Knowing the symptoms of thyroid disease is one of the best ways to help avoid acute hypothyroidism. As more and more women suffer from this dreaded disease, a lot of doctors try their best to warn individuals of the things that may refer to having thyroid disease. Hypothyroidism is currently the most common type of disorder related to the thyroid gland. When the infection goes into a much severer stage, this then becomes myxedema. The thyroid gland fails in the production of thyroxin, which is needed by the body to functionalize major internal activities. This will eventually lead to gradual metabolism, making it difficult for the female to menstruate in regular time frame or to lose weight.
One of the most common symptoms of hypothyroidism is fatigue, brought about by muscle tension or pain in the legs and the arms. This may be felt through constant muscle pains or throbbing of the muscular areas of the body. The body will also resist cold temperature and may not be able to function well when inside a room below the surrounding’s average temperature. Weight gain will also be evident on the part of the female or the one who is infected with the thyroid disease. This is caused by the body’s slow metabolism process.
Should the body gain too much weight, this may also cause another symptom of thyroid disease, which is having high blood pressure. The gradual metabolism of the body will also result to reduction of sweating that may cause brittle nails or dry skin. Since women have longer hair than men, symptoms may also be noticeable for those who are experiencing hair loss and having coarse hair. With the body not being able to function at its best, this will also result to difficulty in concentration or slower speech and movement. Others may even go as far as experiencing depression due to the effects of the disease towards the human brain and the functions of the body’s nerve cells.
In order to prevent these types of symptoms, a person can immediately seek the advice of a reliable physician for a physical examination. Doctors will be able to determine if the body is indeed infected with hypothyroidism. You can also look to get the right supplements to aid your body with iodine to help fight the symptoms of thyroid disease. Being fully aware of the changes and reactions of your body will help battle hypothyroidism while you still can.
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Cryogenic storage of your new born’s umbilical cord blood acts as insurance for your child as stem cells of cord blood can be life saving in case your child develops certain serious illnesses. Many medical researches have found that the residual umbilical cord blood incorporates the stem cells that are same like those stem cells, which are found in human bone marrow.
Significance of the stem cellsThe significance of the stem cells storage from the umbilical cord blood is that they act as the building blocks, which the body uses to make essential components in the immune system and the human blood.
The stem cells include:
•Red blood cells to carry oxygen •White blood cells to fight infection •Platelets for the clotting blood Stem cell storageare of utmost importance for life, thus, if any damage takes place to the stem cells at any point of time in life, either from a nonmalignant, malignant or from genetic disease, the stem cell transplant might be needed for the medical treatment.
The nonmalignant and malignant diseases during which stem cell transplant might be needed include:
Malignant diseases
•Severe lymphocytes leukemia
•Adult unending myelogenous leukemia
Severe myelogenous leukemia
•uvenile unremitting myelogenous leukemia
•Multiple myeloma
•Hodgkin’s disease
•Neuroblastoma
•myelodysplastic syndrome
•Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Nonmalignant diseases
•AMT- Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
•Congenital cytopenia
•Aplastic anemia
•Gaucher disease
•Fanconi’s anemia
•Gunther disease
•Hurler syndrome
•Hunter syndrome
•Kostmann syndrome
•Osteoporosis
•Lesch-Nyhan disease
•SCID- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
•Thalassemia •Sickle cell anemia
Stem cells taken from the residual of the umbilical cord blood and the placenta have various advantages:
Compilation of the stem cells includes a very simple procedure without giving any risk to child or the mother.
Once the stem cells are stored, they are easily and quickly available when needed for the treatment, without following any procedure such as surgery to acquire the stem cells of the bone marrow or inducement along medications in order to obtain the stem cells from the peripheral blood.
Stem cells from the umbilical cord blood are superior at tolerating the differences between the donor and the recipient, with least graft-versus-host disease, an obstacle in some transplants wherein the grafted cells hit & There is low possibility of transmitting the infectious disease with the umbilical cord blood stem cells then with the transplantation of the stem cells of the bone marrow.
