Osteoporosis

I decided to do my STEAM project on the cause and affects of Osteoporosis. I created my project to show a normal healthy femur and one that shows the effects of Osteoporosis inside of the bone. Illustrating the damage bone loss can have in severe cases, and what it would …

Antiresorptive Agents for Osteoporosis

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My project is about osteoporosis management through antiresorptive agents, or drugs, that are prescribed to slow osteoclast resorption. I illustrated four stages of osteoporosis, featuring osteoclast and osteoblast involvement. The osteoclast are the large multinuclear cells with the ruffled edges and the osteoclast are the smaller unicellular ones. They are working on trabecular bone. They are such cute little cells, that I had to turn them into a lantern.

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CNS and PNS, “telephone”

I decided to create a drawing, likening the CNS and PNS to an old school telephone operating system. I used the spinal cord as the switchboard of the telephone system. The operator is the brain. Then there are wires, like telephone lines down the street, that are the PNS. They take the message that the CNS specifically meant for the toes down to the toes. Or the message that was meant for the arms, to the arms.

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