Essays on Cystic Fibrosis

Description Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that causes inefficient osmosis into the alveoli causing the mucus to become heavy and thick. Due to this, people suffering from this disease have trouble removing dust and bacteria from their lungs and Trachea. Small hair strands in your throat, called cilia, waft upwards and out of your...

Abstract: Cystic fibrosis affects around 1 out of every 2000 population. Gene mutation in chlorine channel protein called cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is the main cause of cystic fibrosis. Mutation in CFTR restricts chlorine ion regulation across the membrane due to which ion gathers and block the nasal pathway. To regulate chlorine ions and...

Introduction: Cystic fibrosis is a serious inherited condition that mainly causes damage to the Respiratory and Digestive system from a young age. And with the time The lungs and respiratory damage will increase and may eventually stop working properly, and this is one pf the main cause of limiting average of life for cystic fibrosis...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary life-threatening disease, which causes damage to the digestive system and the lungs, eventually, limiting an individual’s ability to breathe over time. It is caused by a mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, which is responsible for the coding of the CFTR protein. The CFTR protein...

What is Cystic Fibrosis? Cystic fibrosis is an inherited life-threatening disorder that damages the lungs and digestive system which makes it difficult to breathe. Cystic fibrosis is about genetics, you can’t catch it. But if both your parents have the CF gene, there’s a one in four chance you’ll be born with the condition. (Cysticfibrosis.org.au,...

Introduction The aim of this report is to cover the prevalence, risk factors, current treatment options and prevention strategies of Cystic Fibrosis in Australia. Cystic Fibrosis is the most common life threatening, genetically inherited condition in children. It is caused by a mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, which causes the...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic condition that affects more than 10,400 people in the UK alone. Cystic fibrosis cannot be caught later in life, people are born with it and 1 in 25 of us carries the faulty gene without us knowing. (Cystic Fibrosis trust, 2018) Some of the effects cystic fibrosis can on...

The name of my disease is cystic fibrosis; it makes pimples in the pancreas and the course of action of wealth fibrous connective tissue in the lungs. Within organs which bear the most mischief due to this disease are the lungs and the pancreas regardless of the way that a grouping of various organs are...