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Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

The First 24 Hours in Treating the Closed Fracture

is first the formation of hematoma at the injury site: the bleeding into the site allows the appropriate cells to be carried to th...

AIDS Adolescents and Nursing Management

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

Factors of Obesity

In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...

A Creative Essay on How to THrow a Piece of Paper

This 6 page paper is a creative essay explaining in great physiological and anatomical detail the actions taken by a student whose...

500 Yard Swim Physiology

In five pages swimming is discussed in a physiological overview that includes shoulder injury, cardiorespiratory and kinesiologica...

Law Enforcement Officials and Stress

The outcome of that stress can be phenomenal in terms of its impact on the officer and on the performance of their job. Those...

Cardiac Patients and Propranolol Use

produce rennin. Renin is a protease that is released by the kidneys and have the effect of cleaving angiotensin I to angiotensin, ...

Human Body and the Impact of Stress

shown to disrupt the metabolism, either speeding it up or slowing it down. There has been recognition of the speeding up of the me...

Critique of Article on Bathing Premature InfantsCRITIQUE: “BATHING PREMATURE INFANTS: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES”

Peters is concerned about, but rather, the fact that there has been little evidence that such bathing is beneficial; that the proc...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Does PMS Actually Exist?

and those that are will suffer in varying degrees (What is Premenstrual Syndrome? 2003). Among the many typical symptoms...

Normal Sleep Pattern Cycles and Physiology

- also exist simultaneously. Of the three components, age is said to be "probably the single most crucial factor (apart from the ...

Stress and Its Effects

In seven pages this literature review incorporates the hierarchy of needs theory of Abraham Maslow in an examination of stress and...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Children and Causes of ADHD

a correlation of Attention Deficit Disorder with differences in thyroid hormone receptors. Researchers have found "a small subset...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

Sherpa People and High Altitude Cultures and Physiological Responses

Acute mountain sickness (AMS)is one of the more common illnesses that inflict travelers to high altitudes (Jansen, Krins, and Basn...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Animals Retaining Water and Antidiuretic Hormones

In seven pages the antidiuretic hormone's physiological role in the retention of water in animal kidneys is examined. Ten sources...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

The Physiological, Psychological, and Social Impacts of Methamphetamine

demand because it is cheap and easily available. It is cheap and easily available because it is so easy to manufacture. Methamph...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

About Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinsons Disease?"). Researchers now think that PD may result from "a combination of genetic susceptibility and exposure to one ...

Psychological and Physiological Risk Factors of Teen Pregnancy

In six pages this paper discusses teen pregnancies n terms of the impact of psychological and physiological risk factors along wit...