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Karl Landsteiner was an immunologist and pathologist who received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human ABO blood group system. He laid the foundation for the modern medical practice of blood transfusion.
Who is Landsteiner?
CT scans utilize X-rays to produce images of the inside of the body while MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) uses powerful magnetic fields and radio frequency pulses to produce detailed pictures of organs and other internal body structures. CT scans use radiation (X-rays), and MRIs do not.
What’s the difference between MRI and CAT scans?
He pumped the body with cold oxygenated blood
What technique did Christian Barnard use to keep his donor patient heart viable?
Who was the father of oxygen therapy?
GCPR is a G-protein coupled receptor. They receive signals from the outside of the cell and convey them to the inside, where a proper response to the signal response will be initiated with reactions with other proteins.
What is a GPCR and what does it do?
HGP is a long term research effort to identify the estimated 30,000 genes in human DNA and to figure out the sequences of the chemical bases that make up human DNA. One of the benefits of HGP is that it could help better diagnosis of disease, early detection of certain diseases, and gene therapy and control systems for drugs.
What was the Human Genome Project and a benefit from it?
The period from 1950 to 1960 was truly the golden age of antibiotic discovery, as one-half of the drugs commonly used today were discovered in this period.
What is the golden age of antibiotics?
Squid because their neurons are bigger.
What animal did Hogden and Huxley use for their nerve studies? Why?
Epinephrine Injections
What narrows blood vessels and opens airways in the lungs, while reversing severe low blood pressure, wheezing, severe skin itching, hives, and other symptoms of an allergic reaction?
Kobilka
Who won a Nobel Prize in 2012 for his studies of the G-Protein-coupled-receptors?
A mental illness characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states and is accompanied by memory gaps beyond what would be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. It can be caused by many factors including severe trauma during early childhood, like physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
What is a multiple personality disorder?
Diabetes and Cystic fibrosis
What are two examples of diseases that have to do with the action potential research of Neher and Sakmann?
He had actually obtained the active principle in the form of a crystalline benzoyl derivative.
John Jacob Abel thought he discovered something he called “epinephrine,” but what did he actually discover?
They’re like the plumbing system of the body because they facilitate movement of water across cell membranes and they’re also responsible for the production of all bodily fluids like cerebrospinal fluid, aqueous humor, tears, sweat, saliva, and urine. Aquaporins are also involved in plant biology and infectious diseases.
What are aquaporin water channels?