09.wikispaces.com/file/view/A4adregl.jpg/84661429/A4adregl.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>http://bohone09.wikispaces.com/file/view/A4adregl.jpg/84661429/A4adregl.jpg</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/images/look---.gif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/images/look---.gif</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.rch.org.au/publications/cah_book_redo/media/picture03.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>http://www.rch.org.au/publications/cah_book_redo/media/picture03.jpg</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></li> </ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Clinical Chemistry Blognotes 13Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122669580445463345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278517544219205021.post-23812323488693531832010-05-12T04:38:00.000-07:002010-05-12T06:03:45.877-07:00Clinical Chemistry 3 : Endocrinology, Toxicology and Drug Testing<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Basically speaking, </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FF99;">ENDOCRINOLOGY</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> is the study of hormones. Hormones are chemicals produced by a cell and are transported to other cells. The said hormones carry specific messages or signals that would initiate a biological effect on other parts of the body. Hormones are originated in all forms of life with more than one cell, and so they are found in both animals and plants. They control a wide range of physiological activities, such as growth, development, puberty etc. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FF99;">TOXICOLOGY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">is the science of poisons. It is also the study of the active relations of chemicals with living systems.</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> It includes the identification of toxic substances, their properties, as well as their biologic effects and even the treatment of disease conditions that they cause. And when we say toxic substances, these are not solely used for killing, this substances contributes to the health and safety humankind and to the advancement of biological sciences including medicine in many different ways. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FF99;">DRUG TESTING</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">is the scientific examination of a biological sample from the known specimen from the patient to determine the occurrence or absence of the alleged abused drug. One major factor to consider in this process is the approximate period of time to follow before testing the patient’s sample. With technical analysis, any form of drug abuse can be eliminated.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Reference/s:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Toxicology</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Haley, Thomas J.</span></i></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drug Testing: What we all need to know</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ligocki, Kennet B</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Basic and Clinical Endocrinology</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Gardner, David G.</span></i></span></span></li></ul><p></p>Clinical Chemistry Blognotes 13Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122669580445463345noreply@blogger.com4