Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes are used to code items, equipment, drugs, and supplies (such as wheelchairs, walkers, wound care dressings, IV nutrition or oxygen used in the home).
Answer:
abstinence
Explanation:
abstinence is literally not having sex. you can't have sex by not having sex.
Answer:
tunica intima (inner layer)
Explanation:
Walls of veins is composed of three layers, which are:
- A. Outer layer (tunica adventitia) is of connective tissue with the collagen fibers.
- B. Middle layer (tunica media) is of smooth muscle which are arranged circularly and the elastic fibers.
- <u>C.Inner layer (tunica intima) which consists of specialized simple squamous epithelium which are also known endothelium which lines all the blood vessels and endocardium of heart.</u>
Answer:
The white blood cells i.e. granulocytes and macrophages are specifically stimulated by GM-CSF in response to chemotherapy in cancer patients.
Explanation:
The colony stimulating factors (CSFs) are the regulators of granulocytes and macrophages in blood. The CSFs has the potential to regenerate the white blood cells damaged during chemotherapy. Thus, CSFs mobilize the stem cells to enhance the immune process and produce hematopoietic cells such as granulocytes, macrophages in cancer patients. The CSFs resemble hormones that are specifically targeted to produce blood cells in specified regions where the quantity of those cells is low. The CSFs belong to a group of regulatory factors also known as cytokines and does not produce only a single cell type but stimulates colonies of different blood cell types for any specific organ. Hematopoietic cells produced by CSF are step-wise and formation of blast colonies take place initially. Afterwards, the blast cells regenerate and differentiated into multiple progenitor cells consisting of granulocytes, monocytes, macrophages, eosinophills, erythroids, and lymphocytes. The progenitor cells in the granulocyte-macrophage lineage matures into neutrophilic granulocytes and macrophages.
Out of all types of CSF colonies, the Granulocyte-Macrophage (GM-CSF) colony is specially involved in regenerating immune responses in cancer patients. These cytokines stimulates the dendritic cell formation and produces dendritic activity against the cancerous cells. These GM-CSF colonies enhance the immune response of host against melanomas, tumors by reducing their growth and inducing remission. Hence, it can be said that granulocytes and macrophages are infection protective cells and elevates dangerously low levels of white blood cells in cancer patients following chemotherapy. The GM-CSF induction regenerates the bone marrow which is damaged and improves stem cells production.
