My STEAM project was focused on lactational mastitis. I made cupcakes to take an artistic fun and less painful view of this disease. These cupcakes represent breasts that have lactational mastitis. The sprinkles represent the redness of the skin and the inflammation. The strawberry is the inflamed areola, as the …
My project will focus on the femur bone, surrounding muscles, and how it can affect posture and localized pain. This is the largest bone in the human body and is located in the upper leg. The femur is such a large and strong bone because it has to support the …
For my project I decided to create an animation to illustrate the vision impairments caused by open-angle glaucoma. If this does not show the animation, I also posted it in media just in case. https://humanap.community.uaf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/848/2021/11/Glaucoma.png
My project is to help in understanding how our largest organ functions, the integumentary system. This organ of the body, so much overlooked does so much for us including thermoregulation, protection, and forming a physical barrier against the environment.
Prosopagnosia, also known as ‘face blindness’ refers to the neurological condition in which those affected suffer a severe deficit in recognising familiar people from their face and rely on voices or distinct features such as hairstyle or clothing to recognise people. Alongside the inability to recognise faces, many people also …
My STEAM project is about the tumor growth from VHL- Von Hippel-Lindau disease. Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an extremely rare disease that causes tumors and cysts to grow all over in your body. They can grow on your brain stem and spinal cord, eyes, kidneys, pancreas, adrenal glands, and reproductive …
My STEAM project will be centered on the effects aging has on the skeletal muscles within the human body and what if anything can reduce the effects aging has on the skeletal muscles. The objective of this STEAM project will connect and expand on Unit five interaction of muscles and …
Attached is a painting I did, demonstrating the overall nervous system in the middle. The nerve cells on the left side of the painting show a healthy string of neurons, with myelin sheaths and oligodendrocytes intact. On the right, depicted is the degenerative effects a disease like Multiple Sclerosis can …
A muscle contraction begins with a signal from a neurotransmitter from the nervous system. The signal innervates individual muscle fibers and sodium ions are released, depolarizing the entire fiber membrane and its tubules. Once the membrane has been depolarized, calcium ions are released from storage in the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The …
