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Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 1949 im Fachbereich Medizin - Neurologie, Psychiatrie, Suchte, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen (H.-N.-O.-Klinik), Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Dies ist die Geschichte eines Wunders. Durch Sulfonamide und Penicillin wurde erstmals in der Geschichte der Menschheit eine vorher fast immer todliche Krankheit, die Meningitis, behandelbar. Dies ist die bisher nicht publizierte Dissertation meines Vaters Heinrich Flachsbart. Die Arbeit wurde 1949 in der Gottinger Universitat nicht angenommen: Weil nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf. Wie konnte etwas Pulver (Sulfonamid, Penicillin) soviel mehr bewirken, als alle medizinische Kunst zuvor. Vielleicht kann man auch viel uber uns und unsere Zeit lernen. Penicillin hat die Welt verandert., Abstract: Die Therapie mit Penicillin hat 1947 eine Heilung von schweren Infektionen moglich gemacht. Dies ist die Dissertation meines Vaters Heinrich Flachsbart. Sie wurde 1949 abgelehnt. Die Beobachtungen der Heilerfolge schienen unglaublich und undenkbar. Die gesamte chirurgische Kunst wurde plotzlich unnotig. Das konnte nicht sein. Mein Vater hat dann Gottingen verlassen und ist Chirurg und Urologe geworden. Aber die hohe Kunst der Antibiotika-Therapie hat er mir ubermittelt. Suche einen moglichen Infekt. Versuche den moglichen Erreger zu ermitteln. Therapiere moglichst genau, spezifisch, mit engem Wirkspektrum. Die Antibiotika-Therapie sollte wie ein chirurgischer Eingriff erfolgen: Genau geplant, mit optimalem Werkzeug, nur dann, wenn unbedingt notwendig. All diese Forderungen werden am besten vom Penicillin erfullt.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Medicine - Other, grade: -, Reitoria da Universidade de Cabo Verde, course: Bacharelato Biologia Marinha e Pescas, language: Portugues, abstract: Anaemia is defined as a patologic process in which the hemoglobin concentration, present on the red blood cells is normally low, concerning the variations according to age, sex and altitude in relation to the sea level, in consequence of many situations as chronic infections, hereditary blood problems, lack of one of the essential nutrients, necessary in the formation of the hemoglobin, as folic acid, vitamin B12, B6 e C and proteins. According to the OMS estimation, on the developing countries the iron deficiency anaemia affects close to 36% of the population, as long as on the developed countries its occurrence remains round 8%. Amongst the nutritional anaemias, iron deficiency anaemia is the most common, followed by megaloblastica anaemia, caused by, vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency, that are essential for erythropoiesis. The present work had as the prime objective, analyse the prevalence of anaemia in Porto Novo, Santo Antao Island, besides describe the prevalence of anaemia according to sex, age and red blood cell morphology.In this study, a total of 473 blood samples collected in EDTA, routine anticoaguta were analysed, using the haematologic automatic counter SYSMEX KX-21N, between May and July 2010. The classification of anaemias was realized, according to the reference values determined by OMS to hemoglobin counting, so also the values of reference to MCV was established with support on researched bibliography and that of local reference values.The results indicated that, in the whole samples, 159 was male and 321 was female, in what, 41,01% (n=194) has presented anaemia, as long as 58,99 %(n=279) has presented normality. This was more prevalente on female, where we observed that 27,48% of women where anaemic. In pregnant the prevalence was 8,88%. The normo