With the introduction of new techniques and methods for using the stem cells and the suitable nature of the stem cells of the umbilical cord blood for using in the gene therapy, the umbilical cord blood might become the most precious source of the stem cells. The umbilical cord blood might be just what the individual needs in order to fight from a severe disease. It is anticipated that the stem cells from the umbilical blood cells are seven to eight times stronger in producing novel blood cells then the stem cells from an adult’s bone marrow.
About the Author
The author Is with Insception a stem cell banking Company actively involved into research regarding umbilical cord blood and stem cell storage System
Key To Human Heart Disease Could Lie With Hibernating Grizzly Bears
The documentation of ancient plums growing in antiquity is sparse. The best evidence of that oldest existence is best documented through America’s most famous pomologist, Luther Burbank, who reported in his twelve volume botanical literary classic, Small Fruits, Volume IV page 136, that the European plum, Prunus domestica, and its ancestor fruit originated in the Caucasus Mountains near the Caspian Sea. Burbank detailed evidence that the prune (dried plum) was a staple food of the Tartars, Mongols, Turks, and Huns “who maintained a crude horticulture from a very early period.” Several websites have put forth the absurd idea that, because the European plum, Prunus domestica, seeds were not found in the ruins of Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, “whereas, most other old world fruits were,” that this plum could be concluded to be a recent hybrid of “spontaneous chromosome” doubling to produce a hexaploid offspring.
The earliest reference to plum history in the American colonies came from Prince Nursery of Flushing, New York, that was established in 1737 and reported in 1771 in an advertisement “33 kinds of plums” for sale. These plum trees were no doubt European plums, Prunus domestica.
After the year 1755, Henry Laurens, who was a guest and friend of Wililam Bartram, introduced olives, limes, ginger, everbearing strawberry, red raspberry, and blue grapes into the United States. From the south of France he introduced apples, pears, plums, and the white Chasselas grape which bore abundantly. Henry Laurens lived in Charleston, South Carolina and served as a President of the Continental Congress.
William Bartram described two species of American plums in his famous book, Travels, in his 1792 trip to Georgia, where he identified the Chicasaw plum, Prunus chicasaw, and in Alabama, he found a wild plum, Prunus indica.
Luther Burbank contributed more toward improving and hybridizing plum trees of different species than any other person in history. His work on the plum group of stone fruits stands apart from any other person for his unequaled contribution to improving various fruits that are grown and enjoyed today.
Burbank states that his importation of twelve plum seedlings in the year 1885 was the “most important importation of fruit bearers ever made at a single time into America.”
Burbank brought plums from all over the world and intercrossed them in a giant “melting pot” to produce the best characteristics and to reject the wrong ones. These genetic plum mixtures were recombined for many generations and resulted in plum hybrids today that are so different from the original species as to appear to be new species.
Burbank stated that he spent more time hybridizing plums than with any other plant breeding program, and he reported that he screened 7.5 million plum hybrid seedling crosses before releasing outstanding cultivars for sale. His famous line of plum trees that were popular in the late 1890′s are still admired and grown commercially for sale and in backyard gardens today, such as Burbank, Santa Rosa, Wickson, Golden, Satsuma, Shiro, and Ozark Premier. His first huge success was applauded by USDA Professor, H.E. Van Deman, who suggested that the pick-of-the-lot creation of Luther Burbank be named after its creator, thus, the “Burbank Plum.”
Most of Burbank’s plum tree successes come from his combining the genetic materials of 4 major types of plums whose ancestry came from Japan, Europe, America, and China.
The most successful crosses between plums come from the Japanese plum, the most exotic, ‘Satsuma,’ the name suggested by Professor H.E. Van Deman of the USDA, who identified it as being imported from the Satsuma province in Japan. This unique plum grew a red skin with a pale-blue netting bloom overlay. The pulp was dark purplish-red, firm, tasty with an excellent quality to be preferred for home use.
