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Insulin Gene

The insulin gene produces the polypeptide hormone insulin, which is required for normal glucose homeostasis and regulation of blood sugar levels. The lack of insulin or insulin insufficiency can lead to diabetes mellitus, which affects up to 5% of the human population.

18 Feb 2010

Evolutionary Immunology

Evolutionary immunology studies the evolution of immunity and the immune system over ages among animals and plants.

18 Feb 2010

Clinical Immunology

Immunology finds a wide variety of uses in understanding, diagnosis and treatment of diseases in medicine today.

18 Feb 2010

Developmental Immunology

Immunity and the immune system starts its development much before birth in the fetus and this development continues even after reaching adulthood.

18 Feb 2010

Classical Immunology

Classical immunology deals with the fields of epidemiology and medicine. Immunology alone is the study of response of an organism to antigenic challenge and its recognition of what is self and what is not.

18 Feb 2010

What is Immunology?

Immunology is the branch of biomedical science that deals with the response of an organism to antigenic challenge and its recognition of what is self and what is not. It deals with the defence mechanisms including all physical, chemical and biological properties of the organism that help it to combat its susceptibility to foreign organisms, material, etc.

18 Feb 2010

Immunotherapy and Helminthic Therapy

One experimental form of immunotherapy is the treatment of autoimmune diseases using helminths, which are parasitic worms.

18 Feb 2010

Suppression Immunotherapies

Immunotherapy is a treatment that functions by triggering, improving, or suppressing the body’s immune response.

18 Feb 2010

Activation Immunotherapies

Immunotherapy is a disease treatment that works by initiating, improving, or suppressing the body’s immune response.

18 Feb 2010

What is Immunotherapy?

Immunotherapy is a treatment that is designed to harness the ability of the body’s immune system to combat infection or disease.

18 Feb 2010

Heparin Controversies

Heparin is a naturally occurring anticoagulant that prevents blood clots from forming.

18 Feb 2010

Heparin Sources

Pharmaceutical-grade heparin is derived from the mucosal tissue of animals that have been slaughtered for meat such as pigs and cattle. Research conducted between 2003 and 2008 eventually led to the synthetic development of low molecular weight heparins in 2011.

18 Feb 2010

Heparin Drug Development

Heparin is a naturally occurring anticoagulant. Heparin is contained in mast cells and is released into blood vessels at sites of tissue injury to prevent blood clots forming.

18 Feb 2010

Heparin History

Heparin is a naturally occurring anticoagulant that prevents the formation of blood clots. Heparin does not itself break down existing clots, but enhances the body’s natural mechanisms involved in dissolving clots.

18 Feb 2010

Heparin in Medicine

Heparin is an anticoagulant drug that prevents the formation of new clots as well as the expansion of clots that already exist.

18 Feb 2010

What is Heparin?

Heparin is an injectable anticoagulant that is used to prevent the formation of blood clots in the vessels. It is a highly-sulfated glycosaminoglycan and the most highly negatively charged biological molecule known to mankind. It is also used to create an anti-clotting surface inside various medical devices such as renal dialysis machines and test tubes.

18 Feb 2010