The alarm didn’t go off, in the rush of the morning, the little one spilled the milk and needs changing, the car won’t start and the important meeting starts within 10 minutes! STRESS! Stress causes unconscious physical reactions in humans: Glucose is provided as prompt energy source, blood pressure rises to assure sufficient blood supply […]
Every year on April 7th, the WHO commemorates its foundation in 1948 with the World Health Day and dedicates a certain health topic of global importance to this day. This year, diabetes mellitus is in focus (“Beat diabetes”). The reason for this is the growing number of diabetes patients, especially in middle and low income countries.
Two children, Lisa and Tom, are tested for different food allergies with a skin test by an allergist at the same day, since both children complain about various symptoms such as oral prickling, rashes and nausea. In both cases, the allergy test indicates an obvious immune reaction against peanut extract – a diagnostic agent which
In May 2015, the first case of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was reported in Brazil. To date, the infectious disease has been primarily present in Asia and Africa, but since the beginning of 2015 it has spread across the Americas. ZIKV is transmitted by the same mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus) as the dengue and
Antibodies against double stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) are immunological indicators for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a severe rheumatic autoimmune disease. According to the recommendations of the American College of Rheumatology, their detection constitutes an important criterion for the diagnosis of the disease [1]. Among the commonly applied test systems, indirect immunofluorescence on the flagellate Crithidia luciliae