Burbank’s experimental species were Japanese plums, Prunus triflora, that grew wild in Japan and were pickled by the natives. The Japanese plums grew in many colors in skin from white to purple, were large and rather tasteless, but the Japanese natives ate them while green and hard. The Japanese plum genes appear to dominate most hybrid plum offspring. Chinese plums, Prunus simonii, were aromatic, with rich colored skins, a small pit, but the skin cracks and the fruit tastes bitter.
European plums, Prunus domestica, are varied in sizes, largest to small, sweet or sour, complex genes, many colored skins, very widely adaptable, good for fresh eating, drying, or canning. The disadvantage: they are too juicy or watery. “Green Gage” is a well known standard European cultivar. Prunes are very high in sugar content.
Several species of America plums are very hardy and productive to the extent of covering the ground in spring with several layers of fruit. These plums can be tasty but have poor shipping quality. Burbank released an excellent hybrid strain of this cross called “Robinson plum.”
Several American native plum species have been used in hybridization experiments by Luther Burbank. American plums, Prunus Americana, wild goose plums, Prunus hortulans, the chicasaw plum, Prunus augustifolia, Western sand plum, Prunus besseyi, the beach plum, Prunus maritima, and the California wild plum, Prunus subcordata. These native plum trees are unusually cold hardy and frigid temperatures do no harm to them, even in the northernmost part of the central United States.
The “Myrobalan” plum originated as a French species, Prunus cerasifera is used extensively as a peach tree and plum tree rootstock that tends to be compatible with the resulting fruit tree union and appears to be highly resistant to nematodes and root diseases.
Burbank’s goal in hybridizing plums was to produce a tree that had “stability, novelty, variety, hardiness, beauty, shipping quality and adaptability.”
The plum leaves and twigs exhibit many subtle characteristics that can be experienced by the plant hybridizer to predict the future characteristics of fruit that will be grown from small seedling crosses. Most hybridizers known from experience a predictable outcome, even though these plant qualities are too intangible to explain to an audience, like changing facial expressions or minute variations of color changes. If the leaves of a plant are dark red, the fruit will be red. This same phenomenon is applicable to flowers such as the canna lily leaf color, and the red rhizome color; or in the crinum lily cultivars, a red bulb means a red flower; a light green bulb means a white flower.
Luther Burbank developed a seedless plum by hybridizing a French plum cultivar, “Sans noyaii.” These plums develop into various skin colors ranging from white to yellow, orange scarlet, crimson, violet, deep blue, almost black, striped, spotted, and mottled. These seedless plums were delicious and unique, but were never commercially successful with growers or with public demand.
Burbank crossed many plums that had a tendency to produce fruit with a high sugar content, like the sweetness of figs, pineapple and oranges. This high sugar content makes it possible for the plum (prune) to insure long term preservation, when it is dried. The prune contains a thick and tough skin of such texture that is required to not crack when the commercial drying process begins and proceeds to deliver a tasty, honey-sweet fruit that lasts well.
A prune will not dry properly into a marketable fruit, unless the plum contains a sugar concentration of at least 15%. Before drying, the prune is submerged briefly into an alkali solution that prevents future fermentation by preventing microbes from growing on the surface of the skin. For satisfactory prune production commercially, a prune tree must be a reliable grower with an annual substantial crop of fruit. The prune must ripen early, when the days are long and warm and must drop from the tree to avoid expensive picking costs at the proper ripening time. The prune fruit must cure and dry to a black color and grow a small pit. Most prune hybrids have been hybridized from the European plum, Prunus domestica.
Many cultivars of Plums are recommended for planting: Blue Damson, Chicasaw, Elephant Heart, Green Egg, Methley, Morris, Stanley, Au Amber, Au Homeside, Au Rubrum, Black Ruby, Byrongold, Ruby Sweet, Six Weeks, and Plumcot are just among the few varieties of trees offered in the market today.
There are also three ornamental varieties of flowering plum trees recommend for planting: Newport, Prunus cerasifera ‘Newport’, Purple Pony Prunus cerasifera ‘Purple Pony’, and Red Leaf Plum Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’, flowering plum trees.
Burbank developed purple leaved plum trees from a French plum ancestor with purple leaves, Prunus pissardi, that commercially are sold as ‘Thundercloud’ flowering plum, Vesuvius, and Othello. Some of these red leaf flowering plums developed by Burbank grew delicious red fruit in addition to the beautiful red ornamental leaves.
Plum fruit is rated high in antioxidant content that offers many health benefits like Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin C, Niacin, and the minerals; Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, and Iron.
Burbank sifted out the complexities of plum hybridization and even crossed the plum with the almond, Prunus dulcis, hoping to create a tasty almond kernel and a tasty pulp. He created many crosses with the Apricot, Prunus armeniaca L., and created plumcot trees, a 50/50 blend of plum trees and apricot trees; Pluot trees demonstrate a 75/25 blend of plum trees and apricot trees; and Aprium trees a 75/25 blend of apricot trees and plum trees.
About the Author
Patrick A. Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nursery, has an M.S. degree in Biochemistry and has cultivated fruit trees for over three decades.
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Keeping your Houston trees pruned is one of the most effective ways to prevent property damage from hurricanes and strong winds. The hurricane season officially lasts from June 1 to November 30.
In 2008, Hurricane Ike ripped through the Texas Gulf Coast and the Houston area with winds as high as 145 miles per hour. Within Houston high winds caused trees to fall over without any concern for where they landed. Cars, power lines, and homes were destroyed in the face of thousands of pounds of tree weight forced onto them.
Tree pruning is a smart way to prevent Hurricane tree falls. That’s because an overgrown, unpruned tree may be thick with dead, snarly limbs that resist the flow of wind and act like a kite against which the wind can exert tremendous pressure. Coupled with the reality that some trees, such as oaks, have shallow root structures, wind pressure sometimes forces trees to uproot and fall over.
By contrast, a tree that has been pruned will enable wind to pass through it, preventing falls. Pruning is the selective removal of branches, often with a focus on interior growth, broken branches, and dead wood.
Houston arborist Louis Flory of Abiliy Tree Experts recommends that individuals seek a professional tree company to perform this work. A reputable company will understand how to efficiently and safely climb trees and remove heavy limbs. Amateurs may mistakenly remove a limb on which they depend for balance, said Flory.
Furthermore, tree professionals will se their expertise to improve the appearance of the tree and to prevent it from weighing too much on one side. And tree care experts know how to cut into trees without causing damage that leaves trees susceptible to pests and diseases.
“Pruning not only manicures the tree, it enhances the beauty of the tree and of your property. On top of all that, it makes your tree more storm resistant,” said Flory.
Other tips for preventing tree damage in a storm include removing dead trees, and applying regular tree care to keep them healthy. Many tree service companies offer free estimates and inspections, letting homeowners understand any work that may be appropriate for staying safe and enjoying a more healthy yard.
About the Author
Ability Tree Experts is one of the top providers of tree services in Houston, including tree pruning. Please visit them online at http://www.abilitytrees.com/ to learn more about the company.
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which disease is primarily spread through direct contact: A.cholera
B.Giardia
C.Rabies
D. diabetes
a contributing factor to the emerging disease Legionnaires was:
A. ecological changes
B.insecticide resistance
C.cooling and plumbing systems
d. mass food production systems.
fatal cases of trichinella spiralis may occur as a result of:
A.respiratory patalysis
B.myocardial infarction
C.spleen and liver failure
D. increases blood pressure
which organism would MOST LIKELY cause an opportunistic infection
A.staphylococcus
B.candida
C.yersinia
D. salmonella
1. C. RABIES
2. C. COOLING & PLUMBING SYSTEMS
3. A. RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS
4. B. CANDIDA
ICON: ORIGINAL SHOOT with mixed-media artist Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell
