The walls of arteries consist of three layers - Name of the layer Position Types of cells/tissues present Tunica intima Inner layer Simple... View Article
Thrombokinase or Thromboplastin (TPL) is a complex found specifically in platelets. It is a mixture of tissue factors and phospholipids present... View Article
Whenever there is an injury to the blood vessel, it initiates a series of reactions in a rapid sequence. The first step towards this is... View Article
Injury to a blood vessel causes it to initiate a sequence of reactions, which are as follows - Vasoconstriction - contraction of smooth... View Article
Listed below are the main processes involved in Pharmacokinetics - Absorption - when drugs are released from formulation sites and enters the... View Article
Usually, veins carry oxygen-poor blood and arteries carry oxygenated blood. Most of the time, this holds good. But, in the case of pulmonary... View Article
The pulmonary veins and umbilical veins. The umbilical vein carries nutrient-rich, oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. The... View Article
The inferior vena cava and superior vena cava are the largest veins in the body. The inferior cava vein collects all the blood from the body... View Article
The heart is connected with these main blood vessels - The superior and inferior vena cava - get oxygen-poor blood from the body into the... View Article
Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels. They reduce the space or volume in the affected blood vessels. It is a result of muscular... View Article
Cholecystokinin are hormones produced in the I-cells lining the duodenum. It is a gut hormone which is secreted after each meal and seemingly... View Article
Yes, Spider is an invertebrate. Spiders possess an exoskeleton comprising a cuticle constituting chitin. Its body is made of two main parts -... View Article
Yes, Golgi apparatus does help in protein synthesis. Golgi apparatus is one of the key organelles required for the synthesis of proteins. The... View Article
Lenticels in plants are tiny raised pores, typically elliptical. They develop from woody stems when the epidermis is substituted by the bark or... View Article
Oxidative phosphorylation is where ATP is formed from electron transport chains. ATP synthase is considered to be a part of the electron... View Article
Through the process of oxidative phosphorylation, ATP is formed from electron transport chains. The process occurs in mitochondria which has an... View Article
Oxidative phosphorylation is where ATP is formed from electron transport chains. The electrons are carried by NADH + H+ and FADH2 are channelized... View Article
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is typically released by the pituitary responding to the sensors which detect a decrease in the blood volume or a rise... View Article