Unsaturated steroid alcohol in our blood cells is called Cholesterol. 70 to 80 percent of cholesterol in the plasma are esterified with long chain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, why 20 to 30 percent exist as free unesterified cholesterol. Function of Cholesterol Metabolic precursor for the biosynthesis of bile acids, and steroids hormones, includes male […]
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Here are some basic ultrasound scan request; 1. Obstetric Scan 2. Biophysical profile 3. Fetal Anomaly Scan 4. Amniotic Fluid Index (AFI) 5. Fetal Doppler Scan 6. Pelvic Scan/Gynaecological Scan 7. Transvaginal Scan 8. Follicle Tracking 9. Sono-HSG 10. Transrectal scan 11. Prostate scan 12. Upper abdomen 13. Abdominopelvic 14. Renal Scan 15. Soft Tissue/small
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Media are nutritional substance use for culture and isolation of micro-organism. Mostly, for isolation of Bacteria, fungi and virus in microbiology laboratory. Media has several classification, Liquid Media or Broth is one of the classification. Liquid Media aides free movement of bacteria. Liquid Media are use basically for Biochemical testing, blood culture, testing for motility
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Aluminum Hydroxide is antacid drugs, it’s used for treating of Peptic and gastritis ulcer. Aluminum Hydroxide is often use to treat Stomach pain causes by gastric and Peptic Ulcer. Presentation You may see Aluminum Hydroxide of 500mg tablets. Also there are different preparations of aluminum and or magnesium hydroxide and in different dosages.
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Below are some of the major disorder of red blood cells: 1. Anaemia 2. Hemoglobinopathies ( Thalassemias and Abnormal hemoglobins). 3. Disorder due to red enzyme defects, e.g. G6PD deficiency 4. Disorder due to red cell membrane defect, e.g hereditary spherocytosis. 5. Polycythemia
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Red Cells called erythrocytes form major cellular component of blood, i.e. Red Cells form about 45 percent of total volume of blood in adults, it give blood it reds colour. Each litre of blood contains about 5 x 10exp12 red Cells, but the exact number different with sex, age, gender and state of health.
Lymphoid stem cells divide to form lymphoid progenitor cells which differentiate into B and T lymphocytes. early Development of B lymphocytes take place in the born marrow and lymphoid tissues and development of T lymphocytes take place in the thymus.
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Bady can’t function without energy. The energy is the blood in our body. Blood in our body is produced by a component of bone called Bone marrow. We have red bone marrow and yellow bone marrow. Red Bone Marrow. Red bone marrow responsible for Red blood cells production. Yellow bone marrow Yellow bone marrow responsible
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Hematology it simple mean study of blood. Medical Laboratory has different types of branch. Hematology is one of the branch specially in the study of blood.
quality control in medical Laboratory come after conclusion of investigation. In order to maintain health standard guidelines, quality assurance must be there to. Quality assurance in the post analytical stage includes: Reporting and verifying Haematological test results. Taking appropriate actions when a result has serious clinical implications. Ensuring test results are interpreted correctly and adequate
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What is Salmonella? Salmonella are groups of gram negative micro-organism bacteria responsibility in causing typhoid disease. In it characteristics, Salmonella are rods, motile and facultative anaerobe bacteria. Salmonella oxidase negative, catalase positive, KCN negative, often citrate positive and H2S positive. Salmonellae attack carbohydrates by fermentation. Salmonellae mostly parasitic to man, animals, such as cows, pigs,
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Phospholipids are biochemical compound or substance made up of combination of lipids and phosphate. The substance are ester of glycerol with two fatty acyl group and phosphotidic acid. Phospholipids has similar chemical structure with triglycerides. Phospholipids main groups in plasma are; Sphingomyelin, Lecithin and Cephalins. Phospholipids are one of the important component of plasma membrane.
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