Diabetes mellitus

... Other ways of treating hypoglycemia include an injection of glucagon which causes the liver to convert ... with type 1 diabetes mellitus require direct injection of insulin as their bodies cannot produce enough ... form of insulin administration other than injection for patients with type ...

Insulin

... a fourteen year old diabetic was given the first injection of insulin. Unfortunately the extract was so ... mode of administering insulin as many people find injection awkward and painful. One alternative is jet injection (also sometimes used for some vaccinations) which ...

Stem cell

... 3.2.2.1 Embryonic stem cells switched to neurons 3.2.2.2 Stem cell injection restores ability to walk 3.2.3 Muscle damage 3.2.4 Human hearts ... key to the nervous system , develop in the first place. Stem cell injection restores ability to walk A team of Korean researchers reported on ...

Barbiturate

... used for physician-assisted suicide (PAS), and, in combination with a muscle relaxant , for euthanasia and for capital punishment by lethal injection . References Text partially derived from public domain text from U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency . ...

Chromatography

... HPLC or GC, where the compounds are eluted with the eluent, the retention is usually measured as the retention time R t or t R , the time between injection and detection. In interrupted development systems like TLC the retention is measured as the retention factor R f , the run length of the compound ...

Ebola

... soon afterwards (Draper 19). Meanwhile, the nurses at the hospital had an Ebola epidemic on their hands. The needle used for Lokela's quinine injection was inadequately sterilized, so Ebola had spread from patient to patient as the needles were reused. They called Dr. Ngoi Mushola, the area director, ...

Infertility

... sperm in IVF. This happens when a couple's eggs and/or sperm are unusable, or to avoid passing on a genetic disease. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg; the fertilized egg is then placed in the woman's uterus as in IVF. Zygote ...