Sex Hormones and Osteoporosis
I’ve never been a good artist but my beautiful delicate art piece is shows how osteoporosis occurs with the osteoclasts destroying the bone while the osteoblasts are held back on rebuilding.
Greenstick Fractures
For my STEAM project I chose to concentrate on greenstick fractures. I covered the objective Classify Fractures and after speaking with Don chose to concentrate on one instead of them all. When creating my project I figured it would be easier to depict the bones instead of the limbs themselves …
Nociceptors and the Actions of Painkillers
I’m sorry about the image quality; the website wouldn’t allow the scan that wasn’t bad. My piece visually depicts the means through which various types of painkillers inhibit or antagonize pain perception. It also means to show in some small detail the specifics of what nociceptors are and how they …
Osteoporosis In Female Athletes
Hello! For my project, I cover how osteoporosis affects athletes, specifically female athletes. The objective I am relating this to an objective in Unit 4: The Skeletal System, that objective being “Explain how bone development is hormonally regulated”, which my project goes in-depth on. The board includes differences in the …
Frostbite And How It Affects The Process Of Necrosis
For my STEAM project, I’ll be addressing two objectives “Comparing and contrasting organelles and their functions” and “Describing the functions of the integumentary system.” Within these objectives, I’ll explain the process of necrosis in eukaryotic cells and its association with severe frostbite. Frostbite is a medical condition that occurs when …
Rheumatoid Arthritis
My project is on Rheumatoid Arthritis, which is also referred to as RA. Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in the joints found in the human body, such as the joints in the hands, knees, and wrist. Due to RA being an autoimmune disease, this means that …
Sleep, Neurons, and Memory Loss
We’re born with the neurons we die with. Unlike other cells in our body, neurons unfortunately cannot multiply. Once a neuron dies off, it’s gone for good. Or, is it? New research over the last decade has shown that although we cannot “regrow” or multiply new neurons, we actually may …
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
My project is on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). The art piece depicts a normal spine, an S-curve, and a C-curve. In my essay, I relate AIS to the following objectives: know the stages of bone development and repair (U4); describe movement of bone using proper terminology (U4); know the parts …