I'm already done reading some of my books and surfing the net for my assignment in Clinical Chemistry 3 which includes Endocrinology, Toxicology and Drug testing. At first I made, a rough draft at Ms-Word to summarize all the things that I've read, I took a rest for a minute but after that I found myself sleeping in the front of my desktop computer and it’s already 3 a.m in the morning. So here we go!
I. Endocrinology
It’s already 3 a.m and still I am figuring how to start a good introduction here at my blog. So basically, I just told you guys that I got totally messed up because I found myself sleeping in the front of the computer. Now that I mentioned SLEEPING (sorry for the all caps, basically I hate this when this is happening to me), do you know that the hormone melatonin is the one responsible that help us to regulate our sleeping patterns. So as all we know melatonin is a hormone wherein it has something to do with the term Endocrinology. Let's start talking about Endocrinology!
Endocrinology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorder of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones. Endocrine system is an efficient means of controlling by the use of hormones, it is the most important factor in the control of the basic processes of the individual, such as metabolism, growth and reproduction.
Human Endocrinology is easily understood on how hormones are being secreted by different glands into the blood and dispersed to cells within the body. Each of the hormone group is described in a separate chapter, dealing with the factors affecting the hormones secretion.
Hormones are molecules that act as signals from one type of cells to another. Those secreted by the endocrine glands travel primarily through the blood. The major endocrine glands are the thyroid, the two adrenals, the four parathyroids, the pituitary, the pancreas, and the paired testes or ovaries. Hormones are also produced by tissues or organs whose function is not primarily an endocrine one.
Source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3285182
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrinology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=endocrin
Lecture Notes: Endocrinology and Diabetes,Sam A,. Meeran K,. 2009
II. Toxicology
I went to the kitchen to find some foods at the refrigerator but suddenly I noticed there were ants at the dishes left at the sink that attracts them (maybe my brother was the one responsible for this mess). After noticing that incident, something came up on my mind. I remember the story that one of my friends told me, it’s about that a woman who was very upset because her little girl caught eating Fire ants / Red ants called him via phone. My friend quickly reassured her that ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
So, upon hearing his story I quickly get my laptop and start surfing the net if there are really poisonous ants. Some tells that ”Yes!” they are really poisonous ants, because they do have venom. That will cause you to itch. If bitten several times by numerous ants, this will cause any type of severe allergic reaction. Some said “No!”, they are not poisonous unless you eat them in cupfuls you should be fine unless. Enough of this Ant’s thing and let’s just move on to the next topic. The reason I wrote it is because they have something to do with toxicology, their venom.
According to Concise Pocket Medical Dictionary 2nd edition, 2009, U.N Panda. Toxicology, is a branch of science dealing with toxic substances, their detection, pharmacological action, selection of suitable antidotes, treatment and prevention of their symptoms.
Toxicology is typically divided between mechanistic studies, which understand and explain the basis for such effects and the second is observational studies, looking at what effects result from exposure to a particular substance. Clinical toxicology involves the application of toxicological principles within a diagnostic setting.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicology
www.chemlin.net/chemistry/toxicology.htm
Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons (Casarett & Doull Toxicology), 2001
III. Drug Testing
After returning from the kitchen, I noticed my driver's license. My license has about to expire this year. So basically, I will need to renew it before it's expiration date and the bad thing is it is too expensive because you will need to pay for the medical examination which includes the drug testing and I need to get a medical certificate. Basically, the drug testing for me is just a quite weird for me. Because what is basically their point? An addicted to a certain illegal drugs like shabu, marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy can stop for a while taking drugs to renew his/her license. Weird! Anyways let's move to our next topic Drug testing.
According to our friendly neighborhood Wikipedia, Drug testing is a technical analysis of a biological specimen - for example urine, hair, blood, sweat, or oral fluid / saliva - to determine the presence or absence of specified parent drugs or their metabolites. I know before reading this, you guys exactly know what is drug testing all about.
As mentioned above there are different types on how to conduct a drug testing. As a future medical laboratory scientist, Urine drug testing is the most common test we do and not only by us, but also other federally mandated drug testing programs. Oral drug testing or the saliva testing is non-invasive and easy to collect specimen while sweat drug testing is very easy to collect the specimen and no comfort room needed to collect the specimen, these drug tests are relatively tamper proof since they are hard to manipulate. A laboratory is not required for analysis.
Source:
http://www.drugtest.org/
http://aboutdrugtesting.org/drug_test.htm
Biopharmaceutics and Drug Hypersensitivity (Pharmacology - Research, Safety Testing and Regulation) by Paul Mossillo and John Pinzini
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