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Vascular and cellular response: foot soldiers of our first line of defense Any injury to body tissues quickly causes local blood vessels to dilate (vascular response of inflammation). The slower flow brings in the required elements to remove the offending agent and overcome the damage. Key players are pre-existing proteins and white blood cells (cellular…
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With cell adaptation gone astray, it’s time to intervene and pray Sustained insult to adapted cells that coped – with a change of face (metaplasia) or underwent multiplication (hyperplasia) – may result in disordered cell growth controls (dysplasia). Deadly consequences await. These changes in appearance and biological behavior are precancerous: early diagnosis of dysplastic changes…
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Cell Injury To begin at the beginning: long before there is realization of aches and pains, of being unwell, of a change in our bodies, it is the cell which perceives injury and responds to it.
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Welcome to my poetic blog. It celebrates the wonders of the maze of medical knowledge, through rhythm and rhyme. You can read, relish and react to pathological poems that I composed as an adjunct to teaching Pathology in the classroom and remotely over the years. In teaching I have been a learner; in learning through…