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medizin - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universitat Osnabruck, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anti-Aging," ein Modebegriff, der die ewige Jugend verspricht und dank der immer machtiger werdenden Anti-Aging-Industrie in aller Munde ist. In den Industrienationen nimmt der Anteil alterer Menschen und deren individuelle Lebenserwartung kontinuierlich zu. Leider verstarkt sich gleichzeitig die negative Einschatzung des Alters in unserer Gesellschaft, der Jugendwahn verankert sich immer mehr. Versteht man Anti-Aging wortlich, so ist es letztlich ein sinnloser Kampf, da man den biologischen Prozess des Werdens und Vergehens nicht aufhalten oder umkehren kann. Die Anti-Aging-Euphorie der letzten Jahre bezieht sich in besonderem Masse auf eine strahlende, straffe, glatte Haut. Man verfolg das Ziel, moglichst lange jugendlich zu wirken, was nicht nur, aber doch uberwiegend die Frauen betrifft. Es werden weder grosse Anstrengungen noch finanzielle Opfer gescheut. In dieser Arbeit sollen deshalb Moglichkeiten und Grenzen von Anti-Aging-Produkten aufgezeigt werden. Wenngleich der Alterungsprozess Einfluss auf alle Organe des menschlichen Korpers hat, so wird es hier um das facettenreichste Organ des Menschen gehen: die Haut. Zum Verstandnis der vielen propagierten Anti-Aging-Massnahmen ist es erforderlich, zunachst den Aufbau der Haut und den Prozess des Alterns samt der damit verbundenen Hautveranderungen zu kennen. Neben diesen ausfuhrlichen Darstellungen zur Hautphysiologie und zur Hautalterung liegt der Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit auf den (dermato)kosmetischen Wirkstoffen und ihrer Anwendung. Anhand der Wirkstoffe und ihrem Einfluss auf kutane Stoffwechselvorgange werden die Moglichkeiten und Grenzen von Anti-Aging-Produkten beschrieben. Im zweiten Teil erfolgt eine empirische Ausarbeitung, um zu sehen, wie die Erwartungshaltung und der Wissensstand in der weiblichen Bevolkerung zum Altern, zu Spuren der Alterung und uber verschiedene

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medizin - Innere Medizin, Note: 2, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Institut fur Transfusionsmedizin), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Je 73 Hashimoto-Tyreoiditis(HT)-Patienten und Kontrollprobanden wurden auf das CD45-Expressionsmuster (EM) der Leukozyten und auf das Vorhandensein der C>G Transversion getestet. Zudem wurde die Phagozytoseaktivitat von 41 HT- und 42 Kontrollprobanden ermittelt. Ein variantes CD45RA wurde in beiden Kollektiven je einmal beobachtet. Die molekulargenetischen Untersuchungen bestatigten die Transversion an Position 77 des Exon A bei beiden Tragern des veranderten CD45RA-Musters. Das CD45RA-EM zeigte bei den Personen mit der Transversion im Vergleich zu den Individuen mit dem klassischen CD45RA-Muster folgende Veranderungen: Erhohte Lymphozytenzahl mit CD45RO /RA+- und CD45RC+-Markierung, sowie in beiden Leukozytenpopulationen gesteigerte Zahl CD45RO+/RA+ - und erniedrigte Mengen CD45RO+/RA -Zellen. Im Vergleich der HT- mit den Kontrollprobanden unter Ausschluss der gefundenen Punktmutationstrager ergaben sich signifikante Differenzen bzgl. der gesteigerten CD45RA- und CD45RC-Expression auf Lymphozyten, der reduzierten CD45RO+- und CD45RO+/RA -Lymphozytenzahl und einer gesenkten CD45RB-Expression auf Granulozyten im Kontrollkollektiv. Im Granulozytenfunktionstest wurde ein Transversionstrager den restlichen Kontroll- und HT-Probanden gegenubergestellt. Diese zeigte eine erhohte Phagozytoseaktivitat an den ersten beiden Messpunkten im Vergleich mit den beiden anderen Personengruppen. Zudem war hier eine signifikante Reduktion der Granulozytenaktivitat im Patientenkollektiv zu erkennen. Im weiteren Untersuchungsverlauf nahrten sich die Aktivitaten der Granulozyten in den Kollektiven an. Eine Assoziation zwischen der C G-Transversion und der HT besteht nicht. Die gefundenen Differenzen in der CD45RO- und CD45RA-Expression lassen sich sowohl durch die Transversion als auch durch die