Essays Tagged: "Epinephrine"

Treating Anaphylaxis

eded to sustain life.As of today there is one universally accepted treatment for acute anaphylaxis. Epinephrine. Epinephrine is both an alpha and a beta agonist. This makes it the drug optimally suite ... is both an alpha and a beta agonist. This makes it the drug optimally suited to treat anaphylaxis. 'Epinephrine will increase vascular resistance, reduce vascular permeability, produce bronchodilation ...

(3 pages) 62 0 4.8 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Steroid and non-steroid hormones differ in how they affect target cells. Describe the mechanisms involved using specific examples of each. How is it that hormones affect some cells and not others?

rmones include cortisol, estrogen, and testosterone. Non-steroid hormones include choleckystokinin, epinephrine, dopamine, insulin, norepinephrine, serotonin, and vasopressin.Steroid hormones, like es ...

(1 pages) 28451 2 3.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

The Internals of the Subconscious.

of its function. With medical advances, scientists can block dopamine and stop the reuptake of nor-epinephrine, but no single person has made an advance as significant as Freud's in the early 1900s. ...

(2 pages) 35 0 0.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Disease States Involving Disturbances of Haemostasis. (Nursing Project)

sult of 2 separate mechanisms:a) local reflexes of the nervous system.b) biochemical- serotonin and epinephrine are released by aggregated platelets causing vasoconstriction.Histamine is released subs ...

(8 pages) 75 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Stress and health.

down. When people experience stress "their sympathetic nervous system releases the stress hormones epinephrine and nor epinephrine from nerve endings in the inner part of the adrenal glands [and] pit ...

(7 pages) 253 1 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Comparison

(1 pages) 1182 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Comparison

(1 pages) 902 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Definition Paper : Living in Fear

(4 pages) 40 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy