Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Roughly 190,000 Americans are diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome each year with a mortality rate between 47,500 and 76,000 people per year. ARDS is a very serious medical condition that allows fluids from the blood and interstitial spaces to cross the alveolar membrane as opposed to gas exchange occurring. …

Dendritic cells

When I start learning more about dendritic cells, I couldn’t help but think about them like they are honorable knights that are running around in our body, monitoring the tissues, battling pathogens and heading to the lymph nodes to present potential dangers to the lymph node residents. Their population is …

Parasitic Infections That Affect the Lungs

Malaria Malaria, which is most commonly spread by mosquitoes in underdeveloped countries, can be a fatal parasitic disease. After being bit by a mosquito carrying malaria, the parasites then travel to your liver where they lie dormant. The parasites usually remain dormant for about ten days, but can remain dormant …

The Effects of Alcoholic Gastritis on the stomach mucosa

For my project, I decided to make an infographic on how alcohol can affect the mucosa and damage the stomach lining. I drew and colored the stomach wall layer to show how the stomach wall is protected from stomach acids and show a comparison of how alcohol breaks through 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 …

Alzheimer’s Disease The Degeneration of Neurons and The Brain

Tristan Thompson Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 November 21, 2023 Steam Project The goal of my STEAM project is to identify and describe the four main lobes within the brain and also discuss the effects that Alzheimer’s disease has on degenerating the central nervous system and sections of the brain. …