BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gerhard Domagk, Streptomycin, Taxus Brevifolia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

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Causes of death north america (2001) cause heart diseases cancer deaths. 163,538 chronic lower respiratory diseases accidents diabetes in uenza and pneumonia alzheimer"s disease. Over 75% of all cases occur after ave 55. Causes 570,000 deaths per year in north america (1500 per day) Pay attention when you hit 50-54 years of age. Change in the us death rates* by cause, 1950 & 2001. There is not so much death difference even though we had more modern technologies. A child has more chances to recovery than elderly. Lung cancer: it is a self in ected cause of cancer. Lung cancer: women smokes less prevalently compared to men do. In genera, they haven"t really change throughout years. Doesn"t really look so different if you"re not an expert. You have your own little parasite: tumour cells divide only on command (telomere) Normal cell growth is closely regulated: maximum of 50 cell divisions cells must be touching similar cells (tissue)