Vitamin E
Vitamin E is a anti-carcinogen. We put here some details on this fabulous natural product.
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Vitamin D
Vitamin D (or calciferol) is a vitamin which promotes calcium absorption (after exposure to sunlight), essential for normal development of bones and teeth, it also acts as newly discovered immune system, heart, brain and the secretion of insulin from the pancreas. It is a fat-soluble vitamin obtained from cholesterol by as metabolic precursor of sunlight and dietary sources. Functionally, vitamin D acts as a hormone that maintains the calcium and phosphorus in the blood by increasing or decreasing the absorption of these minerals in the small intestine.Vitamin D also regulates bone metabolism and calcium deposition in bones. The name of the vitamin was created by the Polish biochemist Casimir Funk in 1912, based on the Latin word vita (life) and the suffix-amine. It was initially used to describe these substances from the amine functional group, since that time it was thought that all vitamins were amines.Despite the error, the name remained. Vitamin D is also very important for children, pregnant and lactating mothers, by increasing growth and allow the determination of calcium in bone and tooth. Besides the importance in maintaining calcium levels in blood and bone health, vitamin D has an important role in most metabolic functions and also in muscle function, cardiac and neurological disorders. The vitamin D deficiency can precipitate and exacerbate osteoporosis in adults and cause rickets, a avitaminosis in children.
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Vitamin C
Vitamin C is a nice source of health. We provide here some additional informations in such a nice natural product. Read the rest of this entry »
Heart Attack, Causes and Symptoms
It occurs when blood vessels provisioning the heart are blocked, preventing appropriate oxygen to this organ. The heart muscle dies or is permanently injured. Doctors call this a myocardial infarction. Read the rest of this entry »
Everything you need to know about Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is a method capable of destroying tumor cells, using beam of ionizing radiation.
A pre-calculated dose of radiation is applied at a given time, a volume of tissue encompassing the tumor, seeking to eradicate all tumor cells, with the least possible damage to surrounding normal cells at the expense of which will make the regeneration the irradiated area.
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Main drugs used in cancer treatment
The most widely used anticancer agents in cancer treatment include polyfunctional alkylating, antimetabolites, antitumor antibiotics, mitotic inhibitors and others.
New drugs are continuously being isolated and applied experimentally in animal models before use in humans. Read the rest of this entry »
Resistance to chemotherapeutic
The biggest failure of anticancer chemotherapy is due to drug resistance. This resistance occurs because the cell populations or develop new encoding gene (mutation) or because they are encouraged to develop cell types resistant to being exposed to drugs, allowing them to engage in alternative pathways through the synthesis of new enzymes.
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Criteria for application of chemotherapy
To avoid the toxic effects of chemotherapy and intolerable that they endanger the lives of patients, are obeyed criteria for the indication of chemotherapy. These criteria are varied and depend on the patient’s clinical conditions and drugs selected for treatment. Below are listed some requirements ideal for the application of chemotherapy:
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Toxicity of chemotherapeutic
Chemotherapeutic agents do not act exclusively on tumor cells. The normal structures that renew themselves constantly, as bone marrow, hair and mucosa of the gut are also affected by the action of chemotherapy.
However, because normal cells have an expected recovery time, unlike the anaplastic cells, it is possible that chemotherapy is applied repeatedly, since the observed time interval required for the recovery of bone marrow and the lining of the gut. For this reason, chemotherapy is applied in periodic cycles.
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My Husband Takes the Blue Pills
All of a sudden your old husband, that used to be tired, dispirited, with low morale definitely begins to show an anomalous excitement. Read the rest of this entry »