Androgen receptor

Picture someone you know winning an Olympic Gold Medal and a month later it being stripped from them for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Performance-enhancing drugs (PED’s) have been around for centuries and used by many different sports and athletes. As the incentives grow bigger, athletes turn to PED’s more for helping them strive to be the absolute best at their position. In recent years more athletes have been suspended for the use of PED’s; from college to the pros,…

The process starts by taking the drug, either orally or by injection. The steroids travel through the bloodstream and make their way to the muscle tissue. The steroids come in contact with the muscle cells receiving dock. This is called an androgen receptor. From here, the steroid and the cell interact with each other, and recreate or simulate the protein synthesis, promoting cell growth and overall strength in the muscles. Steroids also can prevent fatigue/pain in muscles. Take a pitcher for…

The Prostate Gland: An Overview: Anatomy: The prostate gland is shaped as an inverted cone in which the apex is pointing downward, the base is referring upward, and the midgland is sandwiched in between. In an antro-posterior view, the gland lies with its long axis parallel to the anterior rectal wall. It is bordered superiorly by the bladder (ventrally) and the seminal vesicles (dorsally), and inferiorly by the urogenital diaphragm (Jung and Westphalen, 2012). The prostate is separated from…

3 Review of literature 3.1. Introduction Hyperlipidemia refers to the elevated level of lipids and cholesterol in the blood and the manifestations of different disorders of lipoprotein. Dyslipidemia also describes elevated Total Cholesterol (TC), Triglycerides (TG), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) or low levels of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) (Lucy, 1998). Human body has the mechanism of making normal cholesterol.The excess cholesterol, which comes from the food and may cause harm. High…

INTRODUCTION Diabetes is one of the disease that increase world widely. For understanding diabetes we must know about what is happens in our normal metabolism? The answer is that, the digestive tracts break down the carbohydrates into the simplest form glucose which enters into the blood stream. Insulin is produced by the organ called pancreas, which is situated behind the stomach. These organ contain lot of cells called β cells within the islet produce insulin. It is…