Disorders, functional

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Hepatic cirrhosis is an end stage process of hepatic inflammation characterised by lobular scarring, distortion of the hepatocellular architecture and disordered function, frequently with associated portal hypertension. 

It is therefore possible to calculate the K values over these intervals with different k values. The results for PET are shown on Figure 6. It can be ascertained, as Ruland has already shown for polyethylene, that starting from a disorder function with spherical symmetry, the plots of K vs. s(the upper limits of integration) can be reduced to a set of straight lines for the different k values. 

Myopathy is the term used broadly for affections of the skeletal musculature, in which the muscular symptoms in no way arise from disordered function of the central or peripheral nervous system. Within this definition are included, therefore, such widely differing conditions as the polymyositis syndrome, endocrine myopathies associated with thyroid gland disorders, and the muscular dystrophies. 

Acne results from disordered function of the pilosebaceous follicle whereby abnormal keratin and sebum (the production of which is androgen driven), form debris which plugs the mouth of the follicle. Propionibacterium acnes colonises the debris. Bacterial action releases inflammatory fatty acids from the sebum. 

S = d np,/dF I changing sign when positional disorder exceeds energetic disorder. Functionally, pCFF can be expressed as... 

The most universal waxd method to determine crystallinity was developed by the introduction of a disorder function D (140). 

The mechanisms by which pyrethroids alone are toxic are complex and become more complicated when they are co-formulated with piperonyl butoxide, an organ-ophosphorus insecticide, or both, as these compounds inhibit pyrethroid metabolism. The main effects of p3rethroids are on sodium and chloride channels. As a result, excitable (nerve and muscle) cells are the principal targets of pyrethroid toxicity, which is manifested as disordered function rather than structural damage. In that way, the major toxic effect of dermal exposure is paresthesia, supposable also due to hyperactivity of cutaneous sensory nerve fibers [12]. 

Considering their nutritional and biological properties, mushrooms and yeasts are promising candidates for functional food manufacturing, as well as ingredients in the healthy food formulations. Health benefits from mushrooms and yeasts as functional foods are considerable and involve the prevention of degenerative diseases as atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, as well as certain functional disorders. Functional foods were recently redefined as important sources in the prevention, management and treatment of chronic diseases of the modem age, and mushrooms and yeasts are well placed in this concept. 

Parkinsonism is associated with a number of degenerative changes in both the structure and the chemistry of the basal ganglia. The relationship between the symptoms of the disease and these changes is dependent upon what is the normal function in the extrapyramidal motor system of such substances as dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, and the melanins, as well as others such as acetylcholine whose levels appear to be normal in Parkinsonism. Nevertheless, normal levels do not exclude disordered function since dynamic systems can involve different rates of turnover with no apparent change in concentrations. Synaptic transmission in the central nervous system has been extensively reviewed [59-61] and only those factors relevant to Parkinsonism will be discussed here. 

It has also been shown in animal studies that joint deficiencies of iodine and vitamin A result in a significant enlargement of the thyroid which ultimately leads to disordered functions of the gland since vitamin A is required for the normal growth and metabolism of the columnar epithelial cells of the thyroid. 

The disorder function (D) resulting from thermal vibrations and the existence of defects in crystallites is known. 

It was shown that this disorder function can be written in the form... 

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