clinchem blog notes 30 b LAB LETTERS

Thursday morning, 1am:

I was researching about my blog topic. I was seriously reading something about endocrinology when all of the sudden there was this BIG BROWN COCKROACH (yuck!) that landed on my keyboard and I was like @#&%@#***!!!!! I almost fell down my chair. Can you even imagine what I looked like?

I took the insect spray, aimed at the cockroach and sprayed it hard as I could. At the back of my mind I was saying “DIE COCKROACH! DIE!” Sorry if it sounded too violent but I really can’t stand cockroaches when they are flying. I felt sorry for the cockroach though. I know it didn’t intend to scare me.

So any way back to my topic

This was supposed to be passed weeks ago but thanks to that 4-day seminar I attended, I wasn’t able to do it. I’m thankful I was given the chance to finish it.

I was thankful to that cockroach though, it made me give an idea what to write for the description of ENDOCRINOLOGY –the study of the endocrine system specifically the endocrine glands and the actions of hormones.

As soon as that cockroach landed on my keyboard, my body reacted as if it was a big emergency. Ever wonder how I ran so fast?

It is because of the hormone Epinephrine. Hormones are chemical messengers in the body which induces biologic processes. As a hormone, epinephrine mobilizes energy stores allowing greater work output. Epinephrine is not the only hormone present in the body. There are more hormones which are synthesized in other parts of the body (called the endocrine glands) which are vital to different body processes such as growth and metabolism.

Insecticide is probably the worst nightmare of that cockroach and I’m sure you know that it can also inflict toxic effects to humans too. TOXICOLOGY is the study of poisonous substances. The word TOXICOLOGY may be self explanatory but in the deep sense it is the science that deals with the identification and quantification of toxic substances, their biologic effects and toxic response as well as the treatment or detoxification methods. Toxic substances under this discipline do not only involve the well known alcohol, heavy metals and carbon monoxide but also overdose of therapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse.

In relation to drug abuse, the term DRUG TESTING was invented to detect the presence of a drug in a certain biological specimen such as example urine, hair, blood, sweat or saliva. When these drugs are ingested or taken into the body, the parent drug or its metabolites (break down forms) are excreted or deposited through the said specimens. Drug testing is significantly used to detect the presence of performance enhancing steroids or for prohibited drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin.

……….And after a very long time this write will finally be checked. And moreover I hope I gave a good knowledge on the backbone of CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 03 especially for the future MEDTECHS.

references:

M. Bishop; Clinical Chemistry: Principles, Procedures, Correlations

D. Calbreath; Clinical Chemistry: A Fundamental Textbook

A.P. Ciulla and D.C. Lehman; Sucess in CLinical Laboratory Science