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Do you know what neurocysticercosis is?

Neurocysticercosis is the most frequent parasitic disease of the Central Nervous System (CNS); it affects 2 to 4% of the general population in endemic areas. Cysticercosis occurs when man becomes an intermediate host of Taenia solium.

Do you know what dyspepsia is?

Functional gastrointestinal disorders are common chronic disorders that are characterized by the manifestation of symptoms, without evidence of structural, organic or metabolic disease. The Rome consensus subdivided patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders according to symptom patterns and other characteristics. 

The sterilization process

Sterilization is essential in the field of medicine. Sterilization describes the process of ridding objects and materials of living microorganisms. Sterilization is used mostly in doctors’ offices or hospitals, where people with weak immune systems may be exposed to pathogenic germs.

Electrophoretic methods

Electrophoresis is an analytical method in which a controlled electric current is used in order to separate biomolecules according to their size ratio to electric charge, using a gelatinous matrix as the base. When a mixture of ionized and net charge molecules are positioned in an electric field, they experience a force of attraction towards the pole that has opposite charge, allowing the positively charged molecules to pass to the cathode (negative pole) positively charged will move towards the anode (positive pole). 

Cerebral Fluid in Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease, also called senile dementia of Alzheimer’s type or simply Alzheimer’s, is a neurodegenerative disease that manifests as cognitive impairment and behavioral disorders. It is characterized in its typical form by a loss of immediate memory and other mental abilities (such as higher cognitive abilities), as nerve cells (neurons) die and different areas of the brain atrophy.

How do hormones control your life?

Hormones are defined as “chemicals produced by the body that control numerous bodily functions.” In the words of researcher Alexander Gil, of the Dr. Francisco J. Triana Alonso Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED-UC), in Venezuela, they are “chemical substances that, traveling through the blood, communicate to the cells of an organ with the of another, with a specific purpose “.