Drug Progect-Minocycline
Minocycline or Minocin is an antibiotic in the group of tetraclcyclines which helps prevent the growth and spread of bacteria. Along with being a tetraclcycline Minocycline is in the class of drugs known as DMARDs (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs). Minocycline can also be refereed to by some of its brand names which are Solodyn, Arestin, Myrac, Ximino, and Dynacin. Minocycline can be used to treat many different bacterial infections; some small infections that Minocycline can control would be urinary tract infections, respiratory infections, skin infections, severe acne, gonorrhea, tick fever, pneumonia, and clamydia. Minocycline also helps decrease the production of substances causing inflammation such as prostaglandins, metallorproteinases, leukortrienes, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Minocyclines main use is to control acne although it can help fight infections in the body and reduce substances causing swelling Minocycline is mainly prescribed to treat acne. Minocycline contains a capsule which holds the active ingredient minocycline hydrochloride. Minocycline starts working when the drug interferes with the ability of bacteria to produce proteins essential to them. When bacteria can’t get the proteins they need they stop growing. When Minocycline attacks it stops the spread of infection throughout the body and the remaining bacteria will be killed by the immune system. The bacterium in which Minocycline is fighting against is a type which feeds on sebum produced by sebaceous glands in skin. This bacterium produces waste products and fatty acids that irritate the sebaceous glands making them become inflamed causing spots. Minocycline controls bacteria numbers which brings inflammation of the sebac...
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Lexapro is obtainable as tablets or an oral solution, the most frequent use is the tablet. The identification of Lexapro tab...
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The molecular formula is C23H27FN4O2, with a molecular weight of 410.49 (Ereshefsky & Mascarena, 2003). Route of administration is oral. Once the drug passes the esophagus and stomach, it makes its way into the small intestines. There are beds of capillaries within the intestine walls.
useful in the relief of mild to moderate pain. It is also used as a cough remedy
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These microglial cells then induced inflammation in the cerebellum, which resulted in the learning and coordination problems (Rettner para.5). Considering it is nearly impossible to test for the drug it poses a control problem.
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In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.
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Microglia is an endogenous immunohomeostatic neuronal support cells in the Central nervous system (CNS) (Kettenmann et al., 2011). Microglial cells are responsible for surveying brain and spinal cord (invertebrates and vertebrates), in protection from pathogens and injury, phagocytosis, and cytotoxicity and immune homeostasis (Garden and Moller, 2006). Microglia’s homeostatic function achieves profound salubrious therapeutic state corollary for prophylaxis of neurological health in the central nervous system (Garden and Moller, 2006). Microglia with astrocyte biochemically maintains endothelial cells that creates blood-brain barrier, through this, pathogenic infection are unable to reach vulnerable nervous tissues (Dissing-Olesen et al., 2007). Furthermore, corollary on specification of homeostasis in immunological functions are based on their site and existing paradigm, and some of Microglial cells immensely depends on the level of plasticity in order to reach the standard of capability of immunity (Gehrmann et al., 1995).
